We have looked at anything virtual in a while. Here are my current positions in the virtual trading system (I took this screenshot earlier today; the profits are greatly diminished before the close!)
Virtual Positions
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.
NEW: Volatility Calendar
We are delighted to let you know about yet another Slope creation – – a new page dedicated to showing you, in an easy-to-read, attractive format, an earnings calendar focused on volatility data. The page is very similar to the existing Graphical Earnings Calendar, but it has two vital pieces of information beneath each symbol:
- the Average Move that the stock makes between the day prior to earnings and the day after;
- The Implied Move based on the implied volatility data of the options values.
Comments Tile is Here!
OK, this you are going to LOVE. We just introduced Tiles yesterday, and we’ve already made two huge improvements.
The first one is that the watch list tile is much more manageable, especially if you have long watch lists like I do. You’ll see what I mean when you try it.
The bigger news is that, as you’ve probably guessed, we have a comments tile now!
Miles of Tiles
What did you do with your evening? I can tell you how I spent mine – – putting together this awesome new documentation page for our oh-so-marvelous Tiles product. I love this stuff! Please fire up the latest version of Tiles (after you’ve read the documentation) and play around with it. Polite suggestions and respectful comments are welcome, but we are very, very close to wrapping this up. This was a MAJOR engineering project, folks, requiring us to take the essence of Slope and put it into a totally configurable home page. I am absolutely thrilled with our creation.
KA-BOOM!
Back when I had taken my virtual trading account from $100,000 to about $4 million, I was getting some serious flack (and some semi-serious hints that I was cheating or gaming my own system). Well, folks, easy come, easy go. I’ve kept the same aggressive stance, and I’ve gotten my bear bottom blasted, now being down about 55% from that peak. At least people will maybe give me credit for not cheating!
