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.

The Badgers Are Angry

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I’m leaving theartofchart.net today, my main base for almost nine years now, and setting up a new site at chartingthemarkets.substack.com though I seem to have unintentionally picked a really wild day to do that, so this is my second post today to cover the setup here on equity indices as well as my previous post today on crypto.

Why am I leaving theartofchart.net? Well many reasons really, but I’ve told a few people over the years that a collaboration between chartists might be reasonably compared to musicians forming a band. There comes a time when it is just time to move on, and I want to expand on my premarket videos and deepen my work and involvement with cryptos which it will now be easier to do.

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Sahm Is Not a Sham

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..but There Is Much More To The Picture As Our Long Held Plan Engages

The Sahm Rule is getting airplay, but Sahm is not what I am… it is just one unexceptional and somewhat lagging indicator to the coming recession

“We are pointed toward recessionary dynamics”… well, no shit Sherlock.

Claudia Sahm talks about the “big lever still to pull” by the Fed. That being a plethora of interest rate cuts. Sahm talks about the unemployment rate, and other things indicative of recession. Article with video:

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Stolen Thunder on Solana

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I was laying out a possible bearish scenario on SOLUSD (Solana) on Thursday morning. It wasn’t my main scenario but I was saying that on a break under support at 165, it might well deliver. I was planning to write about that in a post this morning as something we would likely see this week. Annoyingly however, I see that my downside target was reached this morning, so I am regretting not writing the post on Saturday. You can see that premarket webinar from Thursday 1st Aug here, and I start talking about crypto at 06.26.

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