USING BLOCKDESK TO IMPROVE YOUR INVESTMENT RETURNS: OUR PRODUCTS

BTF CHARTS & R:R CHARTS

helps you both with stock selection and specific stock timing.

Good stock selection requires eliminating thousands of possible choices by screening for earnings growth, financial soundness, and other qualities you value.  These preliminaries to your final value comparisons can be done with many other sources and tools.

When you have narrowed your search down to the final dozen or so stock candidates based on public information, it's time to find out how their prices are viewed by the investment professionals at the heart of the market-making process, the block traders. And it is essential to do it in terms that are directly comparable across companies of differing sizes and in different businesses.

To view a sample BTF chart, click on the chart above.

BLOCK TRADER FORECAST (BTF) CHARTS show, for one company at a time, the block traders' current expectations of a future price range for that stock.  These expectations are plotted with a two-year history of similar forecasts, made weekly.  Market prices are updated daily shortly after the close of trading, expectations weekly.

• Where it is low in, or below the range, the plot appears in green.
• Where the price is at the top of the range or above, the plot is red.
• Where the price is high, but still in the range, the plot is yellow.

Seeing how the stock has trended in the recent past, and how the block traders have responded to those changes, gives more guidance to your timing decisions.

After looking at stock timing and specific price targets using BTF Charts, you can use R:R Charts to find those stocks with the best reward-to-risk tradeoffs.

For additional details on BTF Charts, click here.

R:R Charts:  Make Relative Value Comparisons Between Stocks

To view a sample R:R chart, click on the chart above.

REWARD:RISK (R:R) CHARTS show, for up to 20 companies at a time:

• Each stock's price change potentials (up and down) based on the block traders' price range forecasts and its current price.

• Shown as potential percentage changes, they provide directly comparable x-y coordinates in a scatterplot.

The "go", "caution", and "stop" colors used in the single-company BTF charts follow through onto the R:R display.  Besides helping you decide between prospective investments, this style of chart can help you maintain and upgrade the prospects for stocks in an established portfolio.

For additional details on R:R Charts, click here.