Making slow progress!!!
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The real question is : what is the risk taken when I invest my money in that activity ?! or what are the performance of my investiment on the marketIf people want to use maths and percents, that's ok, but they should use them only when they know what they'r talking about. Do you know what 1% change price of water priced for 0.06 is? Well that is 0.0594. Water fluctuates (as I said in previous post with 0.01 cent. That means it can be 0.05 c on the market or 0.07 (average), but it never is 0.0594, the relative fluctuations are 16,6%,
wood generaly goes up or down in the order of 1$ which is not even 5%
The water is more volatile due to it lower price and there are only 2 decimals, which mean also that the risk mathematic took by the water more important than the wood.
HOWEVER, the water is used in 40 activities compare to 5 activities for wood. The probabily to sell your water is 8 times more important than the wood bushels.
BUT, I spoke about performances and not risk

With a number I able to tell you its pros and cons.
BECAREFUL : A volativity and a sensitivity isn't the same thing! The volativity compare the risk takes, and the sensitivity (called : B