Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Weighing The Options

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In mid-September I wrote a post looking at a big inflection point on equities, and the large decline we could see from there on the pattern setup. Let’s see how that’s looking now.

There were two big nested double top setups that had formed on Dow and SPX. The first of those was on Dow and that has gone high enough since to destroy the setup. While that has happened though Dow has established a high quality rising wedge from the Oct 2023 low that is holding so far, and that has wedge support currently in the 40,000 area.

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Crypto – If Not Now, Then

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Last week I was writing about the solid short setup forming on Crypto and have been looking at it every day in my premarket videos. That setup has played out now, all the daily sell signals I was looking at on BTCUSD (Bitcoin), ETHUSD (Ethereum) and SOLUSD (Solana) formed, fixed and have now made their full targets at the 30 level on the daily RSI 5.

So what now? Well we’re seeing a rally today which I was looking for on yesterday’s premarket video, and a likely backtest of key resistance is coming. On Bitcoin that resistance is at the daily middle band, currently at 62,604. A break and conversion of that to support opens the upside.

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