Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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World Market Headwinds Escalate
INTRODUCTION
In my Market Forecast for 2018, I thought that, taking into consideration the uncertainty of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, coupled with likely interest rate hikes, we’d probably see:
- volatility rise in 2018 and the SPX and other U.S. Major Indices gain only about half of what they gained in 2017, which would mean an approximate increase of 10% for the SPX
- that Technology would remain fairly strong, while Small-Caps would likely struggle more than Big-Caps
- that U.S. markets would continue to outperform other World markets (with the performance of their financials playing an important part)
Sector Shorts: Technology
Preface to all sector posts: I’m not going to dance around it: I am very short again. I have 99 different short positions and am aggressively positioned for the week ahead. I have gone through all my charts and have broken a portion of them into distinct sectors. Here is the next gallery, and as always, you can click on any thumbnail for a larger image. You can scroll left and right through the gallery.
