# Need some help on the Compare Returns Chart

**URL:** <https://community.mycapitally.com/t/need-some-help-on-the-compare-returns-chart/235>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [September 1, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://community.mycapitally.com/t/need-some-help-on-the-compare-returns-chart/235 "2024-09-01T10:41:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roel](https://community.mycapitally.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0d9488/32.png) [@Roel](https://community.mycapitally.com/u/Roel)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://community.mycapitally.com/t/need-some-help-on-the-compare-returns-chart/235/1 "2024-09-01T10:41:53Z")

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I am comparing two assets; both are in Indian Rupees. The main asset is a Kotak private investment fund (the red line), the other is an account holding equity mutual funds (gray line). The main asset has data from July 17 onwards.

 ![image](https://community.mycapitally.com/uploads/default/original/1X/683d2dd0ab918cd362795c8e6c108b86fb493aa9.png)

If you look at the left side of the chart, there are these strange spikes and corresponding tooltip values. Obviously **Equity Mutual Funds** was not up 91.9% in just 4 days, neither was Kotak up 45.64% in that period.

Is this a bug or is there something I am not understanding?

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**Author:** ![Roel](https://community.mycapitally.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0d9488/32.png) [@Roel](https://community.mycapitally.com/u/Roel)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://community.mycapitally.com/t/need-some-help-on-the-compare-returns-chart/235/2 "2024-09-01T10:48:33Z")

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The other odd thing is that the Kotak fund shows a spike from 0 to its initial market value.

 ![image](https://community.mycapitally.com/uploads/default/original/1X/12e6698c59998000e9104ed1bf2e8c020d6f1686.png)

The fund was purchased on July 18 as you can see from the transactions, but the chart starts from July 17, which it really should not.

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**Author:** ![rafal](https://community.mycapitally.com/user_avatar/community.mycapitally.com/rafal/32/18_2.png) [@rafal](https://community.mycapitally.com/u/rafal)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 10:49am UTC](https://community.mycapitally.com/t/need-some-help-on-the-compare-returns-chart/235/3 "2024-09-01T10:49:45Z")

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Judging by the timeline you have enabled always annualizing returns. In such case, it does make sense to do 95% in 4 days (as the 4 day’s returns is extrapolated to a whole year). Just change it to Auto. Click “Set as project defaults” as well if you want.

 ![CleanShot 2024-09-01 at 12.48.49@2x](https://community.mycapitally.com/uploads/default/original/1X/8d5df1d3de086200cf81f267fd8b8d185ff39869.png)

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**Author:** ![rafal](https://community.mycapitally.com/user_avatar/community.mycapitally.com/rafal/32/18_2.png) [@rafal](https://community.mycapitally.com/u/rafal)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://community.mycapitally.com/t/need-some-help-on-the-compare-returns-chart/235/4 "2024-09-01T10:52:23Z")

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> [@Roel](#):
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> The fund was purchased on July 18 as you can see from the transactions, but the chart starts from July 17, which it really should not.

If you select “max”, the chart will start from the day before, so it will always start at 0 - this way you clearly know you have the full history

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**Author:** ![Roel](https://community.mycapitally.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/0d9488/32.png) [@Roel](https://community.mycapitally.com/u/Roel)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 11:20am UTC](https://community.mycapitally.com/t/need-some-help-on-the-compare-returns-chart/235/5 "2024-09-01T11:20:04Z")

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OK. That makes sense. Looking much better now.

 ![image](https://community.mycapitally.com/uploads/default/original/1X/6933d271c0883eb60445db286a30007147ed7155.png)

I have another question. I have my accounts nested. It is like Zerodha and within that I have Equity Mutual Funds, Debt Mutual Funds, and Arbitrage Mutual Funds. I don’t seem to be able to compare against Zerodha, i.e. the parent level.

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**Author:** ![rafal](https://community.mycapitally.com/user_avatar/community.mycapitally.com/rafal/32/18_2.png) [@rafal](https://community.mycapitally.com/u/rafal)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.mycapitally.com/t/need-some-help-on-the-compare-returns-chart/235/6 "2024-09-01T12:31:28Z")

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Currently the only way to use an account folder as a benchmark is create a filter, as you can use any filter as a benchmark. The filter would be `Account folder` `includes` `Zerodha`.  
Once you save it, you can search for it on the benchmarks list.
