I am delighted to announce the release of SlopeCharts, which you can access from the Charts menu of the site. Everyone has free access to the product (although Slope+ users, God bless them, have special privileges, including access to much more data, the ability to “Favorite” data series, and the power to save customized charts for easy access later). Oh, and remember, the price of Slope+ is about to crank up by 50%, so lock in the low price while you can! (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.
Rates of Interest
The following is excerpted from this week’s Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 247:
As the 10-year to T-bill yield curve chart makes clear, we are not in Kansas anymore. We are in Wonderland and as you can see, in Wonderland interest rates and their interrelationships are at the center of events. (more…)
Runaway Russell Epiphany
This is an important post. At least I think it is. I was going to say it was the most important post I had ever made, but I didn’t want to oversell it.
This morning, I was looking at a long-term history of the Russell 2000 (what else does one do on a Saturday morning?) and something caught my eye. I noticed how similar price action over the past few years was to the late 1990s. (more…)
O Fortuna
This is quite a curious life I’ve chosen for myself. (more…)
Uranus is Bleeding
I would love to be able to say to you that God came to me in a dream last night and provided me clairvoyance as to the future of the equities market. Sadly, I did have dreams all last night, but they were – and I am not making this up – about urea. I learned recently that there is a futures market in the stuff, and I guess my subconscious found this deeply troubling, so I spent an entire night dreaming about talking with loved ones about urea. . (more…)
