2-Dimensional Percent Return Chart

The following example is for Kulicke & Soffa (KLIC), a cyclical semiconductor equipment stock. The price chart shows the weekly closing prices for KLIC from September 9, 1996 to October 5, 1998, which is one complete price cycle.

The cycle included 109 weekly closes for 5,886 (109*108/2) buy and sell combinations of which 2,501 (42.49%) were winners and 3,385 (57.51%) were losers.

CTM Summary
	All Trades	Buy Upside Sell Upside	Buy Upside Sell Downside	Buy Downside Sell Downside
Number Prices	109	52	109	57
# Trades	5,886	1,326	2,964	1,596
# Winners	2,501	1,213	1,068	220
# Losers	3,385	113	1,896	1,376
% Winners	42.49%	91.48%	36.03%	13.78%
% Losers	57.51%	8.52%	63.97%	86.22%
Average Return	10.73%	73.96%	2.06%	-25.70%
Lowest Return	-78.84%	-25.11%	-78.84%	-78.59%
Highest Return	515.09%	515.09%	508.11%	67.03%

2-Dimensional CTM Percent Returns Chart

The color-coded display of the returns for the 5,886 trades delineates the three trade types by color. You can see that most (91.48%) of the buy upside and sell upside trades (green) are winners and fall above the red zero percent return line on the chart. These trades result in the largest percent gains. Most (86.22%) of the buy downside and sell downside trades (red) are losers and fall on or below the red line. The buy upside and sell downside trades (blue) are distributed over much of the chart area. But most (63.97%) of these trades are losers.

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Updated February 20, 2009.