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A quick recap of some of the core improvements to Slope recently:
A jump in the pool can be refreshing and thought-provoking. As I’ve mentioned in the past, it’s the closest thing I do to meditation, and aside from my standing all day at a desk, swimming is the best exercise I get.
On Wednesday evening I jumped into the pool for the first time since Thailand, and it occurred to me I’ve got some thanks that are due:
(more…)This post is explicitly aimed at those at the Sloper level of service (in other words, free users). I’d like to strongly encourage you to consider signing up for a Bronze membership, which is our cheapest one. Besides all the cool stuff you get with your memberships, here are my reasons to do this immediately instead of in the future:
Now that we’ve upgraded our servers, some folks are having trouble logging in, since their browsers are confused (basically straddling the old servers and the new servers). The solution to this is easy: delete your browser cookies. If you don’t know how, just go to Google and type “how to delete cookies in ” followed by whatever browser you use. Here’s what it looks like in Chrome, for example
(more…)You may not know this, but having surveyed the readers of Slope, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the most popular brokerage among them is none other than tastytrade – – which has a special place in my heart for obvious reasons.
The last time I saw Tom Sosnoff in person, he was telling me about this new promotion they were going to run, which essentially would let a person play with $5,000 of virtual money in a trading account and, if they manage to make $250 profit in two days, they’d actually get that money for real. In other words, you could lose the entire $5,000, and you actually wouldn’t lose anything, but if you managed to make $250 or more in two days, you’d actually get that cash (zero risk, all reward).
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