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.

Grindhouse

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The market has been in quite a stupor lately, but let’s catch up with a dozen indexes to see what’s what.

We begin with the NASDAQ Composite, which is roughly at the same level it was on February 12th. In other words, we haven’t had any meaningful change in 15 days. That may explain why you’re falling asleep at your keyboard. If we can repeat the failure of that wedge, however, things could get interesting in a hurry…………and that wedge is everywhere.

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Outta Time!

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You saw the headlines, same as I did. This story was making the rounds like mad during the first half of the month.

The historical data was indisputable. On average, the second half of February was the worst half-month of the entire trading year.

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