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.

Weirdly Mellow

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For all the anxiety leading up until today (I probably woke up ten times last night to see what time it was), it has been incredibly mellow. I have:

  1. Closed out my entire SPY puts position for a respectable 118% overnight profit;
  2. Reduced time risk by selling my one and only “earlier than June expiration” position, the DIA puts
  3. Trimmed a few options to reduce risk

As for my dozens of little equity shorts, I have, as usual, merely examined them one by one and tightened up stop-loss levels where appropriate, which was in many cases.

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Dreading the End

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As a person who is constitutional incapable of actually enjoying a moment, I’m already dreading when this amazing, exciting, fantastic market is going to shift back to its old annoying ways. Trust me, this is the kind of market I LIVE for, and since I’m having an absolute ball with it, a voice in the back of my head is warning me that some dillweed is going to spoil the party somehow or another. It always happens.

Look, all I ask for at this point is that things keep falling to pieces until at least Monday’s open. The reason is that – -and this is TOTALLY uncharacteristic of me – – I bought a ton of $575 SPY puts that expire on Monday. Again, I never do this kind of thing, but as of this moment I’m looking at a 300% profit on them, and I’ll be pissed beyond measure if I wake up and find out that, I dunno, Trump has TACO’d out somehow and stopped the bleeding. As I stand here now, however, the market is falling to pieces, and crucial support has been broken.

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