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.

Introducing Superlists

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When Slopecharts was first created many years ago, the foundation of the product was excellent watch list management. This has been taken a step further with the Superlist feature.

Take a situation in which you have multiple portfolios, and you keep your bearish and bullish positions tracked among a variety of appropriately named watch lists. All the symbols are in their various buckets. Until now, there was no way to have a view into the entire “bucket” in which all the symbols could be consolidated. Instead, the symbols were just spread around in small groups.

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Known Knowns

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It’s been super stressful in recent days but today is different. Just yesterday, I was ankle-deep in garbage in my office (thanks, Duke!) and I did something I don’t think I’ve ever done in my life, which is ask my wife to get me something to drink (chai, my drink of choice during trading hours). I thought my head was going to explode! There was just so much going on.

Today is totally different. So much so that I wanted to lay out some known issues on the site that are going to get addressed, as we say here in Silicon Valley, real soon now. Rest assured; we intend to get every single one of these things dealt with by this weekend:

  • Super Lists – this feature is sorta kinda working, but it isn’t updating in real time yet, which is crucial. I will note that the symbols Gold/Platinum folks are seeing in my shared watch list do represent a fairly accurate picture, but of course what we want is 100% accurate and up to date.
  • Home Page Zaniness – a handful of folks aren’t able to get to the Slope Tiles home page.
  • CryptoStream – this hasn’t working for about a week due to a total API change by the data vendor.

Running Slope is definitely 365 days a year operation but count on me to get this stuff working again.

Should Grok Come to Slope?

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As much as I’ve griped about AI, my griping has way more to do with the super-expensive (well, until recently) valuations than the technology itself. I use Grok (where my beloved son was one of their earliest employees) pretty regularly, and I wanted to share a very simple example of how I use it.

There’s a newsletter from Substack called The Bear Cave which, you will not be surprised to know, I find interesting. There’s a problem, though. It’s a total wall of text. Page after page after page of commentary and musings. I don’t want to read all that stuff. I just want to look at charts, of which they published none.

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