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.

SlopeMatrix is BACK!

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I am very pleased to let you know that, after a very long absence, the SlopeMatrix page is back! This is a great way to keep an eye on live quotes on any of your watch lists and even has basic portfolio features to track P&L. Even more important, the statistics and fundamental data are fantastic (and sortable!) There are probably some rough edges I’ll need to hone down this week, but it’s up and running and available to all users. Please email me directly with any hiccups, and I’ll be updating the documentation for this cool new page after the close on Monday.

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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