Well for one thing, gold has often experienced strength during periods when long-term yields have risen. The yellow bars on the 2 lower panels of the chart below show that. Yet on this cycle, gold has gone down as long-term yields have risen. (more…)
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.
For-Profit Education Surge
During the second half of 2012, “for-profit” education companies (the ones such as ITT Technical Institute that advertise on television all the time) were getting pummelled. The basic story was that the graduates from these “colleges” were pretty much unemployable, and thus unable to pay back their (huge) Fed loans. The Feds were getting sick of it and started to clamp down, so COCO, ESI, DV, and many others plunged. (more…)
Swing-Trading Watch-List: LAMR, HBI, MUR, POR, BBY
Here’s the swing-trading watch-list:
Long Lamar Advertising (LAMR): (more…)
Gann Angle Fun with the DJI
Musical Interlude
I’m usually not that keen on live performances, but this one is exceptional (and contains some very appropriate messages for the seven bears left on planet Earth!)
