buyupside.com Stock Return Calculator

Savvy investors know that buying stocks on the upside is the way to make money. For lengthy upsides of several months to many years, the total return and annualized returns can be spectacular. That's why people buy stocks. And over 90 percent of the buy and sell combinations make money for traders and short-term investors. Conversely, for an extended downside price series, most investors and traders lose money because 90 percent or more of the possible trades are unprofitable.

Use the buyupside.com Stock Return Calculator to compute the total return, annualized return plus a summary of winning (profitable) and losing (unprofitable) buy and sell combinations for any stock, index, exchange-trade fund or mutual fund that is listed at finance.yahoo.com.

Simply enter any symbol recognized by finance.yahoo.com and your selected dates and price series interval. Then click on the submit button, and in a few seconds your results will be displayed on a new page. If this is your first time using the buyupside.com Stock Return Calculator, you may want to read the Help before completing the form.

Posted November 18, 2008.