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.

The McClellan Twins!

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Great news, SlopeCharts users! We now have both the McClellan Oscillator and the McClellan Summation Index!

The McClellan Oscillator is a breadth indicator in SlopeCharts which is based on the components of the S&P 500. This is an important distinction from other studies, since it will appear consistently from chart to chart, irrespective of what is being charted. The reason is that the calculation is based on the components of the S&P 500 and the quantity among those stocks that are advancing or declining.

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Future Trend Focus

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Although the future trend feature in SlopeCharts is exclusively for the Diamond membership, I thought everyone would be interested in a few examples of how this feature can be effective (or not) depending on the symbol.

For this little experiment, I chose the bottom item from the dropdown, Show Prior Future Trend and Future Trend. As stated on the information page, ” An even more interesting aspect is to “dial back” time and see what would have been predicted in the past and compare it to what actually happened. Choosing Show Prior Future Trend allows you to use the second dropdown to choose how far back in time you want to test.“

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Popular

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I trust many of you have been enjoying the new Comments Search engine. I think it’s a total kick to wander through it, considering the literally millions of comments in the database. Plus, it’s insanely fast. On top of that, we’ve added another feature!

Now, when you get a search result, you can sort the entire data-set by either Date (the default) or by Rating. The Rating sort is particularly useful, since you can quickly ascertain which comments received the most accolades from other Slopers, suggesting which comments are the most useful.

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