• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    General rule for posting stock prices: sometimes things are obvious when you zoom out a bit.

    In this particular case, Reddit stock price is still up several percentage points from the Trump rally that affected just about every tech stock after 2024-10-30 about. Same applies to other stocks like Tesla.

    So at this point it’s nothing more than a return to normal. No need to attribute anything more to it. But sure, if this descends keeps going for some time more, it’ll be different.

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      5 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?

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        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.

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      1 day ago

      Interesting! I didnt know that so many tech stocks were impacted on that date. Is there anything special about the start date of reddit’s stock decline? Or was it simple a “straw that broke the camel’s back” situation, where some insignificant thing started the downward trend?

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        1 hour ago

        Stocks overall took a downturn when investors finally realized Trump wasn’t bluffing bout his tariff plans