Hello from a tiny wooden table at the Whole Foods Market in San Mateo. I have yet another improvement for you on Slope: Price Cones. Here is the new menu item in SlopeCharts:
Price Cream Cone
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Wipeout 94301
As a resident of the fair city of Palo Alto, California, I have watched with a combination of bemusement and dismay as real estate prices have, over the past three years, reversed course. Mostly, however, I feel a sense of relief that we still have proof that trees do not, as the saying goes, grow to the sky. Although in the case of stocks, such as AAPL below, this has yet to be demonstrated.
Improved Verily
You will be pleased to know that our IV Rank feature, introduced fewer than 100 hours ago, has already been substantially improved.
Volatility, which SlopeCharts already has here, measures the implied volatility of a given financial instrument based upon its options pricing. The volatility varies from instrument to instrument, but for any one instrument, it’s the relative volatility that is of interest to us.
(more…)Fibonacci Fiddlings
I’m not sure what you did on Friday night, but it was probably different than how I spent mine: looking at charts and, in particular, Fibonacci extensions. In other words, this dialog box in SlopeCharts:
IV Rank Is Now LIVE!
I receive ideas and requests every day from Slopers, but I’ve never received such a consistent request as the one for IV Rank. There has been a tremendous clamoring for it lately, so I am delighted to let you know that we’ve done it, and in typical Slope style, we’ve done it better than anyone else.
For those unacquainted with IV Rank, the concept is simple. Volatility, which SlopeCharts already has here, measures the implied volatility of a given financial instrument based upon its options pricing. The volatility varies from instrument to instrument, but for any one instrument, it’s the relative volatility that is of interest to us.
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