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.

Groundhog Gyrations

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Last week, as we approach trading on Thursday (green oval), I figured it was all over for the bears. Everything was positive for the bulls, we seemed poised for lifetime highs across the board, IBM and META were blowing doors off, etc. You know what happened next. Conversely, on Sunday night (red oval), I was in here high fiving everyone about how the wheels were coming off, Bitcoin was crashing, the /NQ was plunging, and then…………Monday…………green across the board! Let’s just say overnight sessions often don’t mean a damned thing.

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King Dong

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The world is changing fast, folks. Gold hasn’t blasted THOUSANDS of dollars higher in the past few months just because mankind discovered how to craft it into jewelry. Silver hasn’t blasted HUNDREDS of percent higher in the past few months just because everyone decided to hammer out Ankh-shaped amulets of the stuff in their garage. This is a big deal, and one which my ratio charts telegraphed three years ago.

Last night was no exception, as gold rocketed to – – here come those words again – – a new lifetime high. As I am typing this, /GC is up about $175, well over 3%.

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Rude Awakening

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Thanks to you-know-who, I was awakened at 4 this morning instead of my usual automatic 5:20 circadian rhythm awakening, which completely threw off my sleep schedule. Thus, I woke up at 7:16, which might as well be 2 p.m. considering how I like to run my day. In any case, here I am, and Slope is still humming along.

Besides the wake-up paw-in-my-face, what was also not appreciated was this:

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