One of the countless features on Slope which doesn’t get the attention it deserves is the Time Perspective chart. Let’s use volatility as an example. Here is a historical chart of the VIX. Pretty boring, right?
A Different Slice of Volatility
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.
Powerful Pairs
There are two premium features I used in SlopeCharts to create this post: Custom Symbols and access to the Economic Database. I created a variety of ratio charts, nine of which I found interesting enough to share here. I’m going to show everyone one of them, but the other eight are for paying members only (Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum).
The first ratio chart I wanted to show was the All World index divided by the continuous contract of gold prices. Why on earth would I choose this goofy combination? Simple: because gold is real money, and by representing global equities with real money, it provides a vastly more realistic (indeed, the ONLY realistic) view into what global equities have actually done over the decades.
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MetaSymbol Improvements
There are three improvements to our recently-introduced MetaSymbols feature I wanted to draw to your attention.
Speed
It’s way faster! We calculate all MetaSymbols on-the-fly, and we’ve drastically sped up this process so you can get to your chart faster.
Filter
Since this is a new feature, there aren’t too many symbols yet, but eventually there will be way more. In order to navigate these easier, you can type any text into the entry box to see only the MetaSymbols which contain that text.
Symbols
Finally, if you are curious what the component symbols are for any given MetaSymbol, just point to the symbol itself, and a small, scrollable window of the alphabetically-sorted components will appear.
My Portfolio’s Volatility
Slope is so vast, I often forgot some of the coolest tools we have here. One I just stumbled upon is the Volatility Matrix, described in detail here. Below are my 15 current put positions laid out on this matrix. Interesting stuff!
