CTM Visualizations

The Complete Trading Model (CTM) is a technical analysis tool used to quantify the buy and sell combinations for a price series. You can use CTM measures to confirm a change in prices from the upside to the downside or a change from the downside to the upside.

This page includes thumbnails of the family of CTM charts. Click on a chart to enlarge it.

For links to more CTM charts on buyupside.com click here. See more CTM charts at Novel CTM Charts.

CTM Trade Table and Trade Types

The CTM Trade Table includes the percent return for every buy/sell combination for a price series.

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CTM Trade Table	Percent Return by Trade Types

CTM Percent Returns 3-D Charts

3-dimensional charts show the percent returns for all buy/sell combinations of a price series. Green are winning trades and red are losing trades.

Percent Returns	Winners and Losers Map

Buy Upside and Sell Upside Percent Returns	Buy Upside and Sell Downside Percent Returns

Buy Downside and Sell Downside percent Returns	Relative Percent Returns

Buy Downside and Sell Next Upside Percent Returns	Buy Downside and Sell Next Upside Percent Returns

Measures of Return

The return of a buy/sell combination can be measured in four ways.

Dollar Return	Percent Return

Average Annual Return	Annualized Return

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CTM Annualized Returns 3-D Charts

3-dimensional charts show the annualized returns for all buy/sell combinations of a price series. Green are winning trades and red are losing trades.

Annualized Returns - View 1	Annualized Returns - View 2

Annualized Returns - Negative Returns

Detecting the Upside

CTM uses two measures to detect the change from the downside to the upside.

Cumulative Percent Winners	Cumulative Returns

Detecting the Downside

CTM uses two measures to detect the change from the upside to the downside.

Cumulative Percent Winners	Cumulative Returns

CTM Buy and Sell Curves

Charts of CTM percent returns over buy date and buy price.

CTM Buy Date Curve	CTM Buy Price Curve

Charts of CTM percent returns over sell date and sell price.

CTM Sell Date Curve	CTM Sell Price Curve

See Stock Visualization Articles on buyupside.com for more visualizations and charts.

Updated February 20, 2009.