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Re: [amibroker] Re: Profit on Short selling



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Hi Jaco,

Indeed it seems that I made this stupid error. 
This affects only short trades. Longs are calculated OK.
I am sorry.
This will be fixed in the next release. 

Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jaco -Mercatos" <jaco@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: Profit on Short selling


> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> Please correct the system's calculation of % profit and profit on Short
> selling. The profit can never be bigger than 100%. Example:
> 
> Sell 10000 units of XYZ at $1-00 each = $ 10 000-00
> Buy 10000 units back at $0-01 each = $ 100-00
> 
> Profit equals $9 900-00
> % Profit equals (9900/10000*100) = 99%
> 
> Regards.
> 
> AJ Jonker
> 
> 
> 
> 
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