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.

Fifty First Dates

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More instant gratification from SlopeCharts, my friends!

On Monday, a prospective Sloper wrote me and said that if we’d just add options expiration dates to SlopeCharts, he would sign up.

By Tuesday, we had spec’d, developed, tested, and deployed this new feature. Bid-a-bang, bid-a-boom. Let me explain how to use it.

First, you go to the Preferences (gear icon, in the lower-left of SlopeCharts) and, once the dialog box is up, you select the Appearance tab. You will notice a whole new set of controls, which I have tinted below.

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The Biggest Winners

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This is a survey of the biggest winners, on a percentage basis, over a number of time-spans. Below I have created galleries in SlopeCharts of the best gainers for 2019, the past five years, the past ten years, and the past twenty years. I want to emphasize two things: (1) even though I just told you, I’ll say again these are percentage charts, not normal charts; (2) if you want to see the big version of any chart, click on the thumbnail. Unfortunately, the left/right arrows don’t let you navigate the entire set, so you need to click on any specific chart to see it.

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