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.

Three Pearls & Swine

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Over the past forty-eight hours, there were three posts I am especially proud to have penned:

  1. Russell Resistance (a PREMIUM post) which basically nailed the peak in the Russell 2000 futures to the millisecond. Incredible! The funny thing is that one guy did a comment. It just sat there, dead. I really wonder if anyone reads this stuff.
  2. The Dream Academy, which spelled out my ideal for the IWM. I thought it might take weeks to transpire, but it’s already well underway, and precisely as I had hoped.
  3. Now or Never, which was specifically about shorting energy by way of the XLE
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Vital Idle

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Today was a wickedly important today. Unlike last week (both Monday and Friday), we didn’t get the complete sham of “down hard in the morning, up green by the close” nonsense that the fraudsters at the Fed shoved down everyone’s throats. We got an honest-to-God down day with some important failures. Let’s review.

First, we have the Dow Jones Composite which has FAILED ITS UPTREND. Huzzah!!

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