I just got a full report for Slope’s traffic in 2019, and it was quite a read. Most of it is confidential, but I wanted to share a couple of nuggets. First off, not surprisingly, the good old U.S. of A is our biggest draw.
The Growth of Slope
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.
Follow That Car!
As you know, I love announcing new features here on Slope, which happens with some regularity. This time, however, I’d like to re-introduce a feature we’ve made a lot better: the Follow function.
Simply stated, if you want to see every comment any specific Sloper makes, just click on the Follow button, as shown below (it looks like a pedestrian):
Shot Out the Champagne Bottle
I am typing this shortly before the first regular session of the year begins, and the ES is up 17 while the NQ is up nearly 70. Any bull glancing at the overnight activity must be ready for another year of record highs every day on the S&P 500.
Metallic Amigos Ride Into 2020
At the dawn of what is going to be a hyper-interesting year in the markets and in society, let’s see what the lovable and goofy Amigos have to say. As usual, we’ll use gold and silver daily charts and a copper daily along with a longer-term view with a weekly chart for the Economic Ph.D. metal.
The charts are the metals futures (click ’em for a larger, clear view), live when I clipped them a little while ago. The caveat with the metals as with macro markets in general is that it is still Santa silly season and so the signals are suspect to whatever degree you put weight on that.
(more…)Psychology of Trading, Part 6
Compulsion to Repeat
Sigmund Freud was the first to recognize that some people behave not out of a desire to seek pleasure, but out of a “compulsion to repeat.” This theory details how some people endlessly repeat patterns of behavior that are associated with difficult or traumatic events in their lives, particularly early life. In this article we will take a modern day look at Freud’s repetition compulsion. Denise Shull, in the below paper, details how today’s neuroscience intersect with Freud’s “compulsion to repeat”. Let’s take a look.
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