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.

Tech Dividends?

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About Time Tech Stocks Begin To Reward Investor’s Patience

Third quarter earnings season is heating up Wall Street. Investors and analysts are keeping a close eye on the upcoming earnings sessions of some of the biggest mega-cap technology companies, hoping that they will deliver better-than-expected returns against the backdrop of sticky market conditions. 

Most investors are holding their breath, as the Magnificent Seven – Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL); Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN); Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL); Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT); Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA); and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) – are set to release their quarterly earnings in the coming weeks. These seven household names have added almost $4 trillion in market capitalization this year. 

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At Last! Smart Moving Averages…..

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There is no improvement to SlopeCharts that has been more requested than this one, and after literally years, I finally got around to making it happen: specifically, what we’ve done is make moving averages “smart” so that as you change granularities (daily to weekly to monthly or what have you) them the moving average will change itself to conform to your new granularity. This sounds really obscure, but trust me, people have been howling for this!

Here is the change to the dialog box we’ve made:

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