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.

That Amazing Midline

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I am honestly in awe of how charts have been behaving the past couple of months. I have been doing this my entire adult life, and I’ve looked at literally millions of charts, but this must be one of the most chart-compliant markets (in retrospect!) I’ve ever seen. Just look at the NASDAQ 100, and focus on that dashed blue line, which is the midline of a multi-decade channel.

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The Way-Too-Easy Bounce

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The lifelong dichotomy remains the same: I am exceptionally pleased with my charting, which in retrospect was at Nostradamus levels, whereas I’m sorely disappointed in my personal trading. Mercifully, you only get part #1.

Below are some conjectures about where a bounce might take us. If these actually take place, the market gods aren’t even TRYING, because these are just way too obvious. But for what it’s worth……….

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