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.

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The data feed at Stockcharts.com went down on Monday night and is still down, though they did manage to update with some daily data yesterday night. For the moment all of my shorter term charts are down, and the irritation I felt on Monday when the AAPL split deleted every trendline on my saved AAPL charts is now just a distant memory of better times.

I’ll be looking at alternatives for my shorter term charts today, mainly in case this outage at Stockcharts becomes a regular thing, but in the interim this is going to be a shorter and narrower post than usual. (more…)

A Pleasant Surprise

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It probably comes as no big surprise that I was a little nervous publishing my Why We Fight post. One of the problems with being really open and honest is that it can make you vulnerable to attack (or at least severe misunderstanding). And even though I crafted my words respectfully, I was concerned that Molecool and ConvictScott might take my post the wrong way, and I was prepared to defend my point-of-view. (more…)