"fight the tape" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the early 20th-century practice of printing stock prices on ticker tape.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fights the tape",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fighting the tape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought the tape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought the tape",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fight<,,fought> the tape"
      },
      "expansion": "fight the tape (third-person singular simple present fights the tape, present participle fighting the tape, simple past and past participle fought the tape)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Trading",
          "orig": "en:Trading",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I kept buying hoping the price would go up, but I eventually decided I was fighting the tape."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a trade contrary to the overall tendency of prices, i.e., to buy when prices are generally falling or sell when prices are generally rising."
      ],
      "id": "en-fight_the_tape-en-verb-MovW7hFg",
      "links": [
        [
          "trading",
          "trading#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(trading) To make a trade contrary to the overall tendency of prices, i.e., to buy when prices are generally falling or sell when prices are generally rising."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance",
        "trading"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fight the tape"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the early 20th-century practice of printing stock prices on ticker tape.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fights the tape",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fighting the tape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought the tape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought the tape",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fight<,,fought> the tape"
      },
      "expansion": "fight the tape (third-person singular simple present fights the tape, present participle fighting the tape, simple past and past participle fought the tape)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Trading"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I kept buying hoping the price would go up, but I eventually decided I was fighting the tape."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make a trade contrary to the overall tendency of prices, i.e., to buy when prices are generally falling or sell when prices are generally rising."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "trading",
          "trading#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(trading) To make a trade contrary to the overall tendency of prices, i.e., to buy when prices are generally falling or sell when prices are generally rising."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance",
        "trading"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fight the tape"
}