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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.
Odds & Ends
Over the course of time, many of the improvements on Slope are so small,. I don’t mention them. If I find that a noun is missing an “s” at the end, and we fix it, I’m not going to waste your time with the big news. (As a side note, the generosity of some Slopers is jaw-dropping. Mississippi Man recently spent hours reviewing the options strategy guide and send me ample corrections, and Violet has been tidying up my work for years!)
Anyway, we did release a hodgepodge of improvements lately that I think are worth noting. In no particular order:
We have improved the measurement tool so that it is intelligent about where it places its information box.
Top of the Pops
I spent some time spiffing up our “Best Pages” which you can find here. Please give it a look, and email me if I left anything important out!
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Trade Data Project
The first release of Virtual Trading is humming along smoothly, and as people are using the system, the data set is beginning to grow. This is where things get fun.
As more and more trade data is created, we get a witch’s brew of profits, losses, trading strategies, and other information that’s going to be a lot of fun to slice ‘n’ dice. It also gives one the opportunity in SlopeCharts to see their actual trades in the context of a chart (the example below shows how I made a profit on my NKE puts – – aren’t I smart??? – – only to close it out before the options went into oh-my-God-profitable mode.)
Tying the Not
One of my favorite newer features in SlopeCharts is the Labels function. We are continuing to enhance this, but one small improvement I wanted to bring to your attention is an addition to the dropdown: in addition to “All” or “Any” we now have “None“. For all you Boolean logic fans out there, this is simply a “NOT” applied against the labels, in those instances where you want to see the symbols that include none of the labels you have selected.
