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.

Dynamic Duo or Gruesome Twosome?

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All human fate rests, it seems, on what AMZN and AAPL do after the close. I don’t have positions in either of these. Apple, for one thing, is utterly inscrutable to me. I mean, just look at the past year and a half of its trading. There’s no pattern. No bottom. No top. It’s just meandering along listlessly, going up and down without any rhyme or reason. So my prediction: no clue!

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Short Term High …. Perhaps More

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I posted the chart below on my personal twitter yesterday morning with the comment that a retracement was likely and that a possible rally high was being made.

I was looking at the perfect hit of the ideal possible rising wedge resistance trendline for this move and the very large amount of negative divergence on the hourly and 15 minute charts.

A higher high was then made that overthrew the wedge slightly and improved the hourly negative divergence further, and since then we have seen a modest retracement which looks likely to go further.

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