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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael who wrote (30)1/2/1998 12:36:00 AM
From: WBendus  Respond to of 18691
 
Michael,

I would calcuate the return on the total equity available at the beggining of the period for the purposes of calculating a percentage return. ie. If I had $100,000 in equity January 1, 1997 and produced $8,000 on longs and $16,000 on shorts by December 31, 1997, I would consider that to be a 24% return on my account. Total gains (long or short) divided by beggining capital.

Wayde.



To: Michael who wrote (30)1/2/1998 8:27:00 AM
From: Roger A. Babb  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18691
 
Michael, coumputing percentage gains is tricky. I compute mine by assuming that I am at risk for the price of the stock at the time of the short. If I short XYZ at $10 and later cover at $8 that would be a 20% gain. I admit that is an arbitrary definition.


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