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.

Fantasy Up, Reality Down

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I believed that – – and wrote – -that Trump would win the election for most of 2024. However, I didn’t think it would be a blowout win. I figured he’d lose the popular vote and win the Electoral College. Instead, it was almost a Reagan-level victory. Popular vote: won. Electoral College: won. Senate: won. House: won. Supreme Court: majority.

With all of that, Bitcoin has been celebrating like mad, up $30,000 over the past ten weeks and up over $10,000 since last Monday. It got within spitting distance of $83,000 last night.

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Soarin’ Silver

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Well, there I go again. Great chartist. Crummy trader.

My thesis, as I mentioned every 12 minutes, is LONG precious metals (silver, specifically) and SHORT equities. That actually, based on my picks, has been working out just dandy. Yesterday morning, prompted by yet another pop in silver, I decided to take profits and retain only a partial “let’s see how things go” position. Well, the way things “went” has been to continue zipping higher, as I predicted:

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