Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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The Four Horsemen

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Cotton, Wheat, Corn and Soybeans

There were four big setups, each covering multiple tickers, that I was looking in my bi-weekly The Bigger Picture webinars last year and at the start of this year that looked very strong, but I was struggling to come up with any decent fundamental reasons why they might play out.

That changed when the US attacked Iran on 28th February, and since then I have been looking at these four big setups as follows:

War – I looked at the oil setups in my posts on 3rd and 13th March. Those setups have made the first targets but haven’t yet made the extension targets at retests of the 2022 highs on $BRENT, $WTIC and $GASO.

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Can Not Be Credible

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Good morning, everyone. With the ceasefire ending tomorrow, everyone’s on the edge of their seat about What’s Next. In the meanwhile, the big event everyone was excited about was the President showing up on CNBC an hour before the opening bell this morning.

In our tail-wags-the-dog world, the “analysis” is directed toward seeing what’s happening in the betting markets and figuring that someone knows the news before everyone else does.

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