At the risk of contradicting myself about not wanting to add more bells and whistles, I want to give you virtual traders a peek at something new.

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At the risk of contradicting myself about not wanting to add more bells and whistles, I want to give you virtual traders a peek at something new.

During my afternoon swim, which is typically my most thought-filled time of day, something occurred to me: I had never tried SlopeRules with cryptocurrencies. In fact, I didn’t even know if they would work (they do, it turns out), so I poked around with it some and find the results intriguing.

I have sung the praises of Slope’s virtual trading before, and it isn’t because of stuff that feels good. Over the span of just a few days, I’ve lost about 60% of my account’s value, all because of just a tiny number of gargantuan, very aggressive trades. The good news is that the $300 million in losses are all pretend! But it just goes to show that when a person is just setting the world on fire, their ego can get the best of them, and they can shoot their own virtual foot off just like in real life.

I was the cause of some annoyance with the family in the wee hours of the morning. Ding ding ding. Dong dong dong. My Telegram kept alerting me, which is unusual. The source of the bother, however, was welcome news:

I finished re-doing my “introduction to Slope” videos, which I think are a huge improvement over what was there before. Here was the final one, and here is the introductory page with all of them.