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.

It’s a Start

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I am cautiously pleased to see red all over the screens, although I’m so cynical by this point that I wouldn’t be surprised if anything – – anything at all – – caused us to erase the losses. Perhaps Hillary will have another coughing fit and cough up something green, and people will become inexplicably excited and press the Buy button repeatedly. Who knows.

All I can say is that I’ll gladly welcome any reason – even if that hairless, morbidly obese dildo Kim Jung Chub launches a nuclear strike against Las Vegas (or any other deserving target) – to take the market lower. I’m due for about 1273 days in a row like this, then we’ll call it even. Worldwide mayhem and calamity. Is it really so much for one person to ask?

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To B Or Not To B

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One thing that Stan and I are both bad at is drawing attention to our successes, as that feels like bragging, and we both know that good technical analysts are very prone to getting delusions of grandeur, which has a very negative (and often fatal) effect on the future quality of their work. We have no intention of going down that road ourselves.

However a certain degree of self-congratulation seems necessary for marketing purposes, so with some reluctance I’m going to be mentioning some current and past successes along with my equity index analysis today just to demonstrate what it is that we do at theartofchart.net. I’m going to be doing a post there later showing some seriously nice past calls on AAPL to promote our new Big Five (AAPL, AMZN, FB, NFLX, TSLA) chart service that we are launching at the moment, and if you’d like to attend the free public webinar that we are doing on Monday after the RTH close to promote that service then you can register for that here. We will be looking at the charts for all five in that free webinar. (more…)