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It’s been a little more than a week since we rolled our servers live, and although there were a few bumps and bruises along the way, I think we’re in much better shape now. I hope the speed of the system has been apparent. Here is the latest third-party performance report:
I am also pleased to mention that today, March 29th, is Slope’s 16th birthday. I have a special video waiting in the wings that I’ll publish later that will commemorate this occasion. Thank you, one and all, for being here!
Here we are on a Sunday, having introduced two new features! The first was our new Starred Comments feature, and now we are pleased to tell you of the newest indicator in SlopeCharts: the Zig Zag.
The Zig Zag indicator provides a quick and easy way of filtering out the “noise” of price data in order to create a simpler, easier-to-see perspective of long-term price action. You are in direct control as to how much “smoothing’ takes place. As with most SlopeCharts indicators, merely by sliding the indicator bar you can alter the indicator parameter to create as smooth or rough a representation of the prices as you like.
I’m pleased to announce a new feature that some of you specifically suggested (and which had never occurred to me before): the ability to “favorite” comments on Slope.
Using it couldn’t be easier. If you want to mark a comment as a favorite, just click the Star icon:
I would like to pose a question to the group. Please leave your thoughts in the comments section.
As some of you know, there is a trading method created by Ruffpup known as MATLBO. It has been discussed here frequently on Slope, and has been the topic of much conversation. Indeed, Ruffpup gathered up the trades, charts, and conversation around this method and shared this compilation with me, and it goes on for hundreds of pages.
I am considering endeavoring to automate this system, and Ruffpup has been generous with his time and information toward that end. I actually have ideas about a more generalized system of being able to uncover such trading opportunities.
So my question to the group is: if Slope were to introduce a system that was able to alert you to MATLBO (and kindred) opportunities, would that be something that you would not only be interested in, but would also pay to have? I ask now, because it would be no small feat to create such a system, and I’d rather know that people are willing to pay a premium price if I were to create something genuinely effective that would give users a truly substantial trading edge. I look forward to your remarks.
I was very pleased to get this alert emailed to me this morning:
One of the last things we fixed from our big server upgrade was alerts, and those are sailing smoothly again. I encourage you to check out SlopeAlerts, including their sub-component, Chart-Based Alerts.
