A facet of technical analysis that looks to the past rate of return of a bond, stock, security, index, or fund to predict possible future data points within the standard deviations. Historical returns may also be used by analysts to predict future price returns or to determine how a security may react in a particular situation, such as a decline in buying. They’re generally associated with a security or index, like the S&P 500.
Historical Returns
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