Astronauts onboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule approach the International Space Station on May 31st (photo via SpaceX).
(more…)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.
When To Hedge With Puts Versus Collars
Still image from TikTok user @robinhoodkid’s video explaining call options. Short call options are one leg of a collar.
(more…)New Year’s Eve Flex
From Meme to Twink
Precisely a month ago, Palantir, the creepy data-gathering firm founded by the ever-so-weird Alex Karp, was the absolutely darling of /wsb-land. If anyone was bold enough, the brilliant move would have been to sell OTM puts left, right, and sideways, because the assumption was PLTR was going to go up 15% every day until the end of time. The fanboys at WSB had their best kneepads on. It was pathetic. Suffice it to say that PLTR has utterly flamed out into nothing-ville.
“Elon Musk Should Be Afraid”
Graphic illustrating what Tesla’s (TSLA) weighting would be in the S&P 500: between that of Google parent Alphabet (GOOG), (GOOGL) and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), (BRK.A). Image via Bloomberg Quicktake.
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