Chart Gallery

This gallery includes examples of price and CTM charts. The purpose of the gallery is to show the variety of charts on buyupside.com. Many of the charts are not current but still serve as useful examples.

Silver - CTM Percent Returns

The following CTM percent returns chart shows the spike in silver prices in the the early 1980s.

For more information about silver prices, charts and stocks read About Gold and Silver and Portfolio of Gold and Silver Stocks.

Multiple Cycles

Kulicke & Soffa (KLIC) has had four complete price cycles since 1990. The price chart and corresponding CTM percent returns chart show the cycles.

For more information about cyclical stocks read Cyclical Price Pattern and Kulicke & Soffa Fourth Cycle: 1998 - 2002.

CTM 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional Percent Return Charts

The two charts visually represent the CTM trade table for one cycle of 109 weekly prices for Kulicke & Soffa (KLIC).

The color-coded 2-dimensional CTM percent returns chart for the 5,886 CTM trades delineates the three trade types by color. Most of the buy upside/sell upside trades (green) are winners and most of the buy downside/sell downside trades (red) are losers. The buy upside/sell downside trades (blue) are distributed over much of the chart area.

The 3-dimensional display for the same trades shows the winning trades in green and losing trades in red.

CTM Percent Returns Chart and Winners and Losers Map

The CTM percent returns chart for CSCO Systems (CSCO) shows many buy upside/sell upside and buy upside/sell downside winners (green). The large area of losers (red) are buy downside/sell downside trades after the March 2000 peak. The winners and losers map shows the same data but looking straight down.

CTM Percent Returns Charts for Three Trade Types

The following charts show the CTM percent returns for the three CTM trade types: buy upside/sell upside, buy upside/sell downside and buy downside/sell downside.

Gold Price and CTM Percent Returns Charts

Gold has been in a long-term down trend since it peaked in 1980. The downside losing trades (red) are interspersed with the downside winning trades (green), which resulted from buying on downside dips in price. The price chart and corresponding CTM percent returns chart show the down trend.

For more information about gold prices, charts and stocks read About Gold and Silver and Portfolio of Gold and Silver Stocks.

Bow Tie Charts for the Nikkei 225

The bow tie chart plots CTM annualized returns over CTM percent returns. The two charts plot the same data but show different colors.

S&P 500

These charts show the annualized returns for all CTM trades for S&P 500 from 1982 to 2003. The first chart shows returns are most variable for short holding periods. And returns converge as holding time increases. The second chart shows waves of return values.

For more information about annualized returns read: Measures of Return and Annualized Return and Time Held.