In case there’s some confusion, since, let’s face it, the country has many facets.

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.
I find these linguistic differences fascinating, particularly having grown up in Louisiana. Of course, I embrace all the pronunciations and descriptors from my youth, and if you ever want me to threaten your life, just try mispronouncing “pecan“.

On Monday, I did a lengthy premium post stating what marvelously uniform the wedge patterns in the indexes were, and how powerful a position the bears might be in (“I’ve never seen such gorgeous unanimity among such a wide variety of stock indexes“). On Tuesday, the market fell hard, agreeing with that assessment.
Today, of course, the market rallied mightily, but even in the face of such dire adversity, I did another premium post which pointed out that all that buying had merely pushed prices back to perfect points of resistance. As I stand here on Wednesday evening, that continues to be true, with a pixel-perfect tag of the trendline executed by the /RTY.

Take note of how what used to be support (green arrows) transformed (blue oval) into resistance (red arrow).
(more…)Just a bit of a victory lap with respect to my Ripple to Fall post from the 27th of October. The crypto fell 25% over the next nine days. The peak was the 27th. My post was the 27th. Not terrible!
