Hey, Cowboy. I am glad you took an interest in my charting style. I took all of my data from the monthly closes off of the Yahoo site. I also did the same thing with weekly charting, monthly, quarterly, bi-monthly-and daily if I wanted to. I know this example isn't going to show up correctly on the message board, but I will try anyway. I placed the entire $25,000 on one stock and set stop-losses at -10%. I sold automatically at the close of the end of the specified quarter. I agree, Cowboy, that I need to be more informative. I do hope that you could place one of my charts on you site and that way the people visiting could see at least a real chart. Here is my attempt at the example-though it by no means is a chart, or a graph. It is just a representation of what a chart can show you.
LSI 1993-1 14% $28,562.36
JBL 1993-2 26% $35,923.79
KMI 1993-3 11% $39,707.48
MEDI 1993-4 -10% $35,736.73
LSI 1994-1 25% $44,512.95
JBL 1994-2 -10% $40,061.66
KMI 1994-3 18% $47,097.43
MEDI 1994-4 -10% $42,387.69
LSI 1995-1 30% $54,996.09
JBL 1995-2 29% $70,726.57
KMI 1995-3 8% $76,555.51
MEDI 1995-4 72% $131,706.40
LSI 1996-1 -10% $118,535.76
JBL 1996-2 39% $164,444.90
KMI 1996-3 6% $174,571.55
MEDI 1996-4 18% $206,466.29
LSI 1997-1 30% $268,201.78
JBL 1997-2 72% $460,291.03
KMI 1997-3 9% $503,769.84
MEDI 1997-4 17% $587,742.96
LSI 1998-1 28% $749,834.62
JBL 1998-2 0% $746,135.03
KMI 1998-3 2% $763,191.55
MEDI 1998-4 52% $1,159,800.23
LSI 1999-1 86% $2,162,230.11
JBL 1999-2 12% $2,423,936.69
KMI 1999-3 61% $3,910,181.35
MEDI 1999-4 58% $6,166,480.76
LSI 2000-1 91% $11,806,826.93
JBL 2000-2 20% $14,153,126.46
KMI 2000-3 18% $16,693,248.93
MEDI 2000-4 -10% $15,023,924.03
LSI 2001-1 8% $16,158,779.99
JBL 2001-2 41% $22,707,660.98
KMI 2001-3 -1% $22,480,167.42
MEDI 2001-4 28% $28,689,026.28
LSI 2002-1 9% $31,239,130.85
JBL 2002-2 -9% $28,482,813.54
KMI 2002-3 -5% $27,001,388.61
MEDI 2002-4 28% $34,663,074.86
It looks good in the message board, but when I post it, it may explode. The actual charts teach you that you should buy the stock only during its historical high months, and sell when it historically goes south. Let us see what happens with this example. And remember, these weren't the best stocks to do this 10 year portfolio with. It was spur of the moment.
Ken