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.

FOMC Shakeout

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I’m not keen on FOMC days, and even by usual standards yesterday’s FOMC action was pretty wild, which was odd as essentially nothing new was revealed. On the wild spike up after after the first spike down the declining channel on SPX was broken and I posted a very nice technical rally scenario on twitter. Even after the next wild spike down yesterday that is still very much in play as long as yesterday’s low area holds, and so here is that chart that I posted then. SPX 60min chart: (more…)

Off to Paradise

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Well, folks, you know how hard I work on the blog, and how little I go on vacation (approximately never), but I am going to spend the rest of the day traveling across land and sea to take a holiday with my family through Monday. This does not mean Slope goes dark (unlike some blogs whose owners take frequent holidays and basically blow off their readers for the duration). It does mean, however: (more…)