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Introducing Superlists

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When Slopecharts was first created many years ago, the foundation of the product was excellent watch list management. This has been taken a step further with the Superlist feature.

Take a situation in which you have multiple portfolios, and you keep your bearish and bullish positions tracked among a variety of appropriately named watch lists. All the symbols are in their various buckets. Until now, there was no way to have a view into the entire “bucket” in which all the symbols could be consolidated. Instead, the symbols were just spread around in small groups.

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Take a Shortcut!

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Since some of you missed my video last night about this cool feature, I thought I’d just share it here text-wise.

Using the mouse to do such things as tagging a security or moving symbols from watch list to watch list can be a very time-consuming process. By setting up a keyboard shortcut, you can perform a variety of operations with the press of a function key on your keyboard.

To get there, just choose Preferences icon, which is located in the lower-left portion of SlopeCharts and resembles a gear. Next, click on the tab called Shortcuts. This provides everything you need to create these time-saving shortcuts.

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