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.

Your Slope Age

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About a week ago, I was looking at someone’s account history and it occurred to me just how long they had been on Slope. Some of you may not know this, but the Slope of Hope has been around since 2005, and so have a lot of the people here!

In order to honor their tenacity, I commissioned the creation of some special badges that declare for all to see how many years anyone has been on the site. It’s just another little way to tip my hat at those who have made Slope part of their lives for a very long time.

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Using Retracement Levels (by XerxesTraderGF)

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My approach to trading is verystraightforward. I mostly focus on Trendlines, Exponential Moving Averages, Candlestick patterns, and Fibonacci Retracement Levels. There are a lot of other technical trading tools out there, but I find that some are overly complex for my mind and/or designed more for the extreme analytical minded-traders, so I stay away from those and just use what works for me. I wanted to write specifically about Fibonacci levels as they can be a useful tool in identifying some interesting spots to watch in your trades.

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