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.

Rain Forest of Charts

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This afternoon, Amazon (AMZN) will be the final exciting earnings event of the season. Afterward, it’s going to be mostly humdrum stuff until it fizzles into nothing (then, weirdly, NVDA has their moment in the spotlight on the 26th).

Amazon is a rather steady stock, being a $2.5 trillion behemoth whose defining characteristic is the ascending price channel, where it has been banging around for almost all human history.

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Take a Shortcut!

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Since some of you missed my video last night about this cool feature, I thought I’d just share it here text-wise.

Using the mouse to do such things as tagging a security or moving symbols from watch list to watch list can be a very time-consuming process. By setting up a keyboard shortcut, you can perform a variety of operations with the press of a function key on your keyboard.

To get there, just choose Preferences icon, which is located in the lower-left portion of SlopeCharts and resembles a gear. Next, click on the tab called Shortcuts. This provides everything you need to create these time-saving shortcuts.

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