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.

Get On With It!

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To come right to the point, it would be awfully nice if the market would stop dicking around and plunge like it’s supposed to do. All this teasing, little up, little down, little up, little down, is boring and maddening. Come on, Mr. Market. You know you’re astronomically overvalued. Get yourself right!

Speaking of little down, that’s what we got (as of pre-open, at least) as the /ES has meandered pointlessly since yesterday, producing a petite rounded top.

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The Gaps Matter

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After my epic previous post, I figured I was done for the day, but nope, let’s do one last quickie. Below are six major U.S. stock market indexes. I merely share this to illustrate the importance, and the consistency, of the price gap that was defined last weekend. I have anchored each recent horizontal to the same gap. Let’s just agree that it would help the bears an awful lot if we managed to stay below these gaps.

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