Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Thunder Dome

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Well, a full week is upon us, and we enter a period in which we don’t have any damned holidays to interrupt our trading until September rolls around.

Looking at the ES, the topping formation is still in the throes of completion. Simply stated, the steady series of lower lows and lower highs must not be violated, and the gentle downtrend illustrated with the red trendline needs to keep drifting toward that much longer-term blue supporting line and break it. If we can do that, it’s party time.  The line in the sand at 2417.50 is still important, and I’ll breath easier if we can get to the lower side of it.

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Three SlopeCharts Improvements

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Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, but not for your intrepid host, who is pleased to announce three more improvements to the already-marvelous SlopeCharts product (which improvements, for some curious reason, all begin with the same letter). For your consideration……….

PRINTING – Want to print out a SlopeChart? Just right-click anywhere on the chart area, and choose this menu item…………

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PREFERENCES – Personally, I like to make it really apparent when a symbol appears in more than one watchlist. For me, it typically is the case when I am short ETFs, because I always have the ETF symbols in my ETF watchlist, so when any of them show up in my Short watch list, well, those are duplicates! I want my eye drawn to them, and now any of us can italicized, boldface, color – – or any combination thereof – – identical symbols via the Preferences menu. (more…)