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.
Interest Rate Free-Fall
Looks like the Fed’s gradual departure from being a massive bond buyer isn’t hurting interest rates. Indeed, they are slip-sliding away. Interestingly, sectors that would normal benefit from this continued collapse (home builders, for instance) are sinking as well.
Swing Trading Watch-List: TIF, IR, HAL, CTXS, FSLR
Gap Closing on Emerging
How’s that for a confusing post title? Anyway, I am so short, I could jump off a dime, and I am merely adding to positions. The latest of the emerging markets ETF, symbol EEM, which is approaching a gap-fill as well as the underside of a trendline.
New Highs on SPX
SPX made a new high yesterday at 1902.17 after breaking up from the range trading of the last few months. Kudos to my EW friends Pug and Alphahorn who both called this bullish resolution correctly, with Alphahorn saying last week that both of his bull and bear counts required new highs on SPX. That looked somewhat doubtful at the time but well, here we are.
On the SPX daily chart there is nothing to suggest that the new high yesterday might be a significant reversal level, and I’m looking for more upside after the current small retracement completes. SPX tested the upper bollinger band at the high yesterday and we could start a bollinger band ride upwards with SPX trading around the upper band. There is some significant resistance however at the weekly upper band, currently at 1907. SPX daily chart: (more…)
