In a normal, sane market, I would actually buy these. As it is, though, I’m just sharing, just to mix things up a bit. I wouldn’t actually buy something in this market; are ya crazy?

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In a normal, sane market, I would actually buy these. As it is, though, I’m just sharing, just to mix things up a bit. I wouldn’t actually buy something in this market; are ya crazy?

The SPY ETF hit its supporting trendline to the pixel and immediately reversed (the QQQ has already broken the same trendline). If we break this line tomorrow, it’s party time. Otherwise, the bounce continues. I’ve extracted a bunch of cash out of my account and shoved it into the pockets of my khaki shorts. That explains the bulge.

My sleep schedule is pretty screwy during this trip, so I woke up at about 1 a.m. Palo Alto time (4 a.m. North Carolina time) and saw something I didn’t want to see. Yesterday, upon observing the /ES and /NQ futures, there were two specific levels that, if crossed, would constitute a completed saucer pattern, and wouldn’t you know it, those levels were heeded with near-perfect reverence for the importance of those patterns:

Just to say something positive for a change – – although gold seems to do little but disappoint me, I at least wanted to mention that the junior miners (symbol GDJX) has a couple of things going for it. One, it tagged the lower bound of is broadening pattern quite nicely, and two, its recent low is a higher low than before, which suggests strength. If it can clear its recent high, maybe we’ve got something substantive going on here.
