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.
Deeper Into Palladium
Back on September 10th, I wrote a post proclaiming my commitment to hold on to my palladium (by way of PALL) for the long-haul. Well, that solemn vow lasted all of two days, as I took profits on the entire position on the 12th. Good thing, too, considering what happened next.
Future of Mineral Exploration
Mineral Exploration: 18 years in the desert, the times they are a changin’
[edit] Also reference the September 3 article Junior Mining Basket Case.
The area of mineral exploration has long been cast aside. Whether precious (Gold, Silver) or more economically strategic (Rare Earth, Platinum/Palladium, Uranium, Copper and Nickel, etc.). This area has long been ignored in favor of sexier stuff over any given period during those 18 years. You know, Cloud/SaaS, Solar/EV and most recently, AI. The sexy stuff driven to over-valuation by rolling emotional hysterias. In other words, the stock market.
Gold stocks had been such a cast aside area. Producers, royalties, maturing developers of mines. The whole world appears to be getting in on the play now. But it’s got a lot further to go pending the next real correction. Now, the cat (the price of the HUI Gold Bugs Index) is out of the bag. My long-held target of 500 is history, at least so far on this move.
(more…)Fakeout, Not Breakout
My only options position right now is puts on DIA, so naturally I watch the /YM futures closely. They were down a little pre-open, but the moment the bell rang, they exploded higher for No Particular Reason ™. Just as suddenly, they did a hairpin turn south and plunged triple digits.
Everyone’s on edge about tomorrow’s absolutely meaningless interest rate drop, which I think is going to be one of the “Buy the Rumor/Sell the News” events of all time.
An Act of Defiance
Well, here we are again. Every morning, it’s the same thing: all the equity futures up fractionally (which, over time, has led to a literal 900% run-up in the S&P 500 since 2008) and at lifetime highs, in spite of every scrap of fundamental data saying that valuations are in la-la land.
