Slope of Hope with Tim Knight

Slope of Hope is purely for marketing

Tim Knight is constantly short and claims to be between 65-75% short every day. He has done so since past years and is always bearish. It is obvious to any trader that Tim Knight would have lost a bundle if he really executes his bearish views.

Tim Knight hardly writes about his trades in real time nor prior his trades. His trades are always commented after the fact and end of day. During the day he searches for stocks that do have a negative day and he will post those charts on Slope of Hope.

Any reader should be aware that Tim Knight is more interested in marketing his website. He is begging for advertising clicks and lately begging for users to subscribe to his site.

If indeed his trading is profitable, he would not beg for income sources on his site.

Any user on his site questioning the trades and approach of Tim Knight will be immediately banned to avoid any negative comments that could effect his income source.

Tim Knight touts how many followers he has on Twitter being evidence that this person has a rather large Ego.

The swear words he is using in the comment section when the market goes against him and usually it does, is rather the vocabulary of an elementary school student.

I doubt that he runs a hedge fund as he advertises and if he did, he must have lost a lot of his and his clients money. There is hardly any hedge fund that has only short positions. This fact alone is proof that Tim Knight is fooling his readers pretending he is trading with real money.

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Don't waste Time

This blog is a Zero Hedge knock off who always talk about apocalypse and market crash. Tim Knight keeps shorting strong sectors like gold all the way from 800 to 1800 and then starts celebrating like he is a genius when gold goes down 200. My cycle tells me to short gold at 1800 unlike Tim Knight. Tim Knight did not short banks or solar stocks or Euro at all, in last two years. Problem with him is that he thinks every chart is 2008. He needs 2008 to happen to make money in market. I think he is paper trader. I use his site as contrary indicator.

Only value in the site is Market Sniper who stopped visiting and now has his own site and Heavenskrow.

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Snake Oil

Makings for a good trade are A) to know what's going on short-, medium- and long term and B) to know where the tricky s/r levels are. With this kind of knowledge a savvy trader can make money.

I don't think Slope provides any help and I don't quite understand why some guys seem to like the blog... If you're in this business to make money it's just a waste of time.

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total crap...

I feel sorry for this guy. He has no clue whats going on.

I would love to see how much money he looses every year. He talks with such confidence but does be so far out.

According to himseld he is always on the righ side of the move.

Be careful he is tottally useless.;

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How to be Biased and Lose Money

I would strongly advise people to not take trading advice from this blog or its commentators. My account has taken losses following Tim Knight's trades and bearish bias. As a user of ProphetCharts, I made the mistake of believing Tim Knight was a serious and experienced market professional.

Tim is essentially a diehard permabear who manipulates charts to show his readers that we are on the verge of another crash. I think Tim serves his readers with bearish news and interpretations as it is what keeps his view count and ad clicks turning. Listening to Tim, kept me short for much of this rally. I do take responsibility.

Tim is clearly very intelligent, so I don't think he believes in the drivel he writes and instead manufactures material to suit his readers' tastes and keep them distracted from the fact that he has been consistently bearish during a 100%+ rally in all major indexes. He fans their hopes with enigmatic predictions of Dow 6000 in the future and similar dire predictions. If technicals fail him, he becomes a fundamentalist, when fundamentals fail, he becomes a currency expert, when that fails he becomes a monetary expert.

The one part I initially appreciated about Slope of Hope was Tim's honesty about his wins and losses. However, he seems to have abandoned this approach as his band of readers believe whatever he says. Its normal after an up day for Tim to talk about his longs even though the day before he will have been 90% short. Of course, on down days he will ignore his longs and talk about his shorts. He has to keep up the illusion of a successful trader or people will stop visiting his blog.

Other than Tim's deception towards readers, the other disturbing part is his glee in bad employment reports, poor corporate profits, and losses taken by others. I believe its a reflection of a broken spirit, abysmal trading record, and bad childhood and/or family life. Any day, the market is down he amateurishly taunts the bulls with vulgar language, all the while he comically claims to be a hedge fund manager in between begging readers to click ads.

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Bearish Bias

This guy is way too bearish. He also has too much of an ego. Maybe a good blog if you are looking for some shorts, as he will share a huge list with you.. Great site if you know you are headed for a crash.

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Biased- and now full of ZH fans

Never gleaned much at all from SOH, tho I do respect TK.

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Good but Cluttered

I wish i could filter it just down to the stuff tim writes because i think his style his most similar to mine and I dont really like the other posters. That said I love the friday bar gimmick and the posting of ideas he does occasionally on the blog. I understand that the commenters are extremely active, though I do not participate myself. If youre in the market and need a contrarion opinion now and then to keep you sane that isnt doom and gloom like zerohedge, definitely worth stopping by.

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Hope is all there is

The blog is for entertainment only and does not represent anything a trader is looking for.

Tim Knight has plenty of guest writers and one of his old time writers is facesincabs.

Like Tim, his guest writer facesincabs has been bearish for a very long time. Tim should be more critical with his guest writers or better write all articles himself otherwise it becomes more a joke of a blog.

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Blog for entertainment purpose only

Tim Knight appears to be a kind person but his trading capabilities are lacking. He is very emotional and bias. I would not recommend to anyone following his trading approach.

Writing a book and trading are two different worlds. He certainly is better in doing other than trading.

The blog is entertaining and some sort of fun. There is a come and go on this blog and heated discussions as bears or his followers have been whacked. Surely some following him blew up their account. Their fault and not his fault as no trader should blindly follow anybody.

Most bears on this blog have disappeared.

Anybody searching for trading advice on this blog should avoid it. There are far better ones available.

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