How to get started?

Maybe look at www.printablepaper.net and see if the 1 to 10 log paper you prefer is there.

Great idea KL. For those who are interested, this is a website that has free samples of paper you can download as a pdf and print out. They do have paper that will work. I’d go for either:

Semi-log paper: 70 Divisions 5th, 10th Accent by 1-Cycle

or

Semi-log paper: 90 Divisions (2 Millimeters) 5th, 10th Accent by 1-Cycle

What you want is the semi-log with one cycle. One cycle means it goes from 1 to 10, which is what you want to put prices and earnings on a log scale, going up and down. You want it only semi-log, and not log-log, because you want to keep the horizontal axis normal for the months as they pass.

The paper I use is 70 divisions, which means I can get 70 months or almost 6 years on a page. I usually start with graphing the quarterly results for at least a year or year and a half back before I buy in, so it makes sense. I use a separation of 3 vertical lines for a quarter (3 months), so I can graph monthly prices each month.

Saul

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