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.
In the grand scheme of things, consider the area above current price on the following 50-year (monthly) chart of the SPX as the top of an iceberg…and the area below as its foundation beneath the surface of an ocean.
There is a fundamentally-solid foundation of (economic) support below the surface to keep the U.S. economy afloat in these turbulent times.
My last few posts have been a coronavirus COVID-19 series, so I’m putting in the links here so as to refer back to them easily for now. These are the seven posts so far.
18th February – Peering Through The Fog Around Coronavirus COVID-19
24th February – Some Genuine Coronavirus Numbers Coming Through
28th February – Falling Down The Steps
9th March – A Tale Of Two Cities
20th March – A Short History of Superflu Pandemics
(more…)My last few posts have been a coronavirus COVID-19 series, so I’m putting in the links here so as to refer back to them easily for now. These are the six posts so far.
18th February – Peering Through The Fog Around Coronavirus COVID-19
24th February – Some Genuine Coronavirus Numbers Coming Through
28th February – Falling Down The Steps
9th March – A Tale Of Two Cities
(more…)
My last few posts have been a coronavirus COVID-19 series, so I’m putting in the links here so as to refer back to them easily for now. These are the four posts so far.
18th February – Peering Through The Fog Around Coronavirus COVID-19
24th February – Some Genuine Coronavirus Numbers Coming Through
28th February – Falling Down The Steps
9th March – A Tale Of Two Cities
(more…)Because I am a deeply-troubled person, I spent my Sunday morning looking at centuries-old financial data from the United Kingdom. SlopeCharts – – which, if you’re not, you really should be using – – has a jaw-dropping amount of data in its economic database, and for a lunatic like me, it’s great fun just trawling through it. Here are some gems I found (descriptions captioned):
The Nasdaq bubble popped in 2000 after motoring upward on increasing volume in two separate phases. Volume rammed upward and RSI diverged. Like shootin’ fish in a barrel it was, except that at the time I was too inexperienced to see it. It was a steep slope and blow out.
