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how to compute the daily return?

2 messages · Michael, Khanh Nguyen

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Hi all,

If I have wealth number on the following days.... what's the standard
way of computing the daily return and growth rate? What's a standard
way of defining growth rate?

(360 day convention, and how about holidays and weekends)?

1/1/1999
1/4/1999
1/5/1999
1/6/1999
1/7/1999
1/8/1999
1/11/1999
1/12/1999
1/13/1999
1/14/1999
1/15/1999
1/18/1999


Thanks a lot!
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You can take a look here

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zoo/vignettes/zoo-quickref.pdf

there is a 'Price and Returns' section.

Moreover, package PerformanceAnalytics has a 'Return.Calculate' method
that I think you can use.

-k
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Michael<comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote: