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.

Bigger. Cooler. Weirder.

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For the rest of August, we’re going to be doing a deep dive into the digital guts of Slope and tidying up the data feeds. Our first effort, whose results are live now, is the Big Movers page (whose data is also available in SlopeCharts and the home page). Not only is the quality of the data higher, but we’ve now provided you four dropdowns that didn’t exist until now.

Before, everyone was stuck with the same page with immutable parameters. Now you have literally dozens of possible pages to examine. Please try it out and email me any problems or issues you see. Thank you!

Let Me Pleasure You

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Slope is packed with such a ridiculous number of features, even I could not cite by memory everything we’ve got in here. If I had any sense, I’d just stop developing forever, but – – I don’t – – so, I won’t.

In any case, I’m curious what you’d most like to see next. Take one second of your day and tell me:

Saving and Sharing Screens

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We have yet another cool feature to share with the new Power Screener page here on Slope: the ability to save your settings as well as share those screening parameters with other Slopers.

Let’s suppose you set up some conditions to seek out stocks which were weakening (5 day EMA under 20 day EMA) yet were still generally uptrending (20 day EMA above 200 day EMA). You also set some of the sliders to only reveal stocks that had decent market caps and were relatively heavily traded.

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Screening on Slope

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There is a new feature on Slope, presently available to everyone, and it’s in beta form now, ready for testing. I encourage you to try it out and let me know any issues you find or feedback you’ve got. Slope of Hope’s Power Screener allows you to quickly and easily discover the stocks which meet parameters you define. The page itself is located here.

The page is exceptionally easy to use. You establish what parameters you want to use in your quest for a trading opportunity. The parameters can be oriented to the stock’s liquidity, its dividend yield, its recent price action or the behavior of its moving averages. As you can changing the parameters, the number of results updates in real time so you can create enough filters to establish a manageable size of securities to examine.

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