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> s&p isn’t going up by 7% right now It always sounds weird to me when someone uses the present continuous tense to refer to the rate of change of stock prices
by OscarCunningham 4y ago
> s&p isn’t going up by 7% right now
It always sounds weird to me when someone uses the present continuous tense to refer to the rate of change of stock prices. Like, how are you taking the one-sided derivative of a fractal?
- tedunangst 4y agoPick a shorter timeframe like one month, calculate annualized rate.
- OscarCunningham 4y agoThen you'd say 'the S&P hasn't been going up at 7% recently'.
- tedunangst 4y agoThe pedantry hasn't been making you a more effective communicator recently.
- TheRealPomax 4y agoWelcome to finance: if you're not being pedantic, you're probably trying to sell a lie. Verb tense absolutely matters.
- tedunangst 4y agoDoes anybody here believe aardvarkr was trying to sell a lie with their casual verb tense?
- mgaunard 4y agoThat's a bad idea, since equities have a lot of calendar events and a given month is never representative of a year's performance.
- bagacrap 4y agopick 3 months and try it.
- aardvarkr 4y agoI bet you’re fun at parties. The right way to phrase it would be to throw in a “YoY” but clearly you care too much to ever let someone on the internet dare to make such a pedantic mistake. Try contributing to the conversation instead of detracting from it.