Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Eyes on the Prize
Have a good 4th of July, everybody. Cherish your family. Toast your friends. And don’t get your hands blown off. Our national nightmare is soon at hand.
Double Tap
ES finally broke below the ES 60min 50 hour MA yesterday afternoon and that has held as resistance overnight. On the ES 60min chart I have a double top target in the 1589 area but it may be that well see a strong bounce without making that target as the current overnight low is the possible H&S neckline in the 1593 area. If this continues to form we would see a decent rally today and the downside target on a break downwards would be the 1566 area. If we reached that level we would then see whether we would get the second low of a double-bottom confirming the current low, or break downwards towards the ideal retracement low target around the 1510 area (and the SPX 200 DMA). ES 60min chart: (more…)
A Trio of Charts
An interesting trading day today, to be sure! The market went rocketing higher, but the damage to my all-short portfolio was never very bad (I came into the day 70% committed in 88 different short positions). As the market started weakening, I pushed into the green, and I stayed there all the way through the close. In spite of the NDX being up and the S&P being virtually unchanged, I enjoyed about a 0.36% gain. I’m not going to argue with that. (more…)
