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slopechart_EWA.jpg
Australia ETF: 33% Financials, 25% Materials, 9% Healthcare, 10% Consumer Discretionary/Staples
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slopechart_$DJUSST.jpg
slopechart_$DJUSST.jpg
Iron & Steel Index at pre-GFC levels. Build Back Better?
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slopechart_$VALUG.jpg
Value Line Geometric Index
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Redefining 60/40 Portfolios | Crescat Capital
Redefining 60/40 Portfolios | Crescat Capital
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slopechart_RGLD.jpg
slopechart_RGLD.jpg
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Gold: A Far Superior Alternative | Crescat Capital
Gold: A Far Superior Alternative | Crescat Capital
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slopechart_MDY.jpg
slopechart_MDY.jpg
Mid Caps are still lagging - 8% below all-time high
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slopechart_DIA.jpg
slopechart_DIA.jpg
Diamonds sit right on trendline
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slopechart_NTCT.jpg
Possible handle forming for the Netscout Systems, a small-cap high tech commercial, governmental, and telecommunicati...
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slopechart_$RUT.jpg
slopechart_$RUT.jpg
The Russell 2000 uptrend is tested
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slopechart_TIP.jpg
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Inflation protected U.S. Treasury bonds hit a new high
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slopechart_$OEX.jpg
slopechart_$OEX.jpg
The S&P 100 is still below the trendline from the Christmas Eve 2018 bottom.
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slopechart_AUY.jpg
slopechart_AUY.jpg
Yamana Gold is close to breaking out.
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slopechart_DIA.jpg
slopechart_DIA.jpg
Diamonds on the edge
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slopechart_DIA.jpg
slopechart_DIA.jpg
The month of June so far for the Dow Industrials at 5 minute intervals. Today came close to an upside breakout.
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slopechart_FR:RAILFRTCARLOADS.jpg
slopechart_FR:RAILFRTCARLOADS.jpg
Rail Freight Carloads (non-seasonally adjusted) fell off a cliff as of April 1, 2020.
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slopechart_CHIQ.jpg
slopechart_CHIQ.jpg
China consumer discretionary ETF at an all-time high.
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slopechart_FR:MCUMFN.jpg
slopechart_FR:MCUMFN.jpg
Monthly manufacturing capacity utilization. Just another "V" recovery like 3 of the last five recessions?
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slopechart_VGK.jpg
slopechart_VGK.jpg
Vanguard Europe large-cap ETF (VGK) fills the gap and sits right at the broken trend line.
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slopechart_IWM/SPY.jpg
slopechart_IWM/SPY.jpg
Small Caps vs. Large Caps - Maybe this ratio will bottom just in time for the election.
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slopechart_PSP.jpg
Private Equity ETF yields 10%
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slopechart_IWO/IWN.jpg
slopechart_IWO/IWN.jpg
Growth vs. Value ETFs. I see a slow grind higher for growth stocks relative to value stocks until the end of Octo...
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slopechart_$RUT.jpg
slopechart_$RUT.jpg
As good a place as any to stop, I guess.
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slopechart_XLF/FR:DTWEXBGS.jpg
slopechart_XLF/FR:DTWEXBGS.jpg
Here's an odd look at the financials ETF (XLF) plotted against the U.S. Trade-Weighted Dollar.
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slopechart_GLD/FR:DTWEXBGS.jpg
slopechart_GLD/FR:DTWEXBGS.jpg
A variation on paper gold vs. paper currency: This is gold, real or imagined held by GLD vs. the trade-weighted U...
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The Long Finger of Doom
The Long Finger of Doom
The Dow since 1900. I like how this pitchfork shows the last 25 years, The red oval is a wild-ass guess on a bea...
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slopechart_MDY.jpg
slopechart_MDY.jpg
Mid Caps ETF is still a little shy of regaining the red trendline from 2009.
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slopechart_GIS.jpg
slopechart_GIS.jpg
Boring consumer staples. Let's see if a handle forms on this cup.
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slopechart_$UTIL.jpg
slopechart_$UTIL.jpg
Utilities Index tap 38% retracement and might pop higher in the never-ending quest for yield.
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slopechart_CHIQ.jpg
slopechart_CHIQ.jpg
Chinese consumer discretionary ETF. Thinly traded - 75K shares per day.
