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.

Dialing Back Thirty Months

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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:

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The Meaningless Top

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This is a great example of how a stock has a personality by way of how it has behaved in the past. Take Costco (COST) as an example. See the nice, neat topping pattern on the leftmost side of the chart? Notice how it didn’t amount to anything? Well, that’s precisely what just happened again. I had puts on it but got out at a small loss Thursday when I realized that this thing is just too robust, as it has plainly demonstrated in the past.

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April Stutter

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Most analogs offered these days borrow price data from many years, or even decades, ago. I’d like to offer something more recent. I was wondering to myself what the last major dip in the market looked like just before it commenced. I noticed a sizable “stutter” to the market’s ascent in 2021, and I couldn’t help but notice we had exactly the same thing happen in April of this year.

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