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Posted : Monday, June 10, 2013 1:10:00 AM
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Im seeing some varying % Change when using it under different timeframes.  For instance, if you look up AAPL on a daily chart, from 1/2/13 through 6/7/13, it will produce

 

How is the % Change that appears in the Custom Date Sort dialog box calculated?  For a daily time frame it almost makes sense.  if you change to a weekly then monthly specifying the same date range, it shows different results:

 

AAPL Close 1/2/13 - 549.03

APPL Close 6/7/13 - 441.81

Daily                Weekly                 Monthly

-19.53               -16.17                    -3.00

 

Again using the exact same date range.  Daily is what I expect, but the weekly and monthly % chg, does not produce the same result, even though the custom date sort box shows the same date range.

I'm wondering how they are calculated?

Here's some screen shots

Daily:

Weekly:

Monthly:

Bruce_L
Posted : Monday, June 10, 2013 10:06:35 AM


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The calculations in any given time frame are done entirely using the bars in that time frame. Date from other time frames is not considered in those calculations.

So on a Daily Time Frame, you are using the closing values for 1/2/2013 and 6/7/2013:

100 * (441.81 / 549.03 - 1) = -19.53%

On a Weekly Time Frame, you are using the closing values for 1/4/2013 and 6/7/2013:

100 * (441.81 / 527.00 - 1) = -16.17%

And on a Monthly Time Frame, you are using the closing values for 1/31/2013 and 6/7/2013:

100 * (441.81 / 455.49 - 1) = -3.00%



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Posted : Monday, June 10, 2013 11:52:27 AM
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Thank you, after watching the "Finding Top Performers with Custom Date Sort" and "Seasonality Analysis with Custom Date Sort". that reducing your timeframe down to a weekly or monthly timeframe to do a > 2 year study could produce skewed results.  Could I request that they actually show the correct dates I am selecting in the custom date sort dialog?  Also if they could include the number of days between the two dates?

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Posted : Monday, June 10, 2013 11:56:11 AM
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Or allow us to tweak the dates by manually overriding the dates, that way we do not have to flip around in time frames, just give us the % chg for those time periods, and number of days......

Bruce_L
Posted : Monday, June 10, 2013 11:59:36 AM


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Thank you for your suggestion.



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