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.

Pop-Ups!

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One of the most popular new products on Slope lately has been SlopeAlerts, and with good reason. It provides a nearly real-time mechanism for getting notifications about stocks and crypto prices, including chart-based alerts. We have provided three different ways to get notices – – email, SMS text, or Telegram – – and now we’ve added a “bonus” method, which is accessible via this choice in SlopeCharts preferences:

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Poised

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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Powell Day. It’s a shameful pity that the entire world has to be at the mercy of a musings of a single man, but there we have it. As we all teeter at the edge of our seats for what everyone’s favorite Fed chairman has to say, here are five crypto charts which, having eased back over the past five days, seem the best-poised to lurch higher as long as there isn’t some kind of shock-event from the virtual Jackson Hole:

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Punks

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There has been some interest bubbling on Slope about NFTs, so I’m educating myself more deeply. I have stumbled upon one of the hot sites around, and again, I must conclude that either (a) I have become an utterly out-of-step fuddy-duddy or (b) the world has gone batshit insane. Allow me to present to you an image which sold recently for nearly $8 million. I would mention as an aside that is what I got for my company, Prophet, back in 2005.

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