I doubt a soothing recitation of “Twas The Night Before Christmas” could lull people into as peaceful a sleep as the market right now. It’s just one steady zone of consolidation, followed by a new push to lifetime highs, after another.

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.
I doubt a soothing recitation of “Twas The Night Before Christmas” could lull people into as peaceful a sleep as the market right now. It’s just one steady zone of consolidation, followed by a new push to lifetime highs, after another.

Preface to all parts: 2019 was a great year for the Slope of Hope, with a much wider array of tools and a record number of premium subscribers. I have extracted what I consider the best posts from the year and, for the sake of everyone’s sanity, arranged links to them in a set of ten short posts.
(more…)Do you consider all of our lives insignificant? You’re probably giving us way too much credit, then. Watch this amazing video.
I created something new for the site. It took me a long time to put together, but I had a ball doing it. It is a guide to technical patterns.

This is going to be perhaps the shortest post I’ve ever done, but it will link to one of the longest posts you will ever read: Dave Collum’s 2019 year in review. I have been gobbling it up all day, and it’s like catnip. I’m up to page 90 of 150 pages (I’m not counting the footnotes). I highly recommend it, and you can get the entire PDF file here.
