# Information about the share price and the return

**URL:** <https://community.trading212.com/t/information-about-the-share-price-and-the-return/6154>\
**Category:** 📬 Stocks & ETFs requests\
**Created:** [May 8, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/information-about-the-share-price-and-the-return/6154 "2020-05-08T16:31:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![sebba1793](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@sebba1793](https://community.trading212.com/u/sebba1793)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/information-about-the-share-price-and-the-return/6154/1 "2020-05-08T16:31:09Z")

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Hi everyone can someone tell me why even the stock price is higher than the price I’ve paid for it , is still showing an negative return. Thanks

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trading212/original/2X/a/a37cf3405135914a6163a73e62bb408c4f1b342e.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Dao](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/dao/32/20739_2.png) [@Dao](https://community.trading212.com/u/Dao)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/information-about-the-share-price-and-the-return/6154/2 "2020-05-08T16:33:22Z")

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foreign exchange rate on currencies. since there is a rate between USD and GBP that changes as well, both are part of the profit/loss calculation.

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**Author:** ![Richard.W](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@Richard.W](https://community.trading212.com/u/Richard.W)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/information-about-the-share-price-and-the-return/6154/3 "2020-05-08T16:33:36Z")

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The chart is showing the buy price. The sell price will be lower. Also foreign exchange.