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slopechart_$TRAN.jpg
slopechart_$TRAN.jpg
Transportation Index has spent most of the last 3 months in the upper half of a possible bear flag. The green tre...
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slopechart_GEO.jpg
slopechart_GEO.jpg
Prison REIT yields 16%. Green trendline starts on 12/18/2000 @ 59 cents
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slopechart_AAXN.jpg
Body cams and tasers
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slopechart_MRCY.jpg
This could be a monster in defense sub systems.
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slopechart_$INDU.jpg
Punk ass rally on Industrials still falls short of the purple middle line of an Andrews Pitchfork that begins on 0...
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slopechart_WBA.jpg
slopechart_WBA.jpg
Long term Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
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slopechart_WBA.jpg
Vitamin C for me with 1 minute matching VWAP.
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slopechart_XLF/SPY.jpg
slopechart_XLF/SPY.jpg
Financials as a fraction of the S&P 500. Brutal stuff. Special thanks to Mr. Dubious.
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slopechart_BRK.B.jpg
Grandpa Munster is probably toast. Apologies to Bill Maher and Senator John McCain.
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slopechart_PHO.jpg
Water, water, everywhere...
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slopechart_PBD.jpg
Clean Energy ETF. https://www.invesco.com/us/financial-products/etfs/product-detail?productId=PBD
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slopechart_GDX/XME.jpg
slopechart_GDX/XME.jpg
Mining and metals vs. Precious Metals.
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slopechart_$INDU.jpg
slopechart_$INDU.jpg
Dow Jones Industrials tapped out at horizontal red triangle resistance. Purple line is the middle of the pitchfor...
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slopechart_/CME_RR.jpg
slopechart_/CME_RR.jpg
The price of rice.
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slopechart_IWM.jpg
slopechart_IWM.jpg
Russell 2K still squeezed in this triangle
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slopechart_EWM.jpg
Malaysia ETF massive top. https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239669/ishares-msci-malaysia-etf?cid=ppc:ishares_us...
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slopechart_VTI.jpg
Big picture total stock market ETF: VTI
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slopechart_VTI.jpg
Dead nuts on the red trendline for total market ETF: VTI
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slopechart_OZK.jpg
slopechart_OZK.jpg
Boy, you got a purty mouth. (Yes, I know the book deals with the nice folks in Northern Georgia, but never let th...
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slopechart_EWN.jpg
slopechart_EWN.jpg
Dutch Beatdown?
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slopechart_GSKY.jpg
slopechart_GSKY.jpg
It's all green skies ahead
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slopechart_EWJ.jpg
Japan ETF rejected at trendline
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slopechart_FR:DTWEXBGS.jpg
slopechart_FR:DTWEXBGS.jpg
U.S. Trade-Weighted Dollar. Target around 131.
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slopechart_/NQ.jpg
slopechart_/NQ.jpg
The orange rectangle highlights a chart pattern known as a throwover.
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Above Average! – Slope of Hope
Above Average! – Slope of Hope
Sometimes I use Arithmetic instead of Mathematics
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slopechart_PINS.jpg
slopechart_PINS.jpg
I know a wonderful woman
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slopechart_DBX.jpg
slopechart_DBX.jpg
I know another guy
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slopechart_SPOT.jpg
slopechart_SPOT.jpg
I know a guy
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slopechart_$SPX.jpg
slopechart_$SPX.jpg
The last 12 trading days of mischief in the S&P 500 Index are highlighted within the purple oval. I find it interest...
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slopechart_$OEX.jpg
slopechart_$OEX.jpg
Channels within Channels: Today's bounce in the S&P 100 (highlighted by the cyan oval) off the bottom of the pu...
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The Long Finger of Doom
The Long Finger of Doom
Follow the money as it sails for any port in a storm.
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slopechart_USO.jpg
slopechart_USO.jpg
The last 2 days in USO. Amethyst and Emerald
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slopechart_USO.jpg
Today's action in USO in one minute increments: The slyphlike orange rectangle represents, in theory, the headlin...
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slopechart_F.jpg
slopechart_F.jpg
The highlighted peak in Ford was May 4, 1999. 55 years earlier - in 1944, "Gaslight", starring an 18-year-old Ang...
