• comfy
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    310 hours ago

    I’m not experienced with stock markets, but is the concept of ‘normal’ really relevant, especially after a whole quarter? What factors would give it a tendency to return to the prior state?

    • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
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      17 hours ago

      Stock markets are very close to brownian motion. There is no return to normal.

      There is a market portfolio (people use the s&p500 as a proxy for this) so returns of sectors or individual stocks should be made relative to this.