A Community of Chart-Focused Traders

Slope of Hope is Tim Knight's award-winning site where active traders create charts, get trading ideas, and share knowledge.
No matter what you trade, you're going to improve your skills here, as countless others have since 2005.

Slope has been deemed by Investopedia as one of the "top technical analysis" websites around.

Becoming a "Sloper" is free, opens up a terrific toolkit, and premium members get unlimited content and power features.
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Virtual Trading

Trade without the trauma! There is absolutely no better way to hone your skills than with the realistic trading simulation Slope has created. Trade option, stocks, ETFs with your $100,000 in synthetic trading dollars.

Virtual Trading

Analyze Options

Options are the most popular trading instrument among Slope of Hope users, so it is a major focus for this site. There are a number of products on Slope designed to help options traders in their exploration and analysis, such as the payoff graph, volatility charts, price change charts, earnings reaction charts, and the exclusive OptionDots system, built directly into SlopeCharts.

Strategy Guide

Browse Our Blog

Since early 2005, Slope has been the go-to place for tens of thousands of articles about technical analysis, trading psychology, and ideas for both long and short positions. Stay on top of market events and new ideas from fellow traders around the world.

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Use Volatility

Volatility is the most important element of options trading, and Slope has deep information on IV Rank, Volatility Charts, a Volatility Matrix for any symbol array, price cones, and many other IV-based trading tools. We are also pleased to license the best-quality options data in the industry while still keeping our own subscription prices extremely affordable.

Explore Options

Create SlopeCharts

Charts are a critical part of investing life. There are many charts available online, but none of them are like SlopeCharts,  the brainchild of Slope founder, Tim Knight. SlopeCharts, which is available free of charge, embraces several core values: (1) Ease of Use: Using SlopeCharts is intuitive, simple, and a breeze to learn (2) Organized: There is no charting product in the world that comes close in watch list management, which is how you keep your trading world in good order (3) Patterns-Focused: History tends to repeat itself.

Make Chart

Develop SlopeRules

SlopeRules is a feature in SlopeCharts which lets you create a trading system using discrete technical rules for entering and exiting positions. It is deliberately designed to be intuitive and very simple to use, and it is closely integrated with the SlopeCharts platform. Unlike other trading systems, you don't need to learn code like a programmer. Instead, just drag and drop the rules that make sense to you, test them in real time, and get automatic alerts.

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Join Our Community

The community of Slope is the most active of any financial blog, with millions of comments posted. You'll find it educational, so join the discussion!

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Explore SocialTrade

Best described as "the Pinterest for technical analysis", SocialTrade lets you post and view charts, images, and articles for you and other traders. There are thousands of charts, articles, and other items crowd-sourced and thoughtfully organized in the SocialTrade system for your perusal.

Browse Stacks

About Tim Knight

An active trader since 1987, Tim founded Prophet.net, which was honored multiple times by both Forbes and Barron’s as the best technical analysis site on the web. Prophet was acquired by Ameritrade in 2005, which is when Tim began his new creation, the Slope of Hope. The author of dozens of books about technology and stocks, and most recently the creator of SlopeCharts, Tim continues to write for Slope every day of the year.