I was thinking as simply as possible. Whatever your current price formula spits out for August, call it X, make the actual August price = (X + 187)/2.

You should still converge to the same place, but with less volatility and probably a little slower.

Undisciplined

I like this.  How do we forecast ex-post-cost income?

jeff

econ

[meta] ~econ [2024Q3]

The most obvious volatility reduction strategy, to me, is to only adjust posting fees by a fraction of what is recommended by your formula. Basically, dampen the system.