I am bearish the Dow by way of October 17 $450 puts on DIA. Here’s a profile of how the individual components have been doing:
How About Now, Dow?
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.
Country by Country
Funny how most of Africa’s billionaires are still white fellas.
One Stock to Rule Them All
From early April through early August, Nvidia stomped its way relentlessly higher, more than doubling in price and curb-stomping anyone who dare got in its way.
Market Talk, Economy & Bond Market
A premium excerpt from this week’s edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 876
Market Talk
At this point, far into the broad market recovery rally with gold stocks so close to the primary target (HUI 500+/-) I want to make sure I am speaking clearly as a human, rather than mechanically as a TA or macro funda dork. That will probably shorten this report and possibly the next few reports to come, until something big happens.
Big? Well, a broad top and breakdown would be big. A Fed policy shift would be big. A significant US Dollar rally would be big (given it would be against a government that seems bent on devaluation), a precious metals upside blowout and reversal, a commodity failure, a precipitous decline in long-term Treasury yields, or a resumed rise in those yields. All big.
(more…)Final Data of the Week
After a very data-heavy week, the last chunk will be coming out an hour before the opening bell:
