Secret signals at YahooFinance site?

It much looks like a dumb programmer/programming error... :)
Code: 
numdecimals = 2;
if (price < 1.0) numdecimals = 4;      // even for percentages... :-)
 
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thecoder said:
YahooFinance usually shows only 2 decimals for "% Change", but sometimes it shows even 4 or even 5 decimals. Has this maybe a secretive meaning? Maybe a secret conspiracy of the cabal giving some public, but secretive, signals to its... cabalist... members? :)

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Can you make money by the secret meanings behind the mysterious choice to quote percentage delta usage of 4 digits after the decimal, in instruments quoted 4 digits after the decimal?

No? Then just forget about it.
 
thecoder said:
True, dude! So then think logically: does it then need more decimals to display the percentage change, or rather less decimals?... It doesn't make sense... :)
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Dude, it makes perfect sense to me. There are 4 decimals in $, which means it needs more decimals for the %.

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It seems they now have fixed it. Take a look at "% Change" for ticker METX.
If they haven't fixed it, then it could indeed mean a secret signal then, what else!?... :)

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thecoder said:
It seems they now have fixed it. Take a look at "% Change" for ticker METX.
If they haven't fixed it, then it could indeed mean a secret signal then, what else!?... :)

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It means that some millennial or Gen-Z programmer finally remembered him/her learning "rounding up/down" in second grade.

Nah, they didn't learn it in school, because they were too busy tik-toking in class. They looked it up.
 
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