You don’t have to be a crypto “investor” to lose money. You can do so with the convenience of your existing brokerage account. Here are some recent crypto-dependent gemstones that are equities:
Crypto Crap
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.
Steady Defiance
One of the cleanest short ideas offered this autumn has been Defi Development (DFDV) which was sporting a perfect right triangle top. Day after day, down she goes!
Major Ethereum Resistance
Will 98k Happen After All?
My line in the sand for Bitcoin $BTC has been $98,000, give or take a few hundred bucks. It has made lunges in that direction, but so far it has fallen short. In a way, it would be a relief for it to have one final rally, because I think that would mark the moment in time when assets in general could take a serious end-of-2025 drubbing.
Sornette LLPL
Over the weekend, Xerxes did a premium post about bitcoin, and in the comments section, The Wizard made mention of something I had never heard of called the Sornette LLPL. I did a bit of poking around and thought I’d share some information for everyone’s mutual benefit.
“Sornette LLPL power law ascent” refers to the work of Swiss geophysicist and financial economist Didier Sornette, who developed the Log-Periodic Power Law (LPPL) model to diagnose and predict financial bubbles and subsequent market crashes. The “power law ascent” is a key characteristic of the LPPL model, describing the faster-than-exponential growth in asset prices leading up to a critical point (the peak or crash time).
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