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.

The Spectacle, Gold and a New Financial Era

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Commoditization of humanity now exponentially worse as a new financial era engages and gold conspicuously clings to support

This is a financial market article that also delves into social commentary. The new macro, as exemplified by the 30 year Treasury Bond yield chart below, will bring change; both social and financial. The two are, of course, related. Here we do not come to firm conclusions, and so perhaps the article does not get picked up by some re-publishers. But in a time of change, I believe that the process of interpretation is more important than forming conclusions, just yet. Conclusions will be handled by trend followers, promoters and gurus, as they have been for decades.

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Reflecting on Utilities

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What has taken place with the Dow 15 Utilities (and its trade-able counterpart, the fund XLU) over just the past twenty days has been nothing short of extraordinary. It would be worthwhile to examine what has taken place with this instrument and what appears to be forthcoming.

Just to jump to the end of this film, here is the present Dow Utilities. The red arrow marks the point where I established my bearish position, and the green arrow marks where I established my bullish position. As some folks know (since I never stop talking about it), the bearish position created a profit of over 300% in just two weeks, although I got out at the +140% mark, a decision for which I haven’t stopped kicking myself.

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Gratitude Attitude

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I’ve had my Twitter account for 16 years, and over that span of time, I’ve sent out tens of thousands of tweets. Many have been nothing more that post notifications or “one off” charts that I’ve shared, and there have been plenty of them that have been edgy, saucy, or even provocative.

In spite of this, I’ve hardly ever caused a ripple on the water. Most of my tweets typically get anywhere from 10 to 20 Likes, and it’s usually from more or less than same people, even though I’ve got 24,500 organically-obtained followers. A couple of days ago, for example, I noted my dream world had zero taxes and zero government. Pretty crazy stuff. The reaction? Same as always: who cares? It’s just me musing.

On Friday, however, I sent out a tweet which, by my standards, was incredibly innocuous, and yet it provoked a relatively firestorm.

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Diamond Eyes

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I am inclined to apologize for my persistent navel-gazing about my XLU trade, but it merits examination, and there are lessons to be learned.

I was curious when I discovered – – and I use the word “discovered” very deliberately, since I’m exceptionally good at spotting patterns with my eyes/brain combo that computers simply cannot do – – the diamond pattern in the Utilities. It seems to me it took place way back on May 16, 2023.

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