
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.
Small Caps Egg to Crack
I know I’ve beaten the equity/precious metals ratio into the ground, but I can’t help myself, because the ratio charts are simply too amazing to ignore. In this instance, the small caps index (Russell 2000’s $RUT) divided by the long-term continuous contract of gold has completed a major reversal pattern, tinted in a lovely easter egg shade below.

Bracing for a Breakout
Equities down and Silver up. That’s precisely what I want to see! Looking at the one-hour bar chart of silver, we can see that it had an important fake-out late in October, which was pretty disappointing in its aftermath, and we’re going to have another go at conquering that horizontal line.

Natural Gas Upswing
In spite of plenty of wiggles along the way, natural gas (/NG) has been obeying its long-term sinewave beautifully. It would seem to me we’re at a cheap price point, relatively to the larger move in play.


