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Another day, another SlopeCharts improvement. We have deepened the historical data for indexes and added a couple of new ones. Those of you who are Plus subscribers can, of course, fetch my own list of 36 indexes (and the mark-ups) via the Publish feature to which you have access (just look for my watch list cleverly titled “Indexes“). Here’s one new index, the Dow Jones Composite, which goes back to January 1966.
All through the weekend, the news was filled with folks trying to interpret Trump’s mysterious remark about how “only one thing will work” when dealing with North Korea (and it isn’t diplomacy). It seems the only logical interpretation would be “attack them”…..
I got a well-meaning email from a well-known Sloper who was intrigued at my creation of 
SlopeCharts. Since web-based charting has been around for many years, and quite a few companies (with lots of money and lots of employees) have already done it……..why bother doing it again? Why re-invent the wheel?
My initial motivation, as I’ve explained in earlier posts, was to give myself a charting platform that I liked. I never intended to re-create charting. As the saying goes, “been there, done that”, and it’s a lot of work. However, I tried – – I really, really tried – – to find something out there that I liked, and I hated all the offerings. Some were better than others, but I didn’t really like any of them. So I set about on my task. (more…)
I am delighted to let you know about another improvement in SlopeCharts. It may seem trivial, but it has been by far the most requested improvement:
Yep, now you can choose how much historical back data to fetch (For PLUS users, this includes pre-fetching!). I didn’t include this feature at first, because I’m an All Data kind of guy. However, some people prefer short time periods, and obviously you’ll enjoy faster load times with less voluminous data.
There’s really not much else to say……jump to SlopeCharts and try it out by clicking the Preferences icon on the extreme right.
