Now that some time has passed, I have redrawn my TLT trendlines. This time, I am using the channel tool, which by definition demands the prices be confined within perfectly parallel lines.
Better Bonds
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Being Clever with Labels
One of my favorite features in SlopeCharts is the labeling feature, and I had a challenge yesterday that I quickly solved and wanted to share with you.
The challenge was this: I wanted to buy some alt-coins at the Kraken exchange, but I knew Kraken had added some new coins since the last time I checked, and I wanted to make sure I had a complete, up-to-date label reference in SlopeCharts to identify which coins were available. Now, the monkey-brain was to do this would be to go through all my crypto charts, one by one, and label those that were on the Kraken list, but I’d rather work smart than work hard, so here’s what I did.
Step 1: Get the Raw List
I just googled the term “Kraken coin list” and got to the page where it showed the up-to-date listing of coins covered.
My Eyes!
I’d like to tell you about an important failure.
In recent weeks, I have been endeavoring to create automatic pattern recognition. This has been attempted by many years by many organizations, most of them vastly better funded than mine, and they’ve all failed. I’ve spent a rather large amount of time on this.
In order to keep my risk low, I decided to start off by using the API of what is purportedly the very best pattern recognition system out there. We integrated it with SlopeCharts, and I started to thumb through the results. Here we have what their system considers to be a Triple Top:
Thirty Indicators
We’ve added a couple of more indicators recently (Stochastics and StochRSI), which brings us to a nice, round thirty. I wanted to take a moment to say a few things about indicators, which are all documented in the SlopeCharts reference guide.
Stream a Little Stream
As proud as I am of what we’ve created here on Slope, there was one aspect of the site which always caused me to look the other way and mumble incoherently: the streaming charts. The fastest they could go is updating every 5 seconds, and even that was kind of dicey. Well, we’ve reworked this from the ground up, and now we have true streaming charts for both equities as cryptocurrencies. In the Preferences dialog, you should see a new selection under the General tab for Streaming refresh, and I’d love you to give it a whirl. (We are updating the entitlements today so the old dropdown goes away and all paying members get streaming, but even now, I think any subscriber can access it).
