Comments on: Future Value of Regular Contributions http://www.theamateurfinancier.com/blog/future-value-of-regular-contributions/ Thoughts on Money, Investing and Life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Roger, the Amateur Financier http://www.theamateurfinancier.com/blog/future-value-of-regular-contributions/#comment-16308 Roger, the Amateur Financier Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:29:38 +0000 http://www.theamateurfinancier.com/blog/?p=772#comment-16308 @Carlos: I'm not sure why you are having problems; not being familiar with MatLab, I don't know if it's something particular to that program. The calculations I have listed are correct as best I can tell, but it's possible that something is wrong. Sorry I can't pinpoint any errors. @Carlos: I’m not sure why you are having problems; not being familiar with MatLab, I don’t know if it’s something particular to that program. The calculations I have listed are correct as best I can tell, but it’s possible that something is wrong. Sorry I can’t pinpoint any errors.

]]> By: Carlos http://www.theamateurfinancier.com/blog/future-value-of-regular-contributions/#comment-15691 Carlos Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:04:21 +0000 http://www.theamateurfinancier.com/blog/?p=772#comment-15691 Hello, I am trying to write a program in MatLab to give an amount of money saved after a number of months with an initial value, a monthly contibution an some interest rate. I started with a simple for loop to iterate new amount = amount(1 + interest) + contribution I am trying to optimize my program by calculating the whole vector at once. For some reason it only works when I use. FV = PV + C*[({1+i}^n - 1)*i] Am I missing something? Thank you Hello,

I am trying to write a program in MatLab to give an amount of money saved after a number of months with an initial value, a monthly contibution an some interest rate. I started with a simple for loop to iterate

new amount = amount(1 + interest) + contribution

I am trying to optimize my program by calculating the whole vector at once. For some reason it only works when I use.

FV = PV + C*[({1+i}^n - 1)*i]

Am I missing something?

Thank you

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