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We’ve Cleaned Up Our Act!

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I’m a neat freak. Felix Unger. OCD. Anal-retentive. A order nut. Call it what you will.

I like things to be clean, organized, and in their place. This is woven into Slope’s DNA, with one glaring exception: our intraday charts have always been littered with the kinds of data errors that have been part and parcel of the financial data industry since time began. It’s just plain gross, and always has been, and it renders the charts useless.


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