One by one, the March 23rd trendlines are breaking. Good stuff.

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We have genuinely reached a decision point, represented by the intersection of they key trendlines I’ve drawn.

Just to start I want to state a clear health warning for the historical stats I’ll be weighing at the start of this post. This stats can give a useful lean, but even an 80% bullish lean still assumes 20% odds that the market closes higher that day, and this lean in either direction does not carry with it any indication of how far up or down markets might close. That said, as a tool in the technical toolbox these are always worth looking at in my opinion, and often deliver decent results.
In my intraday video on Thursday and my premarket videos on Friday and this morning at theartofchart.net I was looking at the historical stats for those days and for this week and proposing a possible course that SPX might take into the end of this week.
(more…)Preface to all four parts: This weekend, I am sharing my (rather small) portfolio of 37 short positions. I have gathered them up into four distinct groups. This group consists of positions based on charts in which a recent pattern has also occurred one or more times in the same stock’s history.

Preface to all four parts: This weekend, I am sharing my (rather small) portfolio of 37 short positions. I have gathered them up into four distinct groups. This group consists of positions based on stocks which recent prices are, in my opinion, just too damned high! More specifically, stocks that seem very “stretched” to the upside.