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slopechart_$INDU.jpg
slopechart_$INDU.jpg
The highlighted candle is 3/6/2020 - 11 years to the day that marked the Financial Crisis bottom for the Dow. The...
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slopechart_$INDU.jpg
The highlighted day is 3/6/2020. The nearby amethyst line is the center line of a pitchfork that begins on 3/6/2009.
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The Long Finger of Doom
The Long Finger of Doom
Asian Contagion
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slopechart_NOBL.jpg
Proshares Dividend Aristocrats ETF: "There is no guarantee that dividends will be paid. Companies may reduce or...
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slopechart_TLT.jpg
Headfake?
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slopechart_IVZ.jpg
iShares ETF Company
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slopechart_XOM.jpg
slopechart_XOM.jpg
Exxon Mobile right at 50% retracement now
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slopechart_$NDX.jpg
slopechart_$NDX.jpg
Nasdaq 100 still struggling with the Devil's Pitchfork
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The Long Finger of Doom
The Long Finger of Doom
Silver has always been tough for me to chart. A thrust over $21.26 is maybe launch time. I don't trade it much -...
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slopechart_FEZ.jpg
slopechart_FEZ.jpg
One doesn't think of the wearing of a Fez in the countries represented in this ETF: France, Germany, Netherlands,...
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slopechart_FXI.jpg
China ETF - 50 large cap Chinese companies, but when I see "FX", I think of Forex: FXY, FXE, etc., not equities....
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slopechart_$TRAN.jpg
slopechart_$TRAN.jpg
Transports were rejected just shy of the 61.8% Fib retracement today, and still remain ~5% below the Christmas Eve...
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slopechart_SPY.jpg
March 9 - April 9: Did something happen while I was off in the woods?
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slopechart_EWC.jpg
Great White North rejected at trendline
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slopechart_/ICE_SB.jpg
Sugar #11 Futures - The global benchmark for raw cane sugar. (No need to worry, Strawberry Blonde) This chart can...
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slopechart_/US.jpg
slopechart_/US.jpg
All Systems Go?
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slopechart_$NDX.jpg
slopechart_$NDX.jpg
Nasdaq 100 rejected at the middle of the Pitchfork
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slopechart_TIP.jpg
slopechart_TIP.jpg
Maybe the party is just getting started?
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slopechart_FR:DGS10.jpg
slopechart_FR:DGS10.jpg
10 year Treasury constant maturity rate. Trouble has been brewing for a while now.
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slopechart_SPY/FXI.jpg
slopechart_SPY/FXI.jpg
U.S. vs China: On the edge right now.
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slopechart_TDY.jpg
Space Force candidate: Defense, communications, satellites... I might buy a bounce off the amethyst pitchfork an...
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slopechart_BA.jpg
slopechart_BA.jpg
I'm joining the Space Force. Boeing’s expertise spans a broad range of products in defense. Fighter jets, rotorc...
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slopechart_GLD.jpg
SPDR Gold Trust (but Verify?) Why are they called Spiders?
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slopechart_STT.jpg
Please note the amethyst Fib lines
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slopechart_FR:VXGDXCLS.jpg
slopechart_FR:VXGDXCLS.jpg
Gold Miners ETF Volatility
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Gold ETF Volatility
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slopechart_$SPX/FR:DGS30.jpg
slopechart_$SPX/FR:DGS30.jpg
30 year mouse. If (when) the yield on the 30 year bond goes to zero, then this calculation becomes undefined.
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slopechart_EWY.jpg
South Korea on the Edge
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slopechart_AXP.jpg
American Express: 38.2% Retracement from just under two months after Nixon resigned.
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Goldman Sachs: 50% Retracement level from 2008
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Blackrock: 23.6% Retracement from 1999. Start to see a pattern here?
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slopechart_BRK.B.jpg
The Oracle of Omaha: 23.6% Retracement from 1996.
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slopechart_MDY.jpg
slopechart_MDY.jpg
Midcaps nail the middle of the channel
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slopechart_SPY.jpg
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I finally got around to using my Williams %R 233. Seems to keep you out of trouble on SPY.
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slopechart_XLF.jpg
slopechart_XLF.jpg
Financials since Election Day
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