Tell me how to quickly interpret the results.

ANSWER

For CALCULATOR 1:

As long as the highlighted information below is positive, your investment in liquidity pool is fine. You are not suffering an overall loss.

For CALCULATOR 2:

As long as the highlighted information below is positive, your investment in liquidity pool is fine. You are not suffering an overall loss.

What is the main difference between CALCULATOR 1 and CALCULATOR 2?

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CALCULATOR 1 is for calculating impermanent loss and nett profit of a SINGLE FUND added in a 50%-50% weighted liquidity pool.

For example, you have added 10 Token A + 70 Token B to a liquidity pool. Prices of Token A and Token B might fluctuate after some time. You may use this calculator to find out what the impermanent loss is and whether your investment is successful (or was it better to HOLD?).

Analysis results:

1) INVESTED VALUE
2) FINAL/L.P VALUE
3) HOLDING VALUE
4) IMPERMANENT LOSS
5) NETT PROFIT (only if Reward Token Price and Reward Token Quantity information is provided by user)

CALCULATOR 2 is for calculating impermanent loss and nett profit of MULTIPLE FUNDS added in the SAME 50%-50% weighted liquidity pool.

For example, you have added three funds to the SAME pool:

Jan 2021: 10 Token A + 70 Token B
Apr 2021: 15 Token A + 100 Token B
Jul 2021: 5 Token A + 30 Token B
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Total: 30 Token A + 200 Token B

As such, the Total Quantity You Invested for Token A is 30 and 200 for Token B. To need to enter these two values in Calculator 2.

You also need to enter Your Current Total Quantity of Token A and Token B in the calculator. You may extract this information from the portfolio/analysis page of your LP site and input to the calculator. Below is an example:

Analysis results:

1) INVESTED VALUE
2) FINAL/L.P VALUE
3) HOLDING VALUE
4) IMPERMANENT LOSS
5) NETT PROFIT (only if Reward Token Price and Reward Token Quantity information is provided by user)

Since most people do not keep track of the initial prices when multiple funds are added, and to keep the Calculator 2 easy to use, users are not required to input this information. And because of that, Calculator 2 can't tell you what the Total Invested Value is like Calculator 1. It will only tell you the total impermanent loss and nett rewards. The Calculator 2 does a backward calculation with the help of Your Current Total Quantity info (see red box in screenshot above) input by user. The similar calculation is used by many DeFi sites.

Please be reminded that the funds must be added to the SAME pool for Calculator 2 to work correctly. The pool must be  50%-50% weighted.

I have added a few funds to the SAME liquidity pool on different dates. Now I am confused. How do I use the CALCULATOR 1 to check whether my overall investment is successful?

ANSWER

If you have added different funds to the SAME pool, for example:

APR 2021 - You added a fund to CAKE-USDT pool.

JUN 2021 - You added another fund to the same pool.

AUG 2021 - You added another fund to the same pool.

This becomes a bit complicated as the liquidity platform will usually lump all the rewards on its analysis page. Say you have received 40 CAKE rewards. You can't tell exactly how the rewards are distributed over different funds.

In this case, you have to use the CALCULATOR 2 instead of CALCULATOR 1 to find out the Overall Impermanent Loss and Overall Nett Rewards.