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.
CrapStrike
I have accounts at a number of brokerages, and they’re all basically useless right now thanks to these inept buffoons:
(more…)Latest Liquidity
Hot off the press from the Federal Reserve………
(more…)Friday Stability
Good morning, everyone, as we prepare to wrap up what has been an historic week. At the moment, in sharp contrast to the past couple of days, it is super-boring in equity-land. The equity futures are all up a hundred hundredths of a single percentage point. Since I sold all my IWM puts yesterday afternoon, I am happily not kicking myself at all.
(more…)A Changing Of The Guard
In my post a week ago I was looking at the runaway move on Tech, and the way the move had just blown through some serious sell signals on SPX without breaking a sweat. These moves can end anytime of course, and it may well be that the move has ended, with a powerful rotation out of Tech and into the Dow and Russell 2000 over the last few days.
There is another decent setup for retracement on SPX and NDX here now and, with Tech in retreat, that may well deliver.
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