now I remember, I did look at it and it looked good but a bit different than what I was after.

I was thinking that there could be some way to give a quantifiable figure to a single bar that represents what it looks like inside the bar... e.g. the value for a straight line shooting upwards would be much differnent than an W or lightening bolt style of creeping upwards.

I've been busy today so I haven't had time to investigate cowboy's "efficiency ratio" suggestion. Sounds like it may be what I need.

But surely also your LPB looks like a powerful tool in the arsenal. thx.