Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia ...

I may be off with the terminology but here is what I'm trying to do. I have downloaded all of my transactions for my retirement funds for the last few years. For each transaction, I have the number of ...

Rate of return represents the percentage net gain or loss of an investment's initial cost over a period of time. The rate of return calculates the percentage change from the beginning to the end of a ...