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.

SlopeMATRIX, Take Two

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We made some improvements and changes to the new SlopeMATRIX page, which provides real time quotes for your watchlists. I intend to use it mostly for sorting the percentage column, since I’m interested in what is moving up and down the most in a given list. You can access the page from the Tools menu (or just click here), and you can control the contents of the watchlists from SlopeCharts. Please email me feedback and suggestions, since I’m eager to hear from you. Just to be clear, this is NOT a finished product, but I’m interested in early feedback.

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Cracks in the Ceiling

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Umm, where is everybody? Is this market seriously boring everyone to death? It would seem so. I never thought summer was such a huge draw for people.

Anyway, I’m back home now, and I thought I’d thumb through some index charts, since Monday gave us a bit of “bullish breakdown”. Starting with the Dow 65 Composite, you can see in the tinted zone how the breakout (quite pronounced last Thursday) has been a total washout. What I’d love to see, of course, is continued weakness toward that supporting trendline. The “gap up” is now squashed.

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Checking in on the Slow Boiling Bullfrogs (Market Sentiment)

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No frogs were harmed in the making of this video! At the time of a boil it’s a rubber stunt frog, which gave me a sense of relief as I watched.

As part of the S&P 500 top-test scenario we have favored since February a key component to a failed test would be that the frightened Bullfrogs that jumped out of the pot in February and March would return, settle in and get nice and comfy. Maybe not with the bounce in their hop that they had in January but well, comfy. (more…)