I’m takin’ one for the team, folks. I am spending just about all my time plowing through the book below, which I purchased for the express goal of having at least a basic understanding of MMT.
Trendy Read
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Relatively Speaking
As a reminder, SlopeCharts has the ability to present charts based on combining symbols, modified with any mathematical mutations you might like. Below I am showing three simple ratio charts, each of which is pretty interesting.
The first is IWM/SPY, which nicely shows how, over the course of many years, small caps have been losing the battle against the S&P 500. If this were an individual stock, it would look very shortable, because that is one huge inverted saucer.
Onwards And Downwards
From Springheel Jack: It’s been a while since my last post and my apologies for that. It has been an intense summer of medical treatments for my wife, exams and results for my children, computer upgrades and so on. I’ve been feeling somewhat drained.
However the market has so far avoided being as tedious as it often is at this time of year, and, if I’m not much mistaken, then the next leg down on equities has started this morning from a short term reversal setup that is really one of the nicest that I have seen in quite a while. I was going through that in detail across SPX, ES, NQ, RTY, DAX and ESTX50 in the video below before the open this morning.
(more…)That Amazing Line
One of these days, I’m going to trust my own drawings more.
This morning, I woke up to yet another annoying rally (and, yes, that’s a word I use a lot these days). Based on absolutely nothing, the market was pushing higher and higher, and it actually spiked after the opening bell.
I noticed, however, it was approaching a trendline. If I had rock-solid faith in these things, I would have concluded: “Great, short everything that moves.” But I didn’t. And here’s what happened:
A Moment of Silence
First of all, the Rate of Change described in the last post is now live! So go to SlopeCharts and check it out. While you’re doing that, the rest of us will enjoy this brilliant bit from our patron saint, which is a mix of comedic timing, physical humor, and brilliant writing. Classic George:
