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.

A New Way to Slope!

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It’s time to help me test something new!

Most of you know that Slope has had mobile apps on Android and Apple for years. They’re pretty good, and very well rated (4.8 stars on both platforms), but I’ve never been over-the-moon happy with them. I wanted to change that, so we’ve been working on something quite new, which is an app we are going to call SocialTrade.

The app isn’t ready to download yet on the Apple or Google Play platforms, because I want to put it through the paces first (plus we have some improvements to make). I would VERY much appreciate your help testing this, however, and I think you’d have fun trying something new.

Step One: you need to download an app called Expo Go on your Android or iOS device. Just search for that name in the App Store or Google Play.

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EW Has Given Up Guessing

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Our boys in Gainesville has finally cracked. After predicting the end of the world for eons, they’ve resigned themselves to just observing market extremes, slack-jawed, without offering any insights into when it’ll stop, how, or at what level. I just went through the latest Theorist (which only comes out once a month, so there’s tons of time to prepare), and it was nothing more than some folks in a car passing an accident, slack-jawed and astonished.

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