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.
The community here at Slope is its heart and soul, and there’s a page dedicated to the leaders of that community. We have made some improvements to this page, including cleaning up the avatars and, importantly, eliminating me from the lists (since it’s kind of silly for me to be included). All hail the Hall of Famers here on Slope!
In spite of all evidence to the contrary, I’m quite fond of my readers (even the non-paying ones!) and want their Slope experience to be a good one. As many of you know, the bane of my existence has been what I’ve dubbed the Disappearing Comments Bug, which tends to take place when some poor soul is typing a very long comment and then, BLAMMO, it vanishes. We have spent countless hours, and my dollars, in pursuit of a fix, and we’ve just rolled out our latest attempt.
For the love of my personal savior Jesus H. Christ, do two things: (1) Go to either SlopeTalk or classic comments (your choice!) and hit Ctrl-F5 to make sure you’ve got the latest version (2) If, God forbid, you see this bug happen, email me. Don’t leave a comment with the hope I’ll see it (I won’t). Email me. And in defiance of the old “no news is good news” saw, if you do NOT see this problem happening, I’d like to know that too. And, with that, I shall thank you.
I am delighted to tell you about yet another wonderful feature on Slope, and specifically within SlopeCharts: the ability to instantly analyze the sector composition of any given watch list. To use this feature, point to any watch list title in SlopeCharts, right click the mouse, and choose Sector Analysis from the pop-up menu.
There has never been a tech issue in my life more vexing than the “disappearing comments” but that we’ve grappled with ever since SlopeTalk was introduced. Creating a “dual platform”, as we did (that is to say, SlopeTalk and Slope Classic Comments providing access to the same information) was a huge gift on our part, and very difficult, and was done to accommodate those who simply didn’t want to change. But the cost of doing so was, first, a lot of expense on my part, and second, this glaring imperfection of comments that vanish before you finish typing them.
The easiest thing for me to do (which would make me sad, since I’ve spent a TON of making this work, plus there would be some griping) would be to just pull the band-aid off and kill Classic Comments altogether, keeping all discussion within SlopeTalk. I thus am asking you to answer this one question:
We’ve made a small improvement to trendlines, but I suspect some of you will really want to know about this. Already, when you point at a trendline on your chart, it will show you the start date, the starting value, and the angle in degrees. We’ve added a fourth data point, which is the annualized percentage return of the trendline.
