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.

We’ve Cleaned Up Our Act!

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I’m a neat freak. Felix Unger. OCD. Anal-retentive. A order nut. Call it what you will.

I like things to be clean, organized, and in their place. This is woven into Slope’s DNA, with one glaring exception: our intraday charts have always been littered with the kinds of data errors that have been part and parcel of the financial data industry since time began. It’s just plain gross, and always has been, and it renders the charts useless.


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Do Your Worst!

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OK, folks, let’s try this again.

By way of background, the Slope of Hope has had a long-time issue in which, on occasions, comments would get eaten. For some folks, this never happened. For others (I’m looking at you, IndyZ) it was a constant.

We have probably poured more time and money into fighting this bug than any feature on the entire site. So, with a nervous twitch, I will ask you all to jump up and down on comments, either via classic comments or in SlopeTalk. Please let me know if it’s better or not. Here’s hoping it’s the former!

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