Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Laying It On Thick

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I’m going to be a bum and just paste in the documentation to our new Layered Charts feature. I still need to read the comments from my announcement last night, since I know some of you had good ideas I want to implement. But I am continuing to ask for feedback and ideas to improve this – – and for you to tell me if you’ve seen anything like this anywhere else. I’ve been wanting this feature for years.

The ability to “layer” charts is a unique and powerful feature in SlopeCharts which at first glance might seem to be just an other form of comparison charts, but it is much more flexible and sophisticated than that. This feature allows you to combine charts in ways that are simply not possible with standard comparison charts.

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Bear Necessities

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Unfortunately the week has become dominated by the news relating to the possible imminent invasion of Ukraine by Russia. At the time of writing there has been no invasion, and the consensus view this morning seems to be that there is no credible sign that Russia is backing down yet either. We’ll see, but news could move this tape a long way in either direction.

At the close yesterday SPX closed slightly back over the daily middle band, currently at 4465. Only a slight break, more of a close on the band than over it, but a follow through today would open a possible test of the monthly pivot at 4519.

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