Ok CJ this is my last comment on this because it is pointless...

Ok CJ this is my last comment on this because it is pointless repeating myself (and it is cluttering the board).

You cannot take a three monthly investment gain, sell it, and then extrapolate it into a yearly average. That is because you NO LONGER ARE MAKING GAINS ON THE STOCK. So a $100 investment yielding 25% (i.e. being $125) sold at 3 months cannot be represented as being worth $200 at a year. That is both math and reality. It is still a 25% gain one day, one month, one year, and one decade after you closed it. You might compare it against something it took you four times as long to make a 25% gain in -- but it will never change the percentage gain you realised.

IF I were to compare investments between each other then I would look at absolute cash or percentage gains. Of course, one looks at investments in a general sense -- e.g. "man that was a great stock I wish I bought more", or "that was a real dog". But trying to calculate how much better off I might have been by buying X shares of the SP 500 is pointless -- because I cannot dial back the clock and buy them instead -- and (despite your insane CAGR monthly extrapolations) past performance is no indication of future performance.

As for Lynas - I first bought at .0415 c on Sept 11, 2015 (and at 3.8, 3.4, 6.3, 8.1 and a few others). By pointless comparison - the SP 500 was at 1961.05 when I first bought. But I never bought the SP 500 so it doesn't matter.

Nuff said.