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.

Correlation Sensation

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Another new feature on the site, folks! And I think you’re going to love it.

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Yes, correlations! And it couldn’t be easier to use.

Just to to the Correlations page, and you will have the opportunity to either type in some equity symbols manually or, much faster, choose a watch list of your own. Here, for instance, I’ve just punched in a couple of symbols that I known have a clean inverse correlation:

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Silver/Gold Ratio Hits Target

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The NFTRH plan is and has been that the gold mining sector, due to the fundamentals implied by the handy graphic below, could eventually lead a world full of inflatables higher. The miners, leveraging gold’s out performance to most everything else during liquidity crises and even deflation, move first and draw in the inflationist bugs later. If the macro goes inflationary the miners will likely continue to perform well (ref. the 2003-2008 period) but would no longer be the go-to sector.

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