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.

This Was Real

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There are some things that have happened in real life which, had you told someone not that far in the past, they would find it incredible. And I mean “incredible” in the literal sense – – not credible – – impossible – – beyond belief. Not simply “gosh, gee whiz.”

For instance, teleport yourself back to the sprawling Sun Microsystems campus in the summer of 2000. Announce to the thousands of Sun employees gathered around you that a high school kid is going to write a web site, and the company based around that web site will become much, much larger than Sun Microsystems. Also  mention to them that their organization won’t even exist in a few years, and the high schooler’s company will occupy not only their entire campus, but will need to build an entire city next to that complex to support all its employees.

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World Market “Buy” Signal Triggered

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A new “BUY” signal has just triggered on the World Market Index. I last wrote about this index on June 29th.

Price punched through 1900 (which will now need to hold as major support), the RSI has broken its latest downtrend and is back above 50, and there are new bullish crossovers on the MACD and PMO indicators, as shown on the following Daily chart.

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