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Glossary term

Winner-Minus-Loser

A spread between the strongest-ranked and weakest-ranked assets.

Winner-minus-loser, often shortened to WML, measures how much the top-ranked group beat the bottom-ranked group.

Example: If winners return 2% and losers return 1% in a month, WML is 1%.

Where this appears

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