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.

Tres Ordinaire

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Would you be interested in buying an alarm clock which wakes you up with Swiss-like accuracy every 90 minutes all through the night? I call it Mishka. Let me know.

I appreciate everyone’s feedback on the new trading diary. We’ve already made fixes and improvements based on your feedback. I’ll obviously keep you posted as we flesh this product out more. Please keep using it and ping me with any issues, since I think we’ve cleared the board at this point.

As for the markets, I think BTC sums it up best: after the whole Venezuela thing (which already feels like a month ago), the lunkheads were all scurrying around with their typical “WE ARE SO BACK” nonsense, only to see prices hit resistance (again) and fall (again). We’re back in the eighty-thousands.

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Sailors Take Warning

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We’ve raised babies into adulthood here in Knight Manor, but it’s been a long time since I’ve been awakened every 90 minutes or so by a needful youngster. With little Mishka in our lives, I’ve reacquainted myself with how easily I can wake up and go back to sleep, and miserable as it is, I’ll gladly take being up multiple times a night in exchange for the seeing the joy during the daytime. It’s worth it, but forgive me if my posts aren’t coming out at 5 in the morning these days like the before-time.

It hardly matters anyway. For the first time all year, there was a little red on the screen, but in short order that was wiped clean, including on the /ES:

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Three Days In

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We’re just three trading days into 2026, and I gotta tell ya, I am having zero fun so far. Zilch! No one but me should care, but I’ve been all thumbs so far this year. The only “trade” that is working for me is my cache of silver and gold bullion, and the only reason I’ve been smart enough to hold on to that is because it’s too clumsy and inconvenient to get rid of it. Otherwise, I’ve been moping all year long.

I’m also potentially even more mopey since the /NQ is potentially configured for a breakout (since, ya know, it’s so cheap and all). Given this maelstrom, I have over the course of the past week plunged from 37 positions to only 18, and with only 60% exposure right now. Yuck.

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