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.

Forty-Six Thousand!

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Strange post title, eh? It’s because this is the 46,000th post on the Slope of Hope.

But, Tim, you may be heard to say, you’ve said there are over 50,000 posts! Well, that’s true, my officious friend, but in the early days of Slope I ran this site on a couple of different platforms (Blogger and Typepad, if memory serves) so those aren’t included. In any case, hoorah, here we are, and on a morning in which (thank God) the /ES rallied and then got repelled. Trust me, this was important.

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Good Day Thus Far

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Yesterday was odd, because the market was broadly lower, but my own 100% short portfolio only went up a fraction of a percent. Today is better, because once again the market is broadly lower but my all-short portfolio is down more than the market is up, which is obviously my goal.

Here are all my shorts from the watch list page, and the handful of green positions are actually NEW shorts acquired earlier at higher prices. 100% of my positions are profitable.

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