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I’m a libertarian at heart, and as such, I believe that, with few exceptions, pretty much the worst entity to handle any task is a government body. Therefore, over a decade ago, when Californians were sold a pipe dream about a high-speed rail (HSR) that would whisk them from San Francisco to Disneyland in just 2.5 hours, I rolled my eyes.
I didn’t keep my eye-rolling private. Five years ago, in this post, I mentioned the HSR project:
I’m going to start this important post off with three specific things you can do to support Slope and all the hard work and engineering dollars that go into it:
Now, on with what I’ve got to say. (more…)
You may recall in SlopeRules‘ brief lifetime that I’ve made the comparison between it and the first word processor. The first release we created, Version 0.1, was sort of like a word processor that couldn’t save or print. We improved it enough afterward to get it to the “it can save files” point.
I am delighted today to announce that we’re at the “it can print, too!” stage. That is, this thing is actually getting much more powerful. Now it can share.
The notion of “sharing” in SlopeRules is like a two-sided coin. You can share any SlopeRules set you’ve created with the entire community of Slopers. You can also, on the flip side, copy any SlopeRules which others have made public. The community as a whole contributes to the rule sets available and, over time, can help each other build out superior algorithms.
Let’s take a step-by-step example as to how a SlopeRules set would be constructed and improved.
When basing rules on indicators, it’s important to know which levels and crossover points are important to different indicators. Below, for instance, are some examples of the CCI, RSI, and %R indicators. As you can see, the y-axis values (highlighted on the right) vary quite a bit from study to study.
