Well worth watching………..
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Weight, Weight, Don’t Tell Me
Some Motivating Words
I stumbled upon this clip. I’ve never seen the movie. Never saw the scene before. But, wow, this is timely.
Wall of Worry (by Xerxes)
Well, I am trying to look at the indices as unbiasedly as possible, simply looking at technicals and things don’t look good for bears. I’m sure this comes with a “well duh” response, but it doesn’t hurt to look at the charts and say the obvious out loud.
But I am more concerned now as I am trying to add a behavioral profile to the market while watching the action lately and we are in the midst of climbing this wall of worry which (when in the thick of it) seems to have no end. So how do we plan for possible turns? I certainly can’t profit by holding shorts throughout this rally (from an index perspective). At best, this is a stock picker’s market to find decent shorts to ride down while riding the broad indices up. But here is what concerns me the most:
(more…)Powerful Pairs
There are two premium features I used in SlopeCharts to create this post: Custom Symbols and access to the Economic Database. I created a variety of ratio charts, nine of which I found interesting enough to share here. I’m going to show everyone one of them, but the other eight are for paying members only (Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum).
The first ratio chart I wanted to show was the All World index divided by the continuous contract of gold prices. Why on earth would I choose this goofy combination? Simple: because gold is real money, and by representing global equities with real money, it provides a vastly more realistic (indeed, the ONLY realistic) view into what global equities have actually done over the decades.
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