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.

Fibby Fibby Bang Bang

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How relieved I am to have had the good sense to detect that, considering how a certain person was being a total douchenozzle privately this weekend, it meant something bad was coming. Yeah, I’m a chartist, but I’m also partly human. I can read people. TSLA is getting absolutely bombed, and I’m delighted my family can stand at a safe distance and watch the carnage. Those Fibonaccis have been working beautifully for MONTHS.

Wh-UPS

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From our “Try Not to Overthink Things” department, I offer you the following.

Yesterday, based upon the enormous and well-formed topping pattern in UPS, I decided to buy October $150 puts. I then noticed yesterday that UPS reported earnings this morning (if you need some help with the relationship between yesterday and today, I direct you to Ms. Harris), and that made me a little nervous, so I trimmed back my position a bit out of nothing but cowardice.

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