In microsoft.public.money, brett wrote:

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% gain is "gain divided by cost basis" as a percentage.

TR All Dates seems to be something like
((currentValue+amountReceived) /
(amountSpent-amountReceived))-1 as a percentage. So if you are
where you started, it would read 0%. If you lost all of your
money, it would be -100%

Buy 100 xyz at $10, and sell 99 xyz at $10.11.

TR All will show 1%, and %gain will show 100%.

There are dozens of useful columns available, and only one real dud.

Thanks about the TR columns...and the other good info.

What is wrong with the %Gain column?

In microsoft.public.money, brett wrote:

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If you have no distributions, then Gain and PriceAppreciation
columns would be expected to match.

If you reinvest distributions, things will be a little more complex.
Reinvestment makes the basis go up because you bought new shares.

There are dozens of useful columns available in the Portfolio.
However "%Gain" is not one. Don't use that one while attempting to
get useful information. :-(

For purposes of comparing fund performance, I suggest the various
TotalReturn (TR) columns.

On Aug 7, 7:33*am, Cal Learner-- MVP <via_newsgr...[at]please.tnx> wrote:
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Yes - it does. Thanks.

I'm still unclear what you mean about the relationship between cost
basis and market value. All of my new funds have the same amount
under the gain and price appreciation columns. But my older funds
that have gains (and dividends), which I sold some of, have different
amounts there.

In microsoft.public.money, brett wrote:

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Distributions (from typical mutual funds, that would be dividends
and LT CG paid) of $100 would explain it.

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Dividends are real money. If you are one who thinks distributions
don't matter (a common viewpoint in 1996...2000), or if you want a
number to help spot what the CG effect of selling your position
would be, configure in the PriceAppreciation column into the
Portfolio view. That should indicate $-25 in your example.

I have a fund in Money that is showing:

- cost basis of $500
- market value of $475
and gain of $65

How is that possible? I did have a large gain in this fund at one
time and sold most of the holding. I thought maybe somehow that
threw off Money but if that's the case, then there is a bug.