Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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The Path Toward 4300

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In recent days, I’d give my charting a grade of “A” and my trading execution about a “C+“. I have been, on the whole, doing NOTHING with my positions (which is good), but I definitely mucked things up a bit monkeying around with those short-dated SPY and QQQ puts. Just look at this minute bar chart of the /NQ and see how the explosive move higher was absolutely blown to smithereens. I watched the puts I dumped both go up triple digits. Not a good feeling!

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Cathie’s Clown

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Cathie Wood, the most overrated fund manager in human history whose fame is entirely based on the fact she’s a female, must have considered her fund to have been saved about a month ago, since the fakery of 2023 was flowing to her fund’s benefit. As a chartist, however, I can offer that the saucer pattern which hinted that maybe ARKK would recover has pooed all over itself, and I think she’s going to back to showing up on CNBC every day yammering about this and that, but overall losing money for her investors.

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