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Intraday Off the Charts

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In recent weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time and money on our data back end. I’d like you to know of a meaningful improvement that is now live, which is higher quality intraday charts.

A week or so ago, I wrote to the Gold and Platinum folks about this, but it’s even better now. There are two huge improvements:

  1. The history goes back a full 120 days, vastly more than before, with minute-bar granularity.
  2. The chart is updated during the day, and you will have the latest real time bars on the chart! With NO EXCHANGE FEES!

I’d also like to mention that Slope cleans up the data which, I assure you, has been notoriously dirty for my entire multi-decare career. This is what 120 days of minute bar data looks like with SlopeCharts filtering:

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