Gilt Trade Issue

DeepSporran

GiltTrader1 said:

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Deep Sporran- appreciate your above suggestion as a way to look at things- do you mean recover the 'gain' plus another 4%?
Again thanks everyone.

I took a best guess at the gilts you'd bought in April 24 and looked for the lowest price and highest price during that month (I don't know precisely when you bought them). I then compared those prices with today's price and calculated the gain, also adding in the coupon. That's where I was getting the 4% increase

I had a quick look at the numbers again, now you've listed the actual gilts (I assume  your TN26A is a typo for T26A). Theyre not all as good as 4% gain over a year, but it depends on the actual purchase price of course. The range is about 3.3% to 4.7% if the glits were each bought on the cheapest day in April and -0.81% to 4% if they were bought on the worst day in April.

Hope that's encouraging !