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Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Eurozone Be Broken
It’s clear that the insipid October 13th-February 2nd counter-trend rally is busted, and worldwide stocks have totally stalled out as bulls the world over pray to whatever false gods they worship that equities soar to new highs for no reason in particular.
Philippines is Finally #1 in Something
Global Inflation
Today is going to be pretty much a madhouse for me since I’m packing up and heading home. Thus, I’m going to have to be a good-for-nothing bum and throw an infographic at you to sate you for quite a few hours. Once I’m at the airport, I’ll be a good boy again.
Is China’s Drop Over?
One of the better sectors in the past couple of weeks for me in this horrid market has been China. I stupidly dumped my FXI puts a couple of weeks ago, only to see them ascend nearly 80% in value, but I at least held on to BIDU, BABA, and JD puts. My initial target price on FXI was 29.54, and both yesterday and today we came within 30 cents of that level. I’m getting nervous about the three individual equity puts I’ve got, but that’s badly exacerbated by the clown-raping that’s been happening across the board. Suffice it to say I’ve got an itchy trigger finger on these three Chinese position, in spite of them having literally months left until they expire.
