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I don’t think there’s been any more “in demand” feature with respect to SlopeCharts than cycle tools. I am pleased to introduce the first one today: Cycle Lines.
The Cycle Lines tool is accessible by clicking on the icon in the drawing tools palette:
If in early January, you’d have described to us everything that was to happen with the world and global economy and then asked us to guess where the stock market would be, we would not have guessed it would be at today’s level.
Looking at the stock market today, the first thought that comes to mind is that it is divorced from economic reality. The S&P 500 is only a few percent away from where it started 2020.
On the surface it looks like stocks discount one incredibly rosy version of the future. In that version everything goes back to normal like nothing happened; we basically just entered and quickly exited a sharp recession and earnings came back to pre-coronavirus normal. Though that is a possible outcome, it is not a probable one, judging by what is happening right now. We’d like to note that, in any scenario, we’ll exit with close to $10 trillion of additional debt on the government’s and the Fed’s balance sheets
(more…)The Metals & Mining ETF tends to slog and churn slowly, but it does so in broad, sweeping cycles. Looking at the entire history of this instrument, you can plainly see a quartet of reversal patterns. I have used SlopeCharts‘ expansion feature to make the future and the downside potential more plain. As always, click the image for a super-big version.
For you SlopeCharts users out there (both current and prospective), I’ve tidied up and improved the Reference Guide. Click here to check it out.
May I direct your attention to Nautilus as a prospective short candidate, which I shorted yesterday with a stop at $9.80.
