Slope of Hope Charts & Technical Analysis for Short Sellers
Technical analysis from one of the most-followed chartists in the U.S., Tim Knight, who founded Prophet, runs Slope of Hope, and was a founding member of tastytrade. Tim has also written multiple books about charting and started trading in 1987.
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Can We Get a Divorce? (opens the original)
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The latest utterly and completely implausible PCE (inflation) numbers came out. In spite of what your lying eyes tell you, the month-over-month price increase was 0.2%, and they even had the temerity to drop the prior month’s price change to a mere 0.1%. Uh-huh. Anyway, these super-soft and totally not motivated by a major election in 34 days caused all equity futures to spike, such as the /NQ:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-gMH!,f_auto
Concentrate! (opens the original)
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One of these days, I need to realize to not even bother looking at the IG Weekend. I seriously think there are two guys trading the thing, the bid/ask spread is a mile wide, and it seems to have precious little correlation to what the futures will do when they open each Sunday afternoon.This weekend, for instance, it looked like the markets would open totally flat, and yet every asset was sinking all night long, as illustrated here by the /NQ futures:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
Precious Metals (opens the original)
Is Precious Ready? (opens the original)
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Before I begin, let us acknowledge the completion of the historic Trump/Xi summit in which absolutely nothing of substance at all was accomplished or announced, with the notable exception of Elon Musk balancing some silverware on his fingertips for the amusement of the tech titans table.<div cla
Thursday Market Wrap (opens the original)
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