http://www.stockpickins.com/stock-indices/how-do-you-quantify-in-dollar-terms-the-points-gained-or-lost-in-the-stock-indices/ Cherry Picking The Diamonds From The Stock Market Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:38:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.stockpickins.com/stock-indices/how-do-you-quantify-in-dollar-terms-the-points-gained-or-lost-in-the-stock-indices/comment-page-1/#comment-2037 dnldslk Sun, 31 May 2009 21:31:59 +0000 http://www.stockpickins.com/stock-indices/how-do-you-quantify-in-dollar-terms-the-points-gained-or-lost-in-the-stock-indices#comment-2037 The easiest way to approach this problem: look at the percentage gain or loss of an index and apply that same percentage to an investment. A specific example: SPY is an index based on the S P 500. You can follow its daily fluctations alonside the index. You should note that they pretty much have a one to one correlation.<br><b>References : </b><br> The easiest way to approach this problem: look at the percentage gain or loss of an index and apply that same percentage to an investment. A specific example: SPY is an index based on the S P 500. You can follow its daily fluctations alonside the index. You should note that they pretty much have a one to one correlation.
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