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.
Hellman’s Malaise
The market is bored with itself. Declining cases. So what? Stimulus checks on the way? Big deal! It’s heard it all at this point. And there’s only so long that All Assets can Go Up just For The Sake of Going Up. Malaise is setting in, and it is reflected in the NQ recently.
Silver: This Is Awkward
Damn. We’re Bullish On Silver Again
Well, this is awkward. Let’s drop the royal “we” for this post. I, David Pinsen, the founder of Portfolio Armor, called silver “The Family Circus of investments” a few days ago. That was an allusion to this scene in the 1999 movie Go where one character explains why he hates the comic strip The Family Circus.
Rubber Balls & Liquor
Silver Isn’t The Next GameStop
We’re Bullish On SLV
Let’s get this out of the way, before we’re accused of being silver bears: we’ve been bullish on the iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) for months. Each trading day, we rank all the securities in our universe by our estimate of their potential returns over the next six months. We base that on our analysis of their past returns as well as options market sentiment on them. We broke down this analysis for SLV in December (Why-Oh Silver). SLV was one of our top ten names in our most recently completed top names cohort, the July 30th one.
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