The article implies that the stock has only dropped 50% but has to recover 100% for you to gain your losses back, therefore implying that it is somehow harder for that to happen when it is not.
You can do whatever you want. All I'm saying is that if it does, it will return to the same level with as much ease as it dropped.
Well with him being an offspring, I can't see how Daddy's could have a earned enuf for anything eye-talian other than maybe a Fiat Geppetto.
This is not that hard concept to understand. In layman's term, it just means a stock will decline faster than it can rise. As a trader, I personally experienced 3 bear markets. Each time, the market took a nosedive that lasted anywhere between 12-24 months. But it took significantly longer to recover, usually double that time or even longer. What you're implying is that a given stock like GME can drop one day and recover the same extent the next day. While that is doable on a daily basis (or even weekly basis), it would be pretty damn difficult if it stretches out to the monthly or longer.
No,only a complete NOOB would would post that "if a stock drops 20%,it will simply have to rise by the same percentage to break even"... You are the only guy on this board who is confusing percentages with probabilities.. You havent mentioned distributions,volatility or anything remotely close. Why not run a simple backtest purchasing stocks 50% off their 1-2 year highs and come up with a distribution of returns? Ill spot you survivorship bias.. How much money have you made trading skew???