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One of the countless benefits of paid membership is access to Time Perspective Charts, and we’ve just added a new feature that one of you suggested: the ability to Show Present Day on the chart.
If this is checked, a red vertical line will be placed on the chart corresponding to the present day of the year. This is invaluable for assessing, relative to the present, what the trend for the balance of the year tends to be. Cool stuff, huh?
Here is the long-term corporate bond total return index. Bonds perform well, but they start losing steam in the 2010s as interest rates are suppressed. The Fed slashed rates into 2020, then spiked them. Investors holding corporate bonds lost all profits back to 2016 at the 2022 low.
I’m a neat freak. Felix Unger. OCD. Anal-retentive. A order nut. Call it what you will.
I like things to be clean, organized, and in their place. This is woven into Slope’s DNA, with one glaring exception: our intraday charts have always been littered with the kinds of data errors that have been part and parcel of the financial data industry since time began. It’s just plain gross, and always has been, and it renders the charts useless.
My recognition of the sinewave pattern on the retail fund XRT has produced splendid results.
