Data released today (Friday) shows that inflation dropped last month in the Canadian Core CPI and CPI, as shown on the graphs below. (more…)
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.
Shorting Japanese Hockey Stick
I haven’t monkeyed around with Japan for a long time, but the Nikkei’s ascent (fueled entirely by a crushing of their currency) is just plain dumb. I’m shorting this ridiculous move by way of DXJ, which is a hybrid of both their currency and their stocks. Because the graph’s ascent is so sharp, I had a lot of empty space, so for no particular reason I’ve put in a picture of a Japanese woman’s legs wearing boots. So to you fetishists out there: you’re welcome.
Nikkei, Toyota, Tesla
Hedging The Most Actively Traded ETFs
Hedging The Most Actively-Traded ETFs
Fellow Slopers,
In this post we’ll look at the costs of hedging the most actively-traded ETFs, but first, a quick update on an old post. A couple of years ago on Slope (“A Nano Cap Bargain“), I mentioned I had purchased a few shares of nano cap mobile phone accessory maker, Wireless Xccessories Group (WIRX). Shares of WIRX were up significantly this week, after the company announced sizeable revenue gains. As I noted in my post a couple of years ago, it’s a thinly-traded OTC stock, with all the risks that implies, so caution is warranted. Now onto the most actively-traded ETFs. (more…)
Around The World In 30 Seconds
Although it took over two hours of analysis and to annotate these charts, with a few clicks of the mouse you should be able to travel around the world to view nearly all of the major global equity indexes from a technical perspective in under a minute. All of the indexes below are shown with the daily time frame chart first followed by the weekly time frame, except for the $HKHS, in which the weekly chart was substituted with the more significant monthly chart. The following indices are shown in this order: $SPX (S&P 500), $TSX (Toronto), $BSE (Bombay), $SSEC (Shanghai), $HKHS (Hong Kong), $NIKI (Tokyo), ($DAX (Frankfurt), $CAC (Paris), and the $FTSE (London). (ProTip from Tim: right-click your mouse over any given thumbnail so that the image shows up in a separate tab).
