After trampling over and, ultimately, destroying the bears the entire year, the bulls at least had the common decency to bury the body………only to follow up moments later by urinating all over the fresh gravesite:
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.
The Automatic Earth
A brief video I put together about automated trendlines in SlopeCharts:
Quiet, Dead Ahead
Nothing worth talking about news-wise until next Friday, when the monthly jobs reports hits. Otherwise….relax!
It Keeps Me Stable for Days
I was messing around with SlopeCharts, as I so often do, and I stumbled across one of our more unusual indicators – $CARS – which shows motor vehicle production. I overlaid it with the SPY and saw a mildly-interesting phenomenon in which car production peaks and rolls lower before stocks do. Like I said – meh – mildly-interesting.
Miners Ready to Roll?
Gold has been very strong since the 12th of this month, but the precious metals miners are going to need some Herculean super-powers at this point to break their long-standing series of lower highs. This road trip may be almost out of gas.
