# How To Convert Investment Returns

Usually, we look at investment returns in terms of annual returns. However, your numbers may be expressed as daily, weekly, or monthly returns. Here’s how to convert them. The idea is that you compound to use the general formula for returns and compound them to an annual period. $r_a = (1 + r)^n - 1$ Where $$r_a$$ is the annual return, $$r$$ is the return (in decimal) and $$n$$ is the number of periods in a year. …

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# Trading Technical Analysis - A Refreshing Take

There’s some controversy on whether technical analysis and chart reading are better than fundamental analysis and intrinsic valuation. I personally don’t have a dog in the fight. However, scanning reddit, I found a couple of interesting answers to a thread called “Change my mind: Technical Analysis is a complete nonsense” on r/CryptoCurrency Card And the original post on r/Bitcoin Card

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# Cumulative & Annualized Returns

The cumulative return of an investment is the aggregate return that an investment has gained or lost over time (it can be both positive or negative). If you have Open-High-Low-Close stock data, you can compute cumulative returns on its adjusted price as dividends, and stock splits will lead to incorrect results. $R_c = \frac{P_c}{P_i} - 1$ where $$R_c$$ is the cumulative return, $$P_c$$ is the current price, and $$P_i$$ is the initial price. …

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