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.

ETF Theme: Resistance

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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.

Of the five posts I did this weekend about these ETF groupings, this is my favorite.

Starting with the Dow Industrial “diamonds” ETF, we see here how the trendline that used to define support is now resistance, and Friday’s high got quite close to tagging the underbelly of this line.

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ETF Theme: Range-Bound

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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.

The easiest charts to follow are those trapped within a price range. Of course, there will come some time that the price escapes from such a range, but one can approach a chart like this with the premise that the range is going to remain intact (until it doesn’t!) and set up the trade accordingly. Here is the fund for the emerging markets, which is not only range-bound but seems to be following a regular time pattern.

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ETF Theme: Exhaustion

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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 theme is about financial instruments which are, for lack of a better term, tired. Starting with commodities, you can see the pink zone creating a top (at a glacial pace) and then a languorous range, tinted in green.

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