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Because I am the World’s Least-Exciting Person, I spent the entire weekend updating and polishing up the tutorial videos for SlopeCharts. If you have even the faintest interest in this fantastic charting platform, I urge you to check out this page. Just point to any of the (all identical) images to see the subject matter covered. The videos are short, educational, and feature the mellifluous sound of my voice.
I’m totally nerding out this weekend on Slope, polishing up the site, adding videos – – the whole Labor Day schtick. In a way, I am re-discovering some of the cool stuff about my little creation. For example, I was just doing a video on the Future Trend feature, and I was quite surprised to see the fascinating sine wave projected for oil. If this is anything close to what’s going to happen, it could mean all kinds of interesting setups! I’m quite short energy stocks now, so I’m particularly pleased.
I’ve been working on new videos – – here’s one of them. If you use SlopeCharts, I guarantee you’ll learn something new. Give it a look;
OK, I’m so sooooooooo sorry to mention it again, but I am absolutely crazy about the new Arc drawing tool in SlopeCharts. I’ve been spending the entire morning sexing up my charts with these things. You’ve got to try them out!
I am pleased to let you know of another improvement to SlopeCharts: arcs.
Rounded tops and rounded bottoms are very important basic instances in the world of charting. Intel, for example, shown below, has a very well-formed saucer pattern, but until now, it wasn’t really possible to highlight in SlopeCharts. You could use the rectangle highlight tool, perhaps, but that’s not really the right shape, or you could, as I did, just drawn some carefully-placed trendlines:
