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.

Serious Discussion

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Not long ago, I introduced the Discussion Forum to Slope, but I did so with all kinds of caveats about how it was temporary and just an experiment. Well, after some tinkering, I’ve decided it’s perfectly good and ready to stay right where it is. Of course, it’s pretty thin on content, so I’ll be periodically poking and prodding folks to add their own articles, charts, and remarks in there so that it builds out over time. But, hey, we started at zero comments, too, and now we’ve got over three million of them!

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New SlopeCharts Tweaks

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I am pleased to announce some important improvements to SlopeCharts, every one of which was based on the suggestion of fellow Slopers.

First of all, we’ve enhanced the ability to see earnings dates on your watch lists. In the past, you could get a number (in red) right next to a symbol to show how many calendar days were left until their earnings announcement. Now, using Preferences, you can also see a number to show how many days in the past earnings were announced.

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Tesla Alert!

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Editor’s note: I composed this post before Tesla began its free-fall, so it’s actually quite timely……..

I’d like to drive home the value of our new chart-based alert system with a real life example. How about we pick on a company which, over its history, has lost about $10 billion yet has managed to score a market cap approaching $900 billion: Tesla. Here is the precarious chart:

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NEW! Trendline Alerts

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It was only yesterday that we introduced Chart-Based Alerts to the SlopeCharts feature set. We are pleased to follow this up with something vastly more complex on our end, which is trendline-based alerts.

Let’s take a real-life example of an ETF I follow, which is the Brazil ETF, symbol EWZ. There is nothing particularly tradeable about this chart, but I believe a break above the horizontal line would be bullish and a break below the ascending trendline would be bearish.

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