We’ve made more improvements to the customized earnings date page, since I really wasn’t too happy with the interface. Now when you go to it, you’re presented with a dropdown of all your watchlists. Choose any of them, and you’ll get complete information on the earnings dates for the stocks you are following in that particular list.
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.
Happy Days
I wanted you to know that, only two days after its introduction, we’ve spiffed up our earnings calendar – – prompted by user feedback! See, one thing you need to know about Slope that sets it apart is that if you WRITE me and ask for something, it usually happens, sometimes within hours. I love improving the site. That goes for problems, too. If you see something amiss, WRITE ME. Because in my experience 99 people out of 100 just grimace and move on, and you mustn’t do that. I’m here to make things better.
Earnings Calendar Now Live
Another day, another feature. But before I mention it, I’ve added a new menu to Slope called Tools, because it was getting kind of crowded up there.
Friendly Reminder to Torture Yourself
I want to remind everyone of Slope’s extremely unique page called Woulda Shoulda Coulda which lets you enter in any hypothetical trade and find out:
- What it would be worth today;
- What percentage change would have take place;
- What maximum drawdown you would have had to endure at any point;
- What the maximum loss would have been from your original investment.
As an example, let’s say the day after I sold Prophet, I put $50,000 into NFLX, which was a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the cash that went into my account.
So this reveals a $50,000 investment in Netflix would be worth nearly $12 million today. This assumes, of course, I would have had the testicular fortitude to ignore a 22% drop in value and, far worse, a nearly 83% drawdown during this holding period.
I would normally be jumping off a bridge at this point, but I know there’s no way in hell I would have held on, so I’m going to let myself off the hook.
Dedication
I’ve been working almost my entire life. I have done so because I have almost always been able to labor at something I love.
This web site has been my life for over thirteen years. Far longer than that, however, have been the books I have written. I wrote my first nationally-published book at the age of 16, and I am going to be releasing my 25th book in a few weeks. I consider it my finest work, and a large number of Slopers have kindly volunteered their time to proofread it (note to that group: hang in there, it’s coming).
Each of these books has been dedicated to someone important to me. I have been considering the appropriate person to whom to dedicate what I consider my latest, greatest book. Who has loomed large in my life? Who has always been there for me? And then, on Friday the 13th of all days, it hit me.
And it’s this guy:
