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.

Dynamic Evening

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First off, if Slope is acting odd for you, please read the prior post.

More substantively, as I stand here Sunday night, the markets are roiling. I’m not sure if it was Trump’s 50% boost to the tariffs he established only on Friday, or the Iran situation, or just a crazy-overvalued market ,but equities are down nearly 1% across the board (as of now, at least; you know how these things can turn).

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Ride or Die

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Through no fault of our own – – NOT THAT IT MATTERS! – – Slope started acting funny on Sunday. Not “ha ha” funny but “what the hell is wrong with this site?” funny.

The very, very good news is that we know precisely what happened, which is that the brainiacs who control Apache code thought it would be a great idea to update their code base and render a bunch of legacy rules completely unreliable. The not-at-all good news is that I can’t make any promise at all when things will be rock solid again. Suffice it to say this has the most urgent priority with our host provider and I, having 43 positions open and with the market in total turmoil, could not be MORE incentivized to get things rocking again. It’s going to get fixed ASAP, and I’ll let you know when it’s done.

Onward, Mishka!

Live Rounded Top (2 of 2)

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Preface to all parts: the market in general is rather uninspiring right now. There are plenty of individual stocks, however, with very interesting patterns. I have gathered up dozens of the most interesting charts and put them into groups for your perusal. This particular set includes well-formed topping patterns which are somewhat distinct from head and shoulders. There are so many of these that I have broken them into two posts.
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Live Rounded Top (1 of 2)

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Preface to all parts: the market in general is rather uninspiring right now. There are plenty of individual stocks, however, with very interesting patterns. I have gathered up dozens of the most interesting charts and put them into groups for your perusal. This particular set includes well-formed topping patterns which are somewhat distinct from head and shoulders. There are so many of these that I have broken them into two posts.
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