Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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New and Improved Portfolio

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Weekends do not get in the way of Slope making progress. We work harder on the weekends than the weekdays! As such, I am delighted to report a substantial improvement and a very new approach in the CryptoStream portfolio.

Let me explain the genesis of this new approach. I found two things persistently frustrating about the former way we handled portfolios:

  1. Coin Entry – the way it worked before, you’d see the list of popular symbols, and you would try to hunt down the one in which you actually had a position. If it wasn’t there, you would click More Symbols and look again. You would keep doing that until, at long last, your symbol finally appeared. Dumb! Dumb, dumb dumb!
  2. One and Only One Stop – Recently, I have decided to create multiple tiers of risk for a position. For example, if I have a big coin position, but I want to get out of 35% (for example) if one price level is violated, and 65% at a lower price levels, there was simply no way to represent that.

The new approach solves both of these problems. You simply hand-enter whatever coin you want, instead of seeking it out randomly, and with this new approach, you can enter as many different tranches of the same coin as you like.

I have completely reworked the documentation to take these improvements into account, which you can see here.

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Tiles, Everyone, Tiles!

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Most of you are acquainted with the very cool Slope Tiles feature (if you are not, here is a handy guide). I have an important improvement to announce, which is located in the Edit Tiles dialog box, located at the very bottom of the Slope Tiles page:

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Simply stated, if you prefer the Slope Tiles approach to your home page (as I do), now you can make it the permanent default any time you are logged in to Slope, no matter what computer. And this is yet another one of those feature improvements for which I can directly say “thank you” to the Slope community for suggesting it!

SlopeCharts…….But

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I’ll once again state a theme I’ve embraced, which is Quality instead of Gizmos (Don’t worry, gizmo fans, there will come a day when I go back to that). Thus, any product announcements I make will be more along the lines of “this no longer sucks” as opposed to “Wow, look what I just did!” This is one such post.

One thing that has bothered me forever in SlopeCharts is how, when drawing an object, I couldn’t anchor it into the future. This is easier shown than described, so here’s what I am talking about. Take a few moments to watch:

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