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.
Pricey Thanksgiving Türkiye
Big Trade Now or After a Summer Dip?
Commodity Rally, Led by Gold, Silver & TSX-V:
The commodity rally, such as it has been so far, should take on a new intensity, possibly after a summer cool-down
Below I present for you one of those charts trying to say so much it could make your eyes water and your head spin. The chart is trying to quantify the history of loosely related markets (gold, silver, broad commodities and even the Canadian TSX-V index).
The reason we are doing this work is not to be bullish on the gold price, which we have been since the monetary metal took out the bull gateway (1378) in 2019. It is not to be bullish on silver, which is and has been bullish (in a lagging manner to gold) since its pattern breakout a year ago.
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I Don’t Want to Be Zos
Since markets have been shuttered and we’ve all been forced to take a day off because of, well, that thing, I’d like to do a post about Jeff Bezos.
At the outset I’d like to say that the Jeff Bezos of the 1990s is someone I deeply respect and admire. Here he is in Amazon’s first real office, using an old door as his desk.
