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.

Unimpressed Again

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I offer yet another example of how computers aren’t as scary as we’re being told they are.

I was typing an email to a Sloper, and I messed up a word:

Now you, dear reader, certainly recognize what the word was supposed to have been. Not only is it easy to tell based on what often-used word should be there, but in the context of the sentence, you know what it should be.

The all-powerful software, however? Let’s take a look.

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Crypto Low Looking Good

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I’m probably going to start writing a post every Monday morning on cryptos. That’s a good day to do it because the pivot week on cryptos ends on Sunday night, so the weekly pivots on the daily charts I post on Monday mornings will be the new ones.

BTCUSD made an interesting looking low a few days ago and I wrote a post that day about the possible bull flag low that might now be in. Since then on BTCUSD the possible RSI 5 buy signal has fixed and BTCUSD has rallied well to break back over the daily middle band yesterday. If that is converted into support then the next obvious target will be bull flag megaphone resistance, currently in the 71,300 area. On a break above that the bull flag target would be a retest of the all time high not far above.

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