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.

Remains of The Ghey

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If God be for us, who can be against us? Ben, of course! It’s all about 1590, boys and girls. This is the line our crooked, charlatan, fraud-loving bullish enemies are defending. The spawn of Satan have done a good job holding it thus far. I suspect it’ll bounce, but my feeling is that we will finally claim victory over the evildoers next week. Dies Irae. Ides Illa. Solvet sæclum in favilla.

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Testing Wedge Support Take #2

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I have a working hypothesis for the next year or so on equities. The high so far this year shows no signals of a bull market high, so I’m looking for a summer retracement to test the SPX 200 DMA, currently at 1504 (and rising obviously), and attempt a test of the SPX weekly lower bollinger band over 1500, currently at 1488 and rising. SPX would then make a tradeable low and the next move into the 2014 spring/summer high would begin. I have more to say on downside targets on a break below the current June lows, but I’ll talk about those another day. (more…)

Kooks’ Klocks Kleaned

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I’ve been following the sinking of assets around the world with great interest. Precious metals, in particular, which I’ve been jumping-up-and-down bearish about for many months, are getting absolutely ravaged, and my oft-cited target of “between $1250 and $1300” is already here. I haven’t had a chance to see if we can go further, but I’m happy with the chart, obviously. (more…)