Substantial differences in P/L when displaying in USD vs EUR

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I have assets in multiple currencies, mostly USD and EUR. I usually select USD as a visualization for my portfolio, but if I try changing it to EUR or any euro-paired currency (like CHF) the P/L and YTD data is substantially different, in some caseses more than 4 times lower in eur vs usd. How can this be possible? Surely currency conversions can’t account for this much variance

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Well, they can. They can even turn a profit into a loss (or the other way round).

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could you compare this in your portfolio? I’m getting quite big numbers here, for example (fake numbers) one is +30.000 usd profit, the other one is -1000 loss.

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To be honest, it is really hard to answer your question without any details on the actual transactions. What you are sharing sounds like very broad difference. But how to tell without a date, without knowing which exchange rates you are using (the built-in, your own custom ones), the size of a transaction (if it is about 1 billion, maybe 30K is not so much), …

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Even with USD300k purchase, USD30k gain, it can become easily negative gain viewed from EUR or even CHF perspective, since USD lost a lot of value recently.

But yes, without knowing time and order value, it is just guessing.

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