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by hervature
1842 days ago
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No, you were correct, arithmetic mean of returns is not standard in finance. If it was, financial crashes would be much worse. They do arithmetic means of "log returns" because 1/n sum(log(r)) = log(product(r)^(1/n)). That is, in log world, the arithmetic mean is the geometric mean. |
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