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.

Professor Farnsworth’s Market

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Well, folks, this is what you get what a market is absolutely priced for perfection until the year 3295. You can have company after company announce blow-your-tits-off amazing earnings and prospects, have the stock briefly skyrocket, and then vomit all over its lapels. I didn’t have to dig for obscure examples this afternoon. Allow me to share these tiny, no-name companies with you…………

Microsoft:

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Never Argue With Price

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For when it comes to trading the financial markets price is the ultimate arbiter of truth. Period. We can whinge and whine all we want about what the market ‘should be doing’ based on a laundry list of technical evidence suggesting that it is ‘overbought’. But in the end, the market will simply do what it wants to do. And when it wants to go up – we aim high – especially during a bull market.

So as you may recall from my previous update I keep seeing quite a few alarm signs flashing hot red, one in particular is excessive SKEW across SPX and SPY options. But then there’s this:

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