Data released today (Friday) shows that inflation dropped last month in the Canadian Core CPI and CPI, as shown on the graphs below. (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.
Gold Gap Retrospection
Back on April 26th, I sent an exclusive post to Slope+ readers stating that gold had reached an important gap; here’s the chart I showed: (more…)
Precious Metals Finally Succumb
Yesterday evening, I was glad to see gold finally starting to break down a little. It has spent the prior seven trading days in a very tight range. The breakdown starting accelerating some more this morning, and I think we’ve finally got a good chance to escaping this range.
HUI, Gold and Silver Potential Bear Flags
Here are some possible bear flags in the making, compliments of the precious metals sector. These are weekly charts and the flags may not yet be mature. Indeed, we have been managing a would-be rally by the miners off of the capitulation low of a couple weeks ago, and that is still in progress.
On Sale, Huh?
There’s a precious metals dealer in my town that has, in recent years, been paying for very big ads in the local paper. Until recently, their headline read “Record gold prices? It is only the beginning!”
For obvious reasons, they’ve moved away from that headline, since it stopped being true, oh, about two freaking years ago. Now they’ve got a much smaller ad with a much different headline:
