Symbol	Range Forecast High      Low		Current Price	Sell Target Potential	Drawdown Exposure	Range Index	From Prior Range Indexes Win Odds/100 %Payoff		Days Held	Annual Rate of Return	Sample Size
SPY	$160.78	$152.72	$155.44	3.2%	-1.8%	33	73	3.5%	50	19%	161 of 1383

Key to understanding the content of the BTF pictures is the balance between upside prospect and downside exposure in each forecast. Investors typically set action decisions based on the balance between these dimensions. Example: "I won't buy a stock unless it offers at least four times as much upside as drawdown exposure." Or, When a stock I own has five times as much downside exposure as its remaining upside, it's time to stop reaching for more, and get out."

To make these balances easier to deal with -- once familiarized with the measure -- a simple yardstick is available, the Range Index. It tells what proportion of that top-to-bottom vertical line in the BTF picture above lies below the current price dot. The smaller the Range Index, the cheaper the subject is, in terms of its upside to downside. Example: A Range index of 20 is a forecast that has four times as much upside (100-20=80, 80/20=4) as its downside.

An investor can look at an investment candidate stock that has a Range Index of 20 to see how often in the past a standard investment policy would have been profitable, and by how much, if it had been bought every time it had a Range Index of 20. The policy for investment in our strategy is based on a Time-Efficient Risk Managagement Discipline, TERMD. Each position taken will use the current forecast Range High value as the sell target as the desired outcome. As a contingency to preserve the value of time, the position is unilaterally closed out if the price hasn't made it to the sell target. This frees up the capital for taking a new position and makes much better use of time than passive Buy and Hold strategy. It also helps by taking emotional reactions out of the equation. For those who think that it's not possible to time the market, we invite you to follow some of the free examples for a few months and decide for yourself.

The illustrated data table tells that for SPY at the time, out of the last 1383 days there were 161 with Range Indexes at least as attractive as 33 (twice as much upside as down). Following a policy of wanting a sell-target price of at least as high at each day's forecast, and not being willing to hold any investment longer than 3 months, there were 73% of the 161 buy opportunities that would have been closed out at gains. Including the losses, the average gain would have been 3.5% and taken ten weeks (of 5 trading days). That produced an annual rate of return of +19%, with an average maximum drawdown exposure in all 161 cases of -1.8%

Many far better opportunities than are present in this illustration are available every day.

A horizontal bar may appear above the picture's bottom line, between small zero and 100 numbers. When present it measures the subject's past reward~risk tradeoff ranking, as "better than" that percent of other alternatives in our 2700-plus issue population.

Another metric provided with the BTF is a thumbnail sketch of the Range Index history for the prior 5 years, if the stock, fund, or index has existed for that long. Below are two examples, the first having a full history of 1261 samples and one with a shorter history. The number at the top corresponds to the current Range Index for that day, or the most recent data available.