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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.
Bigger and Rounder
The human predilection for big round numbers is unceasing. On Friday, when the Dow crossed 50,000 (see all those big round numbers??) for the first time ever, the cult distributed this:
Shorts Leashed
In contrast to my earlier “Unleashed” post, these are open short positions which are on a very tight leash. In other words, I don’t trust them quite as much as the other set, so I’ve got a tight stop-loss on them all. All the same, I like the patterns enough to have them as live positions.
Shorts Unleashed
Here are a dozen charts of live short positions which I am confident will be A-OK, even with the quadruple-digit rally on Friday. These patterns are large, powerful, and ready to take on the bulls!
More Cushion for the Pushin’
It is my fervent wish that the mega-rally we saw on Friday will be remembered as a fantastic bull trap. Some of the big ETFs suggest that it will be.
The first chart, that of the Dow 30 ETF, has not a single bearish thing about it. This is a clean breakout to lifetime highs.
