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.
Digging the Cycles
The Way-Too-Easy Bounce
The lifelong dichotomy remains the same: I am exceptionally pleased with my charting, which in retrospect was at Nostradamus levels, whereas I’m sorely disappointed in my personal trading. Mercifully, you only get part #1.
Below are some conjectures about where a bounce might take us. If these actually take place, the market gods aren’t even TRYING, because these are just way too obvious. But for what it’s worth……….
Stop and Smell the Roses (by Xerxes)
………….but keep moving!
It has been a wild week. This is the best week I have had in a long time. I’m celebrating my wins first, but as the title says, I need to plan next moves as well.
Another Lower High?
It may seem odd, but it’s only just occurring to me just how badly the market got wiped out, particularly on Friday I had sort of been taking it stride, but the abundance of “I turned $500 into $17,000” posts in /wsb made it dawn on me that, yeah, trillions of dollars of market cap have been destroyed in just days. I wonder, however, if this is just the umpteenth “lower high” in the VIX, and we’ll be subject to yet another multi-month “recovery” which is oh-so-boring compared to the blast we’ve been enjoying lately.
