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.

Raging and Listless

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Greetings from rainy North Carolina. I’ll probably only say it a few hundred more times but expect much less Tim than you are accustomed to having until Monday morning. I’m exceptionally occupied, but I’ll try my best to do a post or three each day here on good old Slope.

Pre-market, the equity futures are all green (of course) but only by modest amounts. The /YM, shown here, has just been ambling along listlessly, digesting the eye-watering valuations the market has attained.

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Just Like That

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These days, it’s heartening to see any stock behave exactly how it’s supposed to behave with classic technical analysis.

I was reminded of this because of Klaviyo (KVYO) which lost about 33% of its value today. Amazingly, it’s an AI stock, but more importantly, it treated its right triangle top precisely as it should have: a retracement, then a plunge!