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.

Finally, a Post!

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Today has been shamefully devoid of original content by me. Before I head to bed, I wanted to fix that! Thus, below, I share a number of ETF charts and a few words about each of them, now that this first day of the trading year is behind us.

We begin with DBC, which is doing a yeoman’s job of sinking. It is approaching the lower half of its long-time descending channel, and I think energy is speaking truthfully to us about what’s ahead for the economy (as opposed to, let’s say, that four foot dwarf named Janet Yellen who ranks as one of the most vile and evil humans ever to be spawned on planet Earth, and whose very presence here is a curse to all decent men and women).

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Mistakes I Made (by AlgoTradeAlert)

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Trading Mistakes I Made in My Career

Do Not Trade Based on Any Stock Market Direction Predictions or Pivot Dates: No one can predict with certainty what the stock market will do in the future, so avoid making trades based on that assumption. Never base your trades on a prediction of a specific date when the market will turn, especially if it comes from other traders. Many such predictions are inaccurate, with less than half proving correct even after ten attempts. Never execute a trade based solely on fear and greed indicators or overbought or oversold conditions. These are merely market conditions and not direct signals to buy or sell.

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