Preface to both posts: on Friday evening, I went through my list of key ETFs, and I found eight that seemed strong and eight that seemed vulnerable to weakness. Here are the vulnerable-looking ones, in alphabetical order of their symbols:
(more…)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.
Strong ETFs
Preface to both posts: on Friday evening, I went through my list of key ETFs, and I found eight that seemed strong and eight that seemed vulnerable to weakness. Here are the strong-looking ones, in alphabetical order of their symbols:
(more…)Life Imitates Python
We’ve all heard the stories about the tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars allocated to government programs that, in the end, wound up providing things like broadband Internet access to eight houses or, like here in California, the decades spent on the high-speed rail system which has gone absolutely nowhere (and never will).
(more…)Sit & Spin
Remember “the Great Rotation”? That was the cute phrase they trotted out earlier this summer to explain away why tech stocks were crumbling: “It’s nothing! Don’t you worry! Foks are just buyin’ small caps, that’s all!”
(more…)Dollar Beater
Below is a ratio chart of gold to the US dollar index. The basing pattern is complete, and we have ripped away from it. The last time this happened was late February 2020………..and I could have sworn, that’s when things started to get really, really interesting.