I put together this potent little graphic a few days ago.
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.
Quicksilver
We’re just over an hour into the trading day, and it’s look good so far. Below are my fifteen bearish positions (I am long puts on all of these, expiring no sooner than January 17 2025). Three are up a tiny bit, but on the whole it’s a really good morning.
Dialing Back Thirty Months
Using liquidity data from the Federal Reserve was all the rage a couple of years ago on Slope, but I don’t mention it as often as I used to. I’d like to make an exception today, because I was quite taken by the chart created with this easy-to remember symbol:
(((FR:WALCL-((FR:WTREGEN1000)+(FR:RRPONTSYD1000)))/1000)/1.1)-1625+(FR:H41RESPPALDKNWW/250)
The juicy stuff – – and, yeah, it’s pretty juicy – – is below just for paying subscribers, so here goes:
(more…)The Sheer Madness of Nvidia
You’ve all seen how bonkers the charts are, but this one takes the cake: NVDA’s market cap is nearly 12% of the entire GDP of the United States. Compare that to the king of the Internet bubble disasters, Cisco. This analog has out-analog’d itself.
An Eerie Parallel
The boys at Elliott Wave mentioned something about the remarkable (and perhaps nothing more than coincidental) parallels between 2007 and 2024:
