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.

Slope’s First Robot

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Slope is going to turn 18 years old this month. During that time, we’ve had something like 36,000 posts, and for every single one of them, at the bottom, I’ve had to type the words NEW POST, hyperlinked to the next post. It was a way to let people using the comments system (specifically, what we now call the “classic” comments, since all the cool kids are in SlopeTalk) know that it was time to move to the next post. I’ve seen other sites copy my behavior in this respect.

I am delighted to say I have finally fired myself from this job. Henceforth, the system itself will create this “comment“, and even better, it doesn’t bother showing it in SlopeTalk (where it has absolutely no meaning and, is in fact, superfluous garbage).

Suffice it to say I’m glad to be relieved of this tedious but vital task. Maybe I should claim that AI is behind it in order to create a media frenzy around my site.

Gold for Only Pennies

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For the first time in Slope’s nearly 18 year history, I’m finally able to do something I’ve always wanted to do, which is to give people a free trial of the site. Well, not exactly free. I’ve found in my experience that people who go for $0.00 stuff aren’t exactly great customers, but after a lot of technical wrangling, I’ve created a way to give people a super cheap (like 99 cents cheap) way to try the site. To take advantage of it, click here. It’ll get you all the privileges of the Gold membership for less than a buck. If that’s too much of a risk for you, I seriously have no idea what you think you’re doing in the world of self-directed trading. Anyhoo……….

What a Pane!

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I am pleased to let you know about another improvement in SlopeTalk.

Specifically, we have made it possible for you to collapse the entire left panel.

Normally, it’s helpful to see what other Slopers are online and what posts are available, but in case you want to dedicate more of the screen to those sweet, sweet comments (especially if they don’t vanish), you can make the entire left portion vanish with a single click.

This will be especially handy for you people on tablets, since you could probably use the extra real estate.

We are continuing to add a few last touches to the product.

Enjoy!

M_ss_ng Mes_ag_s

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Beloved Slopers………with the introduction of the oh-my-God-so-cool and yet oh-my-Lord-so-complex system known as Slopetalk, some people have noticed that comments may be entered but occasionally seem to be missing. (They aren’t really, but perception is reality, so there ya go).

We have deployed what we believe is a fix to the problem. Please pay close attention (some of you will without me even asking) and let me know if it seems to have helped or not. Obviously I am hoping the answer is “yes” but please let me know by way of an email or the “@” feature. Thank you.