[tedunangst]

Pick a shorter timeframe like one month, calculate annualized rate.

[mgaunard]

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.

[OscarCunningham]

Then you'd say 'the S&P hasn't been going up at 7% recently'.

[tedunangst]

The pedantry hasn't been making you a more effective communicator recently.

[TheRealPomax]

Welcome to finance: if you're not being pedantic, you're probably trying to sell a lie. Verb tense absolutely matters.

[tedunangst]

Does anybody here believe aardvarkr was trying to sell a lie with their casual verb tense?

[bagacrap]

pick 3 months and try it.