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Conference nyoss1::market_investing

Title:Market Investing
Moderator:2155::michaud
Created:Thu Jan 23 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1060
Total number of notes:10477

359.0. "Calculating returns" by MCIS2::SHERWIN (Jim Sherwin) Tue Jan 19 1993 12:02

    Something tells me I should know how to do this, but I'm drawing a
    blank.  How do I calculate the periodic return, with a mid-term
    contribution. e.g.
    
    	Begin of period	Balance =	1000
    
    	Mid-term	Contribution =	 250
    
    	End of period	Balance =	1500
    
    
    What's the formula to calculate my periodic return?
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359.122.22 %BROKE::RAMWed Jan 20 1993 21:3716
    Let A(i) = i'th investment
    Let p(i) = period of the i'th investment
    Let F = final value of investment
    Then growth in investment G = F - (A(1) + A(2) + ... + A(n))
    where n is the number of investments.

    Then yield Y = G / ( (A(1) * p(1)) + (A(2) * p(2)) + .... + (A(n) * p(n)) )

    In your case A(1) = 1000, p(1) = 1, A(2) = 250, p(2) = 0.5

    So G = 1500 - 1250 = 250,
    and Y = 250 /( 1000 * 1 + 250 * 0.5) = 250/1125 = 0.2222 or 22.22%