In the laboratory and test kitchens here at TFP, we have been having some fun with volatility. One of our latest studies focuses on statistically prominent inflections in order flow. A favorite setup for light, sweet, and sometimes crude oil is the Sunday Night Snapout – a nice surge right as the globex session opens on Sunday evenings after squeezing shorts the preceding week. (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.
Three I’m Watching Like a Hawk
A couple of days ago, I did a post for my Slope+ readers about buying XLU calls. I paid 80 cents for the calls, and now, two days later, they are trading at $1.60. I did not expect a 100% gain on these so swiftly, but suffice it to say I’m enamored of interest-rate sensitive items. (more…)
Hewlett Packard – Time to Short
I shorted HPQ on Monday based on the Fibonacci retracement as well as the prior gap.
