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.

Gold’s Road to Nowhere

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From 'Road to Nowhere' by the Talking Heads:

We're on a road to nowhere
come on inside.
Takin' that ride to nowhere
we'll take that ride.
Maybe you wonder where you are
I don't care.
Here is where time is on our side 
take you there.

From the US Federal Reserve's website and the sub-section The Federal Reserve's Response to the Crisis:


"On September 21, 2011, the FOMC announced that it would extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities–by purchasing $400 billion par of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of 6 years to 30 years and selling an equal par amount of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of 3 years or less–by the end of June 2012. The FOMC also announced that it will reinvest principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency MBS in agency MBS. In addition, the FOMC will maintain its existing policy of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction."


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Lost in Space (by Springheel Jack)

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SPX has now spent five days trading in a narrow range with support at 1397 and resistance at 1406. Overall this looks like topping action, as SPX is too close to the upper bollinger band on the daily chart to allow for a lot of upside without at least some retracement. What we might well see though is a test of the April high, which is at 1422.38, with the upper bollinger band now in the 1420 area:

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