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.

Dialing Up the Censorship

By -

Forget the charts. Forget the market. Set aside the P & L. Let’s talk about censorship.

In my experience as the proprietor of this little corner of the web, I have found there are about three levels of push-back that I receive.

The first, rarest level is from Slopers themselves. This is an extremely liberal (in the classic sense) and tolerant bunch. It’s a pretty free-wheeling place here on Slope. As such, if there is ever a time when I get scolded by folks here, I know I’ve seriously crossed the line.

I actually think it’s only happened once, which is when I – – heaven help me – – urinated on a giant poster of Janet Yellen and posted the video. For some peculiar reason, a few people found this in bad taste, and I quickly deleted the post. In the nearly 17 years of Slope’s existence, I think that’s the only time that I’ve censored myself, after I realized that, OK, yeah, I guess there ARE limits. (Hey, it could have been worse.)

(more…)

A Clean Conscience

By -

I just have a brief, funny anecdote to share. As some of you know, I do a show every weekday on tastytrade called Trading Charts with Tim Knight. This is a Zoom-based show, and normally I share a very specific tab in Chrome, with a restricted zone that is shared with everyone.

Today, for the first time in the ten years I’ve done the show, I accidentally did FULL SCREEN. Now, if I were a different kind of person (and had different kinds of content tucked away on my screen) this could have been a true Jeff Tobin moment. Instead, people got an unexpected view into how boring I am: on my screen was just a list of symbols, a few WordPress tabs, and a video. And that video was………John Mulany comedy. Let’s just say sometimes clean living has its unexpected benefits!

fullscreen