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.

Deflation, Stag or Crack-up Inflation?

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Goldilocks is transitional; it’s what’s next that will represent the next major macro theme

Ever since the 30 year Treasury bond yield (one ‘top-down’ macro tool NFTRH uses to gauge the environment so that we may invest in, speculate upon or avoid certain situations, accordingly) broke its Continuum of pleasantly declining long-term Treasury bond yields, macro nerds have been called to task in order to correctly interpret the forward backdrop that this break implies. The note at the upper right of the chart asks the key question.

30 year treasury bond yield
Stockcharts.com
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Cut + Lemon Juice

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s Not Again post, here is an update of Netflix (NFLX) which is down hard again today and, perhaps more importantly, is approaching what could be the completion of a massive topping pattern.

In other words, the hard fall it’s taken might just be the beginning of something even larger. Oh, wouldn’t THAT feel special for my abandoned puts, which are up over 40% since, umm, yesterday. I could just weep…………

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