More Than 96% of Apple's Long-term Returns Were Profitable
Apple's (AAPL) long-term (January 2004 - June 2024) upside price trend produced many more profitable returns than unprofitable ones.
3D Chart of All Buy any Sell Returns
The following 3D chart of buy and sell percent returns from January 2004 to June 2004 uses 246 monthly closes.
For that period there were 30,135 buy and sell percent returns. 29,096 (96.55%) buy and sell returns made money (green areas) and 1,039 (3.45%) lost money (red areas). The ratio of unprofitable returns to profitable returns was 28.004.
The average return was 18.76%.
Important Lesson
Prolonged price upsides produce profitable returns.
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