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.

A Dozen for Twenty-Twenty

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The year 2020 has brought more new features and innovations to Slope than any other time in our fifteen year history. Here is a recap of some of our most interesting innovations; click on any of them to revisit what each of them is about:

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Text, Text, Text!

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Slopers have been asking me for this feature for literally years. At long last, we’ve done it, and I’d like to think we’ve done it better than folks might have expected. We now have a dedicated way for you to put text on charts.

SlopeCharts provides a number of ways to augment charts with text. In the past, the only way to do this was via the highlighting tools, which allowed for optional text notations. Now, however, there is a dedicated Text tool which you can access via this icon in the tools palette of SlopeCharts:

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Real-Time Movers

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We have had Gainers and Losers on the site for quite a well, and we recently added Volume Leaders.

These are available on a dedicated page and also a Data Panel in SlopeCharts itself (pictured just to the right of these words).

The rules applied to allow a symbol onto this list are as follows:

  • previous close > $1.00
  • latest price > $1.00
  • latest volume > 20k
  • issue type = common stock
  • market cap > 200m

Most importantly, now this data is real time (as opposed to the most recent trading day). This is actually a pretty important improvement since, let’s face it, big gainers at this very moment are more interesting than big gainers yesterday!

While we’re in the neighborhood, Let’s take a look at a couple…………

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The Biggies

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We have made a nice improvement to the Data Panel feature in SlopeCharts.

We have long had the “Big Movers” data panel with the biggest gainers and losers of the current day.

We have now added the Volume Leaders, which shows the top ten highest volume issues for a given day. Some are household names (like AAPL) whereas others, as this example shows, can be surprising newcomers (like CRIS).

As a reminder, click the left and right arrows flanking the name of any data panel to navigate to other panels. You can also control which panels are available by way of the Preferences, which you access by clicking the gear icon in the lower-left portion of SlopeCharts.