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Re:Shorting Tether for Fun and Profit by tedunangst on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:13PM (#34300899)
Pick a shorter timeframe like one month, calculate annualized rate.
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Re:Shorting Tether for Fun and Profit by OscarCunningham on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:37PM (#34301124)
Then you'd say 'the S&P hasn't been going up at 7% recently'.
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Re:Shorting Tether for Fun and Profit by tedunangst on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:58PM (#34301341)
The pedantry hasn't been making you a more effective communicator recently.
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Re:Shorting Tether for Fun and Profit by TheRealPomax on Sunday January 08, 2023 @01:14PM (#34301508)
Welcome to finance: if you're not being pedantic, you're probably trying to sell a lie. Verb tense absolutely matters.
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Re:Shorting Tether for Fun and Profit by tedunangst on Sunday January 08, 2023 @01:24PM (#34301607)
Does anybody here believe aardvarkr was trying to sell a lie with their casual verb tense?
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Re:Shorting Tether for Fun and Profit by mgaunard on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:59PM (#34301360)
That's a bad idea, since equities have a lot of calendar events and a given month is never representative of a year's performance.
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Re:Shorting Tether for Fun and Profit by bagacrap on Sunday January 08, 2023 @04:14PM (#34303202)
pick 3 months and try it.
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