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.

Affirm Done

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Well, once again, here on ostensibly perma-bearish Slope, I had evidence of offering up a long idea that, in a matter of weeks, doubled in price. I’m referring to Affirm Holdings (AFRM) which, last month, I wrote this post pointing out the completion of its bullish pattern. I’ll follow this up by saying I think this 100% pop is pretty much all the potential I think this pattern has.

PLEASE NOTE I composed this post before today’s “micro crash“, and considering how AFRM got nuked, yeah, I was spot-on both up and down on this one.

Olive Oil

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My ceaselessly mentioned bearish ideas on energy, even short-term (like this morning) continue to do well. I see Exxon is pathetically (and, in a perfect world, criminally) screaming about how they’re going to buy back tens of billions in their own stock, which is the ultimate form of self-dealing scheming. It isn’t helping. The energy market is recognizing how dead the economy is going to be next year.


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