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 Year Of The News Bomb
In my post on Monday 10th Feb I was looking at the bull flag setups on SPX and QQQ and the historically bullish lean through Tuesday 18th Feb and was projecting that we might well see retests of the all time highs on SPX and QQQ in that bullish window. We saw those all time high retests on QQQ on Friday 14th Feb and on SPX on Tuesday 18th Feb.
In my post on Wednesday 19th Feb I was looking at the very nice looking topping setups on SPX, QQQ and DIA and the historically bearish lean through Friday 28th Feb and suggesting that, if these patterns were going to deliver, then this bearish window would be a good time to get started on that.
So here we are, with that bearish window ending at the close tomorrow, with the stats for tomorrow leaning strongly bearish on SPX at 28.6% green closes historically.
(more…)And the Banned Played On
Is This Tomorrow?
I stumbled upon a comic book from 1947 (illustrated by a young Charles M. Schultz, of all people) that was distributed by the Catholic church and intended to scare the bejesus out of the public regarding the threat of communism. It’s actually a fascinating and fun “read” (it’s a comic book, after all) and rather chilling, considering the crumbling state of our political system. One needn’t be concerned about communism, per se, but the means with which a government is upended. You can read the entire comic for free here.
Severed
Do not be alarmed. A minority of you get Apple TV, and a subset of that group watches the television series Severance. This post doesn’t require knowledge or even interest in the show, but the show’s conceit is the basis for what I have to say.
The premise of the show is that a small number of people have consented to a medical procedure on their brain which allows a corporation to employ them during the day, and during that workday, they will have absolutely no knowledge of their lives, memories, or families outside the workplace. Even though there may be a single human being, there are two human experiences: the “innie” who is the worker and the “outie” who is the person outside the confines of the office.
