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.

What’s Next? (by Xerxes)

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted so I thought I’d throw my 2 cents into the mix. We’ve had quite a year so far. The bulls snatched the ball in March and really haven’t let go since then. We’ve rallied quite hard on a) bets against the Fed raising rates much further and b) the belief that AI will lead us into a new utopian future (my own cynicism perhaps keeps me too grounded to let that thought run too far in my mind, however). And after 3 full months of nonstop bullgasm, we finally see a potential breather occurring. Looking at the indices:

Nasdaq, Monthly.
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MetaSymbol Improvements

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There are three improvements to our recently-introduced MetaSymbols feature I wanted to draw to your attention.

Speed

It’s way faster! We calculate all MetaSymbols on-the-fly, and we’ve drastically sped up this process so you can get to your chart faster.

Filter

Since this is a new feature, there aren’t too many symbols yet, but eventually there will be way more. In order to navigate these easier, you can type any text into the entry box to see only the MetaSymbols which contain that text.

Symbols

Finally, if you are curious what the component symbols are for any given MetaSymbol, just point to the symbol itself, and a small, scrollable window of the alphabetically-sorted components will appear.