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Here’s an unusual take on charts that I don’t think I’ve done before: I went through all 61 (yep, 61) of my short positions with exponential moving averages and the prices hidden, and I plucked out the ten whose configuration I found the most intriguing and exciting. So……..here they are (as always, click on any chart for an absolutely gargantuan view):
I must apologize for how light I’ve been on content today. It’s been a crazy one (including one of my dogs tangling, yet again, with a skunk). I’ll make it up to you this weekend. Promise!
In ten months, the election of 2020 will be over. All the Representatives will have been elected. Thirty-three Senate races will be done. And, of course, the Big Kahuna, the Presidential Race will be over. We’ll have have the current occupant another four years or his replacement.
I have a lifelong interest in politics, but some months ago, for a variety of reasons, I decided to engage in a self-imposed gag order on my own political talk. I’d say I’ve been rather successful at it. Except for an occasional outburst here or there, I rarely comment on politics here on Slope, and I certainly don’t do posts about it. (I don’t follow the same rule-set on my Twitter feed, but I consider that realm to be the wild west anyway, and not my own forum).
(more…)Once again, in the milliseconds after the monthly jobs report hit the wires, algos proved themselves unreliable to stating a correct direction.
