As I am typing this, equities are blasting higher across the board. That is undeniable. However, bonds just aren’t buying it. The bond market tends to be quite a lot shrewder than equities, and I think it’s worth noting that bonds basically topped out late in 2023 and have been meandering more-or-less lower ever since.
(more…)Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Bonds Behaving Beautifully
The title says it all: as a chartist, I must stand up and salute TLT, as it is behaving absolutely As God Intended ™.
(more…)The Bond that Binds
Sorry for the blank post earlier, folks! I got mightily distracted with some surprising news. In any case, the point I wanted to make was about bonds, seen here by way of TLT, which as you can observe was nicely rejected by its broken trendline late in December 2023.
(more…)Bond Bear Persists
That trendline mattered!
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