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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.
Brokerage Begins
I am exceptionally pleased to announce the first step of what promises to be a very long journey for the Slope of Hope, which is the integration of our products with major brokerages. This is unprecedented in our nearly fifteen year history, and I want to be emphatic that this is an alpha version of just one baby step.
When you go to SlopeCharts, you will notice an icon in the lower left which resembles a U.S. dollar sign. This is how you can get to the Brokerage Control Center.
We Were So Young Then!
Announcing OptionDots
Perhaps it seems like I’m making this up as I go along, adding feature after feature all willy-nilly. Believe it or not, I actually have a plan in mind, and we’re getting there one baby step at a time. Here’s another step, and I assure you, this is the start of something much larger.
SlopeCharts now has a one-of-a-kind way to represent the options contracts that exist for a given financial instrument, and we call them OptionDots. To use them, just click on the Delta symbol (that is, the triangle) on the row of SlopeLinks:
Life After Google
About a week ago, long-time Sloper Dutch suggested I check out a book by well-known economist and technology author George Gilder named Life After Google. Based on the strength of this recommendation, I purchased it right away, and I spent the entire weekend reading it. I wanted to share my thoughts about it with you. Before I do, I’m going to be lazy and provide the summary of the book from the Amazon site:
The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it’s coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder—the peerless visionary of technology and culture—explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns.
Google’s astonishing ability to “search and sort” attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies—videos, maps, email, calendars….And everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly, users submit to advertising. The system of “aggregate and advertise” works—for a while—if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads.
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