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    recovery calculator

    Hello Everyone.
    I was wondering if anyone can help me please.
    I have a spreadsheet that lists a table of recovery from drawdown figures.
    I have come up with a calculator which I have formatted but I do not know how to create the formulas to get it working
    I attach the spreadsheet here if anyone could help me & would like to look.
    http://tinyurl.com/kjurk3

    1. Basically you enter the amount of money before drawdown.(Cell O11)
    2. Then you can enter either;
    £ Lost (Cell I16)
    or % Lost (Cell L16)
    or % Left (Cell O16)
    3. Depending on which one of the above 3 you entered the calculator would automatically
    calculate the other 2 cells & return 2 more stats which would be;
    4. Recovery % Required (To return to Initial Start Equity (Cell O21)
    5. Recovery Amount Required in £ To return to Initial Starting Equity.(Cell O23)

    I do hope someone could help me as I am not able to work this out
    in excel formula to get the cells producing the correct results.
    This really would be most useful.
    I thank you all for your time.
    I really hope someone can help me with this.
    Many Thanks again
    TheGhost
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    Re: recovery calculator

    I am confused.

    is not %recovery (o21) is same as percentage lost (L16)
    similarly recover required (O123) is same amount lost(I16)

    I6 is O11*C7
    L16 is I16.O11
    O16 is =(O11-I16)/O11

    of course if you can use any value in column C

    further clairfication is sought.

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    Re: recovery calculator

    A rather late reply Venkat1926!!
    Only about 3 1/2 years!!
    You say;
    "%recovery (o21) is same as percentage lost (L16)"
    No, % recovery is not the same as % lost.
    IE. If you lose 20.64% (Starting Cap) £3,000, you need a 26.006% increase on your account to recover what you lost.
    "Also, recovery require is same as amount lost"
    No, similar to my above reply.
    If anybody can fathom this out I'd be really grateful
    It would be a really handy calculator, (If it was working!)

    All the best
    TheGhost
    PS. Sorry for my late reply,
    I just seemed to have been asleep for a long time!

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    Re: recovery calculator

    Just To Add as an example Venkat1926
    here's a siimple example; With a £3,000 starting cap
    TOTAL LOSS BALANCE % LEFT % LOST % TO RECOVER
    £1,000.00 £2,000.00 66.66% 33.33% 50.00%

    See recovery % is higher than / & different to % lost
    If anybody knows how to "Fill in the missing cells in my sheet I'd be on planet gogo!
    many thanks again
    TheGhost

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    Re: recovery calculator

    Try this. The calculation for the other two are the same.
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    Re: recovery calculator

    Hi Mrjinx007!!
    Many thanks for your reply.
    Your formula for the % left,, I think it needs to be;
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    Because there is £2000 left from the £3,000 starting stake.
    Your formula is taking into account only the £1000 lost
    Yep, I think that's it?

    Also recovery % required;(Cell O21)
    If you started with £3,000 & you lose £1,000, so you now have £2,000 left.
    So,, you now need a 50% increase to get back to £3,000 (IE 50% of £2,000 is £1,000)
    £2,000 you have now + the £1,000 gets you back to the £3,000 starting amount.
    I've got this formula now as;
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    So also the recovery in £'s has to equate to £2,000,, so formula would be I think;
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    Yes, that's it I think.

    So, now it's working (Kind of) ,,, but ONLY if someone enters data in cell I16 (The £ lost Cell)
    What I really would love this calc to be able to do is function when only 1 of the 3 yellow cells has data inserted. (The 3 yellow cells being either £ Lost, or % lost or % left).

    I've thought of a way to do this ,,, IE for the formulas to be in cells hidden 1 row below the 3 yellow cells.
    that way, the yellow cells don't need formulas in,, they are just a user input field.
    I'll link to an example sheet so this is all making sense; with all the formulas in as it stands now
    Calc-download

    I've changed the table formula cells in the sheet with the above link, but that's how the calc stands now.
    So,, the formulas would be a bit more complicated,,
    As they will work if just 1 of the 3 yellow fields has a user input inserted.
    This is where I'm stumped.
    Must be some kind of IF/OR formulas.
    I'm really not too great in formulas in excel (Or anything else to be honest)
    It's above me.
    If anybody has any idea how this can be achieved I'm all ears.
    Again,
    Many thanks for your reply
    Always greatly appreciated
    I really hope somebody can crack this, it's above me
    Regards
    TheGhost
    Last edited by theghost; 04-07-2013 at 09:22 AM.

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    Re: recovery calculator

    I think you are on the right track. You do need the formulas in different cells and not in the yellow boxes. And the type of formula would probably be either index and match or VLOOKUP (verdical lookup). It would probably be a good idea to name your ranges as well. I will check this out and get back with you as I am a trader in the stocks.

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    Re: recovery calculator

    I used a match function and it seem to work. The only problem is that it rounds out the 33.33% to 34%. See attached.
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    Re: recovery calculator

    In % left put : =INDEX(D6:D106,MATCH(L16,C6:C106,0)) Not sure why it matches the number + 2?? You can mark this as solved and pose the question to the forum so someone can fix the formulas.

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    Re: recovery calculator

    Hi Mrjinx007.
    Many thanks for getting back to me.
    Yes, I think I will mark this post as solved.

    Actually; I think there is a better way to do this calculator,,, so I best start a new post, as I really don't want to confuse the issue.
    It needs to be K.I.S.S. :-)

    I'll work out a post & see if anybody can help, I feel the way to go would be a VBA solution, but I'm not clever enough to code it! :-)
    It will be hard enough me explaining it in a new post! ;-)

    Many thanks again for your reply.

    PS, as a note:
    A good trading calculator here:
    It's FREE, & on a similar topic to this thread so it is relevant & might help somebody.
    It's a 'Multiple Losing Streak ‘Probability’ Calculator'
    here's the link:
    Multiple Losing Streak Probability Calculator

    Hope it helps & thanks again for your replies
    All the best
    TheGhost

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