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.

Fever

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What’s up with the title of this post? Am I ill or something? No. It’s simply how I keep thinking of this market: waiting for the fever to break. In a mad world, the sane person begins to question his own sanity. Or at least that’s my experience. Thus, when I saw Bitcoin rocket past $61,000, I saw the fever was still raging. For the immediate moment, there’s at least a pause, as we’ve had a $5,000 reversal.

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HGNSI Joins Progression of Gloom in Gold

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Hulbert’s HGNSI joins other sentiment-based positive indicators for Gold

Just as ole’ Jim Cramer above signaled an imminent short-term rally recently in the stock market, bleak views coming out of the gold bug “community” are reliable contrary indicators. The Hulbert Gold  Newsletter Sentiment Index (HGNSI)  is out and it is fully bullish on a contrary basis as it shows gold newsletter writers in full retreat.

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We have noted that Gold’s CoT has been improving (CotBase)…

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