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.

Live News Girls

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The market continues to erode, blessed as we are by the most corrupt, inept, and idiotic government of the past ten thousand years. For myself, I continue to tend to my 50 (!!!!!!!!!) bearish positions by making appropriate chart-based stops and sizing adjustments. The beautiful thing about today is the new gaps that have been formed between yesterday’s lows and today’s highs.

Just as I predicted, and just as God intended.

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Oracle Gap Fill

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Since last September Oracle lost most – – yes, the majority!! – – of its market cap. I don’t tend to pay the stock much mind, but after last night’s earnings report sent it ripping higher today, I gave it a peek. I was intrigued to see that it beautifully closed its price gap. Since the long-term prospects for this bloated old company are so grim, I decided to short it with a stop just above the aforementioned price gap.