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Strategies & Market Trends : Value Investing
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To: Grommit who wrote (56512)1/1/2016 1:03:36 PM
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Those are great returns Grommit, but simple average should not be used for returns over time. Better to use no calculation at all IMO.

When you lose 50% and gain 100% you are back to even, but on a simple average you have earned a simple average of 25%.

MC
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