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Even though the S&P 500 index is over 6% beneath its lifetime high, you would never know it looking at HDGE, which is the ETF dedicated to selling stocks short. It is pretty much at its lifetime low, as if the market itself was at a lifetime high (which, the way things are going, shouldn’t be much longer now).
It’s getting dicey – – especially for QQQ – – but for the moment, the series of lower highs since last September are still hanging on for dear life.
I have a rather unique vantage point as the owner of this little corner of the Internet. People from various parts of the world know me by way of Slope as well as my show on tastytrade, and some of the bears among them (God love ’em) consider me their ursine patron saint, so when things are going badly (like, oh, the past six weeks nonstop) they reach out to me.
Well, last night, this is pretty much what I experienced:
Let’s take a step-by-step example as to how a SlopeRules set would be constructed and improved.
When basing rules on indicators, it’s important to know which levels and crossover points are important to different indicators. Below, for instance, are some examples of the CCI, RSI, and %R indicators. As you can see, the y-axis values (highlighted on the right) vary quite a bit from study to study.
