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Sentiment and 11/3

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Preface from Tim: I want it made clear at the outset that I did not write this post. Most Slope posts are by me, but some come in through outside contributors, which I appreciate. I just don’t want anyone thinking I’ve backpedaled on my pledge to not write about politics myself. I haven’t. Anyway, here we go……….

Early polls combined with current news sentiment indicate Joe Biden is now the favourite in the presidential race.

Joe Biden is increasingly looking like the clear favourite to win the next U.S. presidential election. Biden has led since polling began, but he has widened this lead following Trump’s perceived mishandling of both the coronavirus pandemic and the public outcry over the death of George Floyd.

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Wedded Bliss

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I have another cool new feature in SlopeCharts to announce: Attached Studies. What on Earth is that? Well, let me tell you! What we’ve done here – – and I don’t know if I’ve seen this elsewhere, so let me know if I’m wrong – – is created a way for you to associate any study set with a specific symbol.

As you probably know, normally when you have technical studies “active”, they apply to every single symbol you examine. That’s the way it is on any website or any charting program. You choose the studies, and then you start going through your symbols, all of which will be enhanced by the studies.

There are some instances, though, when you don’t want that. perhaps there is one particular set of studies which you always want to see just for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and nothing else. Using this new feature, you can “attach” that specific study set specifically to the $INDU (or whatever the symbol might be) so that it reliably appears for that symbol and no other. In other words, you won’t have the nuisance (or have to remember) to apply that specific study when you look at that particular symbol.

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