Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Five Months in Two Images
Today sucks. I won’t pretend otherwise. I was positioned for a fall, and instead we’re looking at a market in which the Dow is up QUADRUPLE DIGITS as I am typing these words. It wasn’t catastrophic for me, but I’ll get to that later. What I wanted to point out is this image of the Dow 30 fund:
(more…)The Harder They Fall (by Xerxes)
I have not written any posts in quite a while so I want to apologize for my absence. While I have had the occasional comment here and there, I have not felt I had much else to say. I hate politics talk and the charts have been in a choppy zone leading up to this week. But now with both of those issues seemingly put to bed for the year, I think we can get back to good old chart trading.
(more…)Bull Stampede
Well, that’s that. The CPI came in ice cold………
(more…)Flat as a Board
Good morning, Slopers, and welcome to CPI day. I’m typing this post thirty minutes before The Big Event, and, unsurprisingly, trading has been flat as a board all night, since there have been no reasons (not even SBF!) to push the markets either up or down.
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