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.
Teck Tock
One of my favorite short positions, Teck Resources, continues to break down nicely. There’s nothing but air beneath current price levels.
Interest Rates Peaking?
It seems to me that interest rates are probably reaching a short-term high (and, therefore, resulting in forthcoming bond strength). Here are rates for ten-year notes (which, strangely, come across the data feed at time times their value; 22.00 is really 2.2, for instance)
Breaking Glass
SPX made the targets I gave on Friday morning and on the SPX daily chart the highest target was a test from below of the daily middle bollinger band. That is a natural resistance level and the question this morning is whether equities go higher. SPX daily chart:
Don’t Know Much about History
My blogger’s guilt has gotten the best of me, so I’m doing a quick comment-cleaner post.
I am hard at work on my newest book for John Wiley & Sons, tentatively called History and Hysteria. It’s a history book about the financial markets, and it’s by far the hardest book I’ve ever written. I’m also having great fun writing it, on the whole. (more…)
