Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Tim Schnook

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Apple is the king of kings, and host of hosts, when it comes to equities. Break this stupid thing, and the whole world falls apart. This channel is terribly important. Take careful note of the series of lower highs WITHIN the confines of the ascending channel. The notion of the market making all time highs from these levels seems, to me, unlikely. It’s all up to Apple. It is the ultimo hombre.

Europa

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Let’s jump overseas and look at a few interesting outside-the-US ETF charts.

First up is the Eurozone, which is sporting a massive rounded top pattern. The monster question has to do with those two horizontal lines – – has the bounce stopped, or is it going to keep pushing to the higher line? There’s precious little activity between those two lines, so if this peculiar dose of optimism keeps flowing, we could well ascend to the next horizontal (at which time things would more than likely cease climbing).

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