X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~yarrgweb/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=yarrg%2Fweb%2Fdocs;h=6f754bff46e258472de8c5d413723ab7fa8eb117;hb=4c6a28f4cbed2ed351697f63f30fb4827259f6a9;hp=48a0062f70c6953d8744e5981ce5807875966a9d;hpb=850e6582f48afb204e4f1d1710002a3bb6dac0a4;p=ypp-sc-tools.web-live.git diff --git a/yarrg/web/docs b/yarrg/web/docs index 48a0062..6f754bf 100755 --- a/yarrg/web/docs +++ b/yarrg/web/docs @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ After getting the results, you can untick various trades individually, and select `Update' to get a new plan. The unticked trades will be excluded from the voyage plan (if any) and also from the totals. -
-Trades whose margin is less than the expected loss are never selected. -For example, if you select 1% loss per league, and plan a voyage of 5 -leagues, then any trade with a margin of less than 5.15% would be -completely excluded (5.15% not 5% because the loss works like compound -interest). Theoretically very profitable trades which are close to -the expected break-even point because of the distance can also be -rejected by the optimiser in favour of shorter distance trades with -theoretically smaller margins. +Trades whose margin is less than the expected loss are never included +in the suggested plan. For example, if you select 1% loss per league, +and plan a voyage of 5 leagues, then any trade with a margin of less +than 5.15% would be completely excluded (5.15% not 5% because the loss +works like compound interest). Theoretically very profitable trades +which are close to the expected break-even point because of the +distance can also be rejected by the optimiser in favour of shorter +distance trades with theoretically smaller margins, if it's not +possible to do both.