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.

Lust for Glory

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If you’re eager for charts, I’ll point you to the video I did earlier today. Otherwise, I’m all charted out. In the meantime, you might enjoy this video of John Cleese and Terry Jones (one-third of the original Python boys) speaking at a religious studies conference (of all things). It’s quite interesting, although Cleese does about 98% of the talking (Terry Jones hardly says a peep, and when he does, it’s mostly stammering). Quite an enjoyable chat:

The Three Possibly Unrelated Bears

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Using charts from the ones that I did last night for theartofchart.net basic chart service subscribers, so the ES chart is a few hours old now.

Friday was a strange day looking at SPX, NDX and RUT side by side. NDX/NQ was daddy bear, making the target I gave in the morning and the test of decent support that I gave at the same time. SPX/ES was mummy bear, with a decent retrace but not reaching obvious support. RUT/TF was (possibly adopted) baby bear, becoming so detached from the other two that RUT actually returned to retest the current swing high in the afternoon.

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