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.
Some carefully-chosen charts I’ve created in SlopeCharts with data from our friends at the Federal Reserve. Draw your own conclusions. I’ve certainly drawn mine. Click any chart for a big version, and note the description is thoughtfully captioned by your favorite financial blogger.
I most often use linear scale charts for stocks, markets and indicators for their more absolute views. But in the case below we conjure up a long-term log scale chart showing the Gold/Silver Ratio (GSR) and the S&P 500 (SPX), as it works better in providing a percentage-based relationship between an indicator of market liquidity and inflation when declining and lack of liquidity, deflation or… it has to be said, Goldilocks, when rising.
Now, when viewing the most recent Goldilocks phase, where SPX has gone in positive correlation with the GSR we will have to suspend disbelief that this is anything normal or natural. It was created by will of man as first the Bernanke Fed conjured a balls out inflation out of 2008’s deflationary destruction and then as a crowning achievement, concocted Operation Twist in order to manipulate the bond market into flashing this signal… ‘Nope, no inflation here!’
(more…)First of all, thanks to all of you who attended the webinar yesterday afternoon for TradeMachine Pro. It’s an extraordinary product, and as Ophir said, Slope of Hope readers get a 35% discount on the subscription – – plus they can try it for a month and cancel for a full refund if they don’t like it. So give it a try.
Since we are just getting into the thick of the earnings season, I wanted to offer a quick reminder as to the ways you can access earnings date information here on Slope: (each title is hyperlinked to the page)
(more…)Attention, attention. This is important.
I am some very good, very exciting news. And I’d like to introduce this wonderful news by telling you about a terrible problem I didn’t know existed.
A little more than a week ago, a Sloper wrote me, puzzling over a few of the earnings dates on the site. He showed me, one by one, how some of our earnings dates didn’t match with what the company itself was reporting. It was a polite, well-researched email, and he was absolutely correct.
(more…)I’m very excited to tell you we’ve made great progress on brokerage integration. For the moment, this is focused on Tradier, although if this meets with success, we’ll expand from there. This is currently in test mode, but if you’ve got a Tradier account, I’d love for you to try it out. (You need to log in first for it to work).
There are three ways to get to the trading screen. From the Tools menu in SlopeCharts:
