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.

SlopeMatrix is BACK!

By -

I am very pleased to let you know that, after a very long absence, the SlopeMatrix page is back! This is a great way to keep an eye on live quotes on any of your watch lists and even has basic portfolio features to track P&L. Even more important, the statistics and fundamental data are fantastic (and sortable!) There are probably some rough edges I’ll need to hone down this week, but it’s up and running and available to all users. Please email me directly with any hiccups, and I’ll be updating the documentation for this cool new page after the close on Monday.

Introducing Superlists

By -

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.

(more…)