Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Break Up On Crypto

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All the new weekly pivots are on the daily charts posted below.

The last few days I have been watching the resistance at the daily middle band on all three of BTCUSD (Bitcoin), ETHUSD (Ethereum) and SOLUSD (Solana). An H&S pattern had formed and broken down on Solana, and another was still forming on Ethereum. If resistance at those daily middle band held then the setup was likely to break down further, into targets of 119 on Solana and 2,250 on Ethereum. On a sustained break up over those daily middle bands, and the failure of the H&S pattern on Solana on a break back up over the H&S right shoulder high at 152.17.

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AMD Disaster

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Here’s an example of a screw-up based on simply Too Much Going On.

This morning was rather chaotic. After five days on the road, and a lot of strenuous (for me) physical labor, I flew five hours back to my beloved Palo Alto. I got a late start (5:30 a.m.) and there were a bunch of technical issues I had to deal with on my systems. In the midst of it all, the market opened, and AMD exploded higher.

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