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.

I Was There

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I don’t get out much. There are a few reasons for this, but the main one is that I don’t need to. I like my life. I like my work. I like my home. I don’t feel the need to distract myself with sporting events, concerts, and the like. In fact, I hate crowds, and I can’t stand the nuisances of going to some big-ass event with the long lines, the securities, and the strangers. No thank you.

I made an exception during the weekend, because a dear friend of mine invited me to join a couple of his buddies to see Dave Chapelle and Chris Rock. The tickets were $340 (and they were the cheap seats!!) but I jumped at the chance.

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SBF Testimony Drinking Game

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One tidbit of news today is that man-child Samuel Bankman-Fried has apparently agreed to testify in front of Congress next Tuesday. Like many of you, I hadn’t really even heard of this guy until about five weeks ago, and now he’s the best-known crypto figure in the world. I mean, let’s put it this way – – when Michael Saylor comes across as the prudent and conservative sage of a particular industry, you know something is seriously screwed up. In any event, I’ve listened to enough of SBF’s interviews (which he has doled out over the past few weeks at the rate of about one every seven minutes) to catch on to his patterns. I’d like to offer below a fun little drinking game so you can more fully participate in the Congressional event. With apologies to your liver………..

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Twelve Inch Rules

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Honestly, I know you mean well. I tend to assume good intentions on the part of any person. But I’ve just got to say something about some of the aphorisms that are repeatedly offered here with respect to trading. Either:

  1. They are brilliant nuggets of wisdom which I am simply too thick to understand (and this is not false modesty; I absolutely accept that I might be too stupid to “get it”), or
  2. They are absurd bromides which sound pithy but in fact are pointless.

The ones that have come up again and again that prompted this post are:

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