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.

Evening Stroll

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As I am beginning this post on Monday evening, the net change in the ES is +0.00, and I suspect things will be ungodly boring until the FOMC’s big event on Wednesday, at which time they do their usual schtick and also discuss details of slowly unwinding their gargantuan $4.5 trillion of assets they acquired for the noble purpose of making the Rich even Richer.

Of course, looking at the Dow 30, it sure doesn’t seem like anyone is worried about equities……..

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World Markets Nearing Exhaustion?

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I last wrote about the World Market Index on August 30.

Since then, price did retest (and break above) the 1950 major resistance level to make a new three-year high, as shown on the Daily chart below. It closed just above that level on Friday.

Notwithstanding this year’s push higher (once it broke above above the prior year’s congestion zone), the RSI, MACD, and PMO technical indicators have failed to make a series of higher swing highs since mid-May…suggesting that market enthusiasm is waning in world markets, in general.

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