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.
Fractured Fairy Tale
It was a good day today for the bullish precious/bearish equity crowd. It was diminished somewhat, of course, by the knee-jerk BTD mentality so deeply burned into the public mindset, as everything bottomed out close to the open and rallied for most of the session. Still, we ended the day crashing almost half a percent on equities. More important, we lifted to lifetime highs on gold. Here’s the NQ:

Labor Day ETF Review
Chinese Resistance
It seems to me that long-term broken trendline for the Chinese fund FXI, represented in dashed blue, suggests formidable resistance to any higher prices from these levels.

