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.

Silver: This Is Awkward

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Damn. We’re Bullish On Silver Again

Well, this is awkward. Let’s drop the royal “we” for this post. I, David Pinsen, the founder of Portfolio Armor, called silver “The Family Circus of investments” a few days ago. That was an allusion to this scene in the 1999 movie Go where one character explains why he hates the comic strip The Family Circus.

Timothy Olyphant in Go (1999) explaining why he hates The Family Circus.
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Exchange Traded Funs

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Let’s stroll through the market by way of ten ETF charts. I have a few remarks about each of them, and I am presenting them in alphabetical order based on ticker symbol. As always, clicking on a chart will make it much larger, assuming your screen is big.

We begin with commodities, which are approaching their 78.6% retracement level as well as their pre-Covid peak. I daresay the momentum of this inflationary lift is just about done.

slopechart DBC
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