Cryptico you're measuring the initial amount in terms of the remaining amount. Your 200% means that the initial amount is 200% higher than the remaining amount.
This is what is meant by the term "200% gain".
For a decrease in value, you need to measure the remaining amount in terms of the initial amount (i.e. the opposite way round). This would be 100 - 25/100 = 75% loss.
Ah ok I get it now the way you see it I see it in terms of gain so if I would not have sold I could have lost 200% of my tot gain that is what I meant.. If I initially invested 25 and then went up to 100 i would have gained 200% this would have been lost if I would not have sold.
How can you lose more than 100% of anything? You can be up 10,000% and if you lost it all, you lost 100%.
you loose 100% of what you have at the moment that 100 per cent is 200% more of what I invested first.
Let's just move on. I have a headache.
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You have looked at it as a loss in value of your initial investement I looked at it as a loss of potential tot gain from my initial investement. that's it