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.

Crude, Coin, and Co-Opting

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Let’s cover three topics on this sun-isn’t-even-up morning.

Crude Scheming Fails

As I hope you know, last weekend the lovely people constituting OPEC – – which are basically a conglomeration of nations that would have NOTHING to offer the world were it not for the fact that, by sheer accident, a bunch of dinosaurs died beneath their ground hundreds of millions of years ago – – got together in their market-manipulating cartel and declared that, once again, they would SUPPRESS the natural energy supply in a shameless attempt to maximize their profits. As the arrow indicates, it worked great.

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Memorial ETFs: Energy

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Preface to all ETF posts this weekend: This is not a normal holiday weekend. Supposedly, when we return to the trading world Tuesday, there will be some resolution (or more chaos) regarding the debt ceiling. In the meanwhile, I have gathered together different families of ETFs for review, and I have stated my remarks in the caption area below each.

I would also like to note that, as a special this holiday weekend, I am giving away my Joy of Charting book, which I will ship to you free of charge for signing up at ANY subscription level. Just drop me a line when you subscribe to tell me where to send it. As an added bonus, I’ll also provide a copy of my Solid State audiobook for your listening pleasure, free of charge!

Although not energy per se, the DBC fund is dominated by crude oil. We can see how, for many months, the DBC has been ‘leaking away” from its broken channel.
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