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Re: wild_card post# 21733

Friday, 02/24/2006 11:25:22 AM

Friday, February 24, 2006 11:25:22 AM

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suppose collumn C contains the returns for each year.
put =log10(1+C5) in collumn, say, N.
=10^(average(N5:N14)-1 computes the average compound return of those 10 years.

e.g., ndx96-05 correct return is 10.91% per year, not 19.69% as shown in the spreadsheet.

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