- How long does it take to get back to even?
Understand recovery from a market decline: the peak, trough, first observed recovery and the limits of an unfinished record.
- Drawdown and return measure different experiences
Read endpoint changes beside the losses inside a holding period, with explicit dates and peak anchors.
- Price return, dividends and adjusted data
Understand why a price series, a provider-adjusted path and a total-return index need different labels.
- A calendar year is not a holding period
Compare annual changes with complete multi-year holding windows without treating overlapping samples as independent odds.
- How Market Backstory measures market history
The definitions behind endpoint changes, drawdowns, recoveries, matching conditions and complete annual windows.
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