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Attempting to profit from short-term fluctuations in a security's price as opposed to investing in the security for use or income.

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Correct return calculation if short position involved

I wanted to calculate the daily return for a long-short position. Say one has 1 unit of stock A (long) and alpha units of stock B short. How can one now calculate correctly the daily percentage return …