I think their point is that predicting that "the stock will go up by 1$" or "the stock will go down by 1$" is worse than "the stock will go up by 0.05%" and "th

I think their point is that predicting that "the stock will go up by 1$" or "the stock will go down by 1$" is worse than "the stock will go up by 0.05%" and "the stock will go down by 0.05%" because of this little paradox: 50$ increase from 50$ is 100% increase 50$ decrease from 100$ is 50% decrease e.g., if the model finds 50$ increase/decreases, that actually corresponds to very different wealth changes