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.

Diddly Do

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My best position right now, with a triple-digit percentage return from just a few days ago, is PDD, which I suggested shorting in the face of China-mania. The arrow marks the post. I am maintaining the position until we reach the gap.

My sassy declaration in that post that “This unhinged, ridiculous, idiotic Chinese rally insanity IS going to end” seems to have worked out nicely. My only stupidity was closing my JD and YUMC positions too early. Profitably, yes, but the bigger profits were yet to come.

AMD Success

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It’s nice to see a trade work out. It’s nicer to know that paying subscribers were the ones who got it. And it’s nicest still when it works out almost immediately.

Just yesterday, I did this premium post in which I pointed out the nearly perfect gap-seal for AMD. I went on to say, “I am long January $175 puts. It also helps that the P/E ratio on this sucker is literally measured in the hundreds. This is preposterously overvalued.” Even though semiconductors were fairly strong all day, AMD was a notable exception.

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Cooking with Pooh

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The Chinese stock market has blasted higher by 40% in just a few trading sessions, thanks to the Communist Dictatorship, desperate to cling to power until the end of time, continuing to spray trillions of yuan all over the backs of Chinese “investors” who were growing weary of losing money. In the end, it’ll end in catastrophe, but so far, it is resulting in an unprecedented rally.

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