# Incorrect Return

**URL:** <https://community.trading212.com/t/incorrect-return/12604>\
**Category:** 🤝 Help\
**Created:** [July 7, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/incorrect-return/12604 "2020-07-07T16:48:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Caribbean\_stud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@Caribbean\_stud](https://community.trading212.com/u/Caribbean_stud)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/incorrect-return/12604/1 "2020-07-07T16:48:20Z")

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Is this an FX issue or a mathematical miscalculation?

 ![IMG_5522](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trading212/original/2X/6/6059abb5445b7865946705513e8bf258a578e552.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![chantal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/chantal/32/12676_2.png) [@chantal](https://community.trading212.com/u/chantal)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/incorrect-return/12604/2 "2020-07-07T16:51:41Z")

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Bit difficult to see in your screenshot. At history you can see the price and FX at the moment of purchase. Compare it to FX now.

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**Author:** ![Caribbean\_stud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@Caribbean\_stud](https://community.trading212.com/u/Caribbean_stud)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/incorrect-return/12604/3 "2020-07-07T17:35:17Z")

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Apparently the current price is 88.040000. I don’t see how that figure came to be. @David @George. Can you please advise?

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**Author:** ![George](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/george/32/22694_2.png) [@George](https://community.trading212.com/u/George)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/incorrect-return/12604/4 "2020-07-07T17:50:01Z")

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Your return can be a negative value even though the sell price is higher than your avg price when the instrument currency (USD) has depreciated in regard to your account currency (GBP) for the period of owning the shares.

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**Author:** ![Caribbean\_stud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@Caribbean\_stud](https://community.trading212.com/u/Caribbean_stud)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/incorrect-return/12604/5 "2020-07-07T18:05:33Z")

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@George @David. My buy price was 90.05 and the current price is 95.05. That is a +6% return and yet I am down a whopping 2% total! This can’t be due to FX rate because I bought it as 1.25GBP to USD and today it is 1.26 GBP USD.

Please advise?

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**Author:** ![Caribbean\_stud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@Caribbean\_stud](https://community.trading212.com/u/Caribbean_stud)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/incorrect-return/12604/6 "2020-07-07T18:27:12Z")

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These two photos explain the reason:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trading212/original/2X/6/65377879c353f0e3f6701594d71664c08ecdd126.png)  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trading212/original/2X/1/1e6228276b886618d3dd843fc03ae1c3f6bf8590.png)

Thank you @George @David