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.

Goldfingered

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After the past couple of weeks of the market being beaten down due to Middle East tensions, the fact that things have simmered down is all that it took to cause a rally. I welcome the rally, and I hope it’s a huge one, but I’ve got to say a couple of things: (a) I fear the rally going take a long while, which is a drag for an impatient chap like me sitting on buying power (b) I’m surprised how utterly FEEBLE the rally is right now, with just a little bounce taking place, indistinguishable from all the others that formed during the midst of the selloff itself. It’s pathetic, bulls!

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2021’s Nvidia

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If you want to see what a stock looks like when it falls out of favor, look no farther than Tesla. In late 2021, this stock could do no wrong. Elon was infallible. TSLA did nothing but go up.

Lately? Not so much. It is worth about 40% what it used to be worth. Worse yet, it is simply hammering out a series of price levels against which it will likely not rise, the latest of which are these price gaps. And keep in mind, this is in the context of the most over-inflated, fake, government-induced joke of a stock market in the history of the human race.

ETF Theme: Exhaustion

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Preface to all posts: Instead of my typical ETF videos over the weekend, I went through all the charts and put them into certain groupings. In this post, I cover the ETFs that seemed appropriate for the grouping mentioned in this post's title.

This theme is about financial instruments which are, for lack of a better term, tired. Starting with commodities, you can see the pink zone creating a top (at a glacial pace) and then a languorous range, tinted in green.

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