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.
Sunday ETF Review
Saturday ETF Review
Ignore Not the Corporate Bonds
In between bulk purchases of erasers, the boys down at Elliott Wave International often describe corporate bonds as “equities in drag.” Setting aside that disturbing imagery, I would point out that the fund representing these, shown below, is indeed looking pretty broken, and as exuberant as stocks are, don’t ignore the fact that bonds ain’t buying it.
ETF Theme: Steady
Preface to all posts: Instead of my typical ETF videos over the weekend, I went through all the charts and put them into certain groupings. In this post, I cover the ETFs that seemed appropriate for the grouping mentioned in this post's title.
This category is pretty much the “steady as she goes” group. We start off with semiconductors, which has become the most important sector in the entire universe. For all the wild swings, SMH is actually behaving itself quite placidly, making a steady series of higher highs and higher lows within its neatly-formed price channel that dates back for months.
