recommended sites for plotting/graphing over more than 5 years?

12tonelizzie · 15 July 2011 at 12:06AM

pressuredrop_2 · 15 July 2011 at 12:22AM

Trustnet is useful. Tools.

Ark_Welder · 15 July 2011 at 12:26AM

12tonelizzie wrote: »

Five years is widely considered a minimum investing horizon, so it's frustrating that H-L and Trustnet's charts have this as a maximum (unless I'm blundering again).

Trustnet does have two further options: 10-year and 'Since Fund Launch'. However, the graphs only display from the launch date of the shortest-lived fund, i.e. if you select 10 years and one fund is 11 years old and another is 4, then only the last 4 years are displayed.

The bonds charts I see tend more to be related to the yield and how it has changed rather than the prices of the underlying asset. Probably due to the fact that bonds tend to have a fixed duration (but by no means all do), so what is relevant is how the yields change over time. But this is not to say that there isn't a chart for IL-Gilts or bond fund sectors, I haven't tried looking for one of these.

e.g. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield

Try a search on 'bond yield charts' or similar

Ark_Welder · 15 July 2011 at 12:40AM

Ark_Welder wrote: »

Trustnet does have two further options:

Which I have based on the assumption that you have found the multi-plot charting in the Tools, as per pressuredrop's post?

Have you found that you can click on the green-circled '+' next to the names to add them to your Tools basket?