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Re:Never Hertz to Ask by jhrmnn on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:54AM (#23516690)
Stock price changes should be reported on a logarithmic scale, something like a decibel, perhaps finer, a centibel, cB. You go down 90%, that’s 10x less, -100 cB. You go up 900%, that’s 10x more, +100 cB. A 5% decrease is 1.0526x less, -2.2 cB, a 5% increase is 1.05x more, +2.1 cB.

The fact that 5% is roughly 2 cB is because you need 100/2 = 50 of 5% increases (decreases) to give you roughly a 10x increase (decrease)

Re:Never Hertz to Ask by optimiz3 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:28PM (#23519514)
It's known as lognormal returns in quantitative circles.