5 years ago – Slope of Hope with Tim Knight

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.

True Strength

By Tim Knight - 5 years ago (15, Aug 2019 7:27:18 PM)

No, this isn’t an inspirational, motivational post, in spite of the title. Now that we have finished the new technical studies dialog box, we intend to start adding studies at a brisk pace (whereas I think an entire year has gone by since we’d added anything). If you didn’t see the video introducing the new interface, please click here to watch it.

The True Strength Index was created in 1991 as a means to find market extremes and potential oversold/overbought conditions. It is a double-smoothed indicator, relying on exponential moving average as its foundation. Specifically, its calculation is:

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Foes Oppose Us

By Tim Knight - 5 years ago (15, Aug 2019 1:57:03 PM)

Another terrific day! Even though we had ad bounce in the market, leading to a green ES and NQ, I turned out another nice profit, thanks to my well-chosen positions. I remain entirely short, and aggressively so, at 200%.

Let’s take a look at what the ES has done over the past few months:

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Future Shock

By Tim Knight - 5 years ago (15, Aug 2019 10:54:40 AM)

There are three things that are having amazing bull markets: gold, bonds, and Slope Premium Subscriptions. Silver, Gold, and Diamond members get access to continuous futures contracts from all over the world in SlopeCharts, and I wanted to share a few below. I’ve captioned each.

slopechart CL — crude oil, marching toward $40

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Band of the Hand

By Tim Knight - 5 years ago (15, Aug 2019 9:28:23 AM)

When’s the bounce? When’s the bounce? Who knows. I was playing around with SlopeCharts‘ new indicator dialog, and I like what I see with the 75-day Bollinger Bands. Looks like we may still have some elbow room to the downside.

World Weary

By Tim Knight - 5 years ago (15, Aug 2019 6:26:22 AM)

Navigating a market this wild can get exhausting. I’m typing this just moments before the opening bell, and I’m ready to search out a hammock. In any case, I’d rather have a market like this than just about every moment of the decade prior.

Keep a close eye on banks, financials, and brokerages. Look how interesting the recent activity on the financials ETF has been intraday:

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