Two types of profit

[nottophammer]

Should this be in the maths section?

If you have a chart 18 columns wide with say a 1000 rows.(An excel spread sheet, yes).

Right,

you can make all the columns show a profit in row 1000.
at the end of each row record a profit or loss in two columns, at the bottom of these two columns, we can take one away and see if we have a profit.

Okay  when we ask column A 1000 to O 1000 to show the profits of the columns, say it returns £20'239.00. very nice. Now when we ask column S1000 the profit column substract  the T column losses, we return a profit say £2'089.00.still looking good.

Now the DAFT question,which is the true profit.

I'd say the £2'089. Now if i want the profits of the columns do i need to treat each column to its own b/r say £200.00, £3'000.00 B/R and keep each bet a seperate bet.