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.

An Unwelcome Saucer

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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:

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Junior Samples

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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.