At 4 this morning, my only concern was that crude oil was green in the face of equities being down hard. I have a lot of bearish energy plays, including puts on EWZ and XOP, so I want crude oil to be weak. Well, problem solved:
Crude Takes a Dump
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.
Powell’s Enormous Hole
Greetings from rainy, cicada-noisy, dog-loving North Carolina. In spite of sneering suggestions from a certain troll to reject “mysticism” and respect only “rationality“, I did try to give everyone the heads-up in my weird prophetic lunacy:
These Poor Kids………
Revisiting the AggM System (by Mr. Wizard)
I collect stuff. All kinds of stuff, including old, used, and useless/worn-out trading systems. I have dozens of them, and like most collectors, I rummage around in my trading system collection every couple of months to see if there might be an overlooked treasure hiding there. Last month I decided to revisit a system called the AggM.
The AggM trading system was invented by prolific indicator creator David Varadi, and first appeared around 2009. I did many trials of this system back around 2012, added to those in 2018, and re-evaluated the system performance yet again in July.
(more…)The Near-Perfect Predictor
Wow. I have something exceptionally cool to share with you. Something so cool, it might even compel some of my thriftier readers to get a crowbar out, crack their wallet open, and become a Gold or Platinum member. Even in the midst of my zany travel schedule, I wanted to write up this post and tell you about what I managed to figure out on a delightfully rainy Sunday morning.
Specifically, it has to do with taking this chart……….
