US manufacturing expanded again last month as July’s strong pace was maintained in August at 55%+. New orders increased at a healthy rate of nearly 5%, but right along with this prices also increased by 5%. (more…)
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.
Surreal Sadistic Syrian Subterfuge: Evil Plan 111.0
Light, Sweet, Crude Comparisons
Clearly there’s a shock wave going on with energy markets and crude oil in particular. The past couple days offer some great examples of how sometimes, there is no such thing as too high or too low. But how does this week’s Syrian conflict oil spike compare to prior conflicts? (more…)
ANR Trade Setup
ANR will trigger a long entry on a break above the downtrend line on the daily chart below. When trading breakouts of price patterns, waiting for confirmation of a closing print on the time frame of the chart that you are trading will help minimize getting sucked into buying (or shorting) a false breakout (or breakdown). e.g.- If trading off a pattern on a weekly chart, (more…)
