Given investment horizon of 30 days, Ancestry.com Inc. is expected to generate 1.26 times more return on investment than China. However, Ancestry is 1.26 times more volatile than China Finance Online Ltd.. It trades about -0.09 of its potential returns per unit of risk. China Finance Online Ltd. is currently generating about -0.23 per unit of risk. If you would invest 2,571 in Ancestry.com Inc. on April 25, 2012 and sell it today you would lose (392.00) from holding Ancestry.com Inc. or give up 15.25% of portfolio value over 30 days.
Diversification
Good diversification
Overlapping area represents amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Ancestry.com Inc. and China Finance Online Co. Ltd. in the same portfolio (assuming nothing else is changed)