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Re: kgoodrich post# 209

Thursday, 05/01/2003 5:59:14 AM

Thursday, May 01, 2003 5:59:14 AM

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Hi Ken, all this debate on how to calculate percentage, rang a bell. I went and took a closer look at your spreadsheet. You are calculating total percentage wrong. You are summing the percentages, you can not do that, you end up with a incorrect total. Example the June stocks spread sheet, for TMPW you had these percentages
 
TMPW
2002 -20%
2001 3%
2000 34%
1999 30%
1998 34%
TOT 80%

What you need to do is
1.34*1.30*1.34*1.03*.80= 1.9234
You now subtract one and get a total of 92.34%.
So you see you have a higher percentage than you thought!
It looks like BRCM is the June winner at 266.07%! I used this code to calculate total percent.
=((B8+1)*(B7+1)*(B6+1)*(B5+1)*(B4+1))-1

Come see me at Systematic Investing group #board-966 lets talk formula plans.

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