pit

From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.

he who digs a pit for others falls in himself


spread

en-noun

spread (countable and uncountable, plural spreads)

From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.

cog

(trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.

spredi

finance: difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity

(trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.

(trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.

(trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.

(trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.

spread

trading: difference between bid price and asking price


basis

en-noun

basis (plural bases or (rare) baseis or (nonstandard) basises)

bases (plural)
baseis (plural rare)
basises (nonstandard plural)

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (whence also come). Doublet of base.

Included in the basis could be elevation, cleaning, freight by truck and/or rail, government inspection fees, administration fees, interest and storage charges as well as allowance for risk and profit for the grain dealer.

(agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.

basis

agriculture: difference between cash price and futures price


job

en-verb

job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)

jobs (present singular third-person)
jobbing (participle present)
jobbed (participle past)
jobbed (past)

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

der

(transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.


tape

en-noun

tape (countable and uncountable, plural tapes)

→ Danish: tape

→ Dutch: tape

→ Hausa: têf

→ Hindi: टेप (ṭep)

→ Irish: téip

→ Japanese: テープ (tēpu)

→ Korean: 테이프 (teipeu)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: tape, teip

Nynorsk: tape, teip

→ Spanish: teipe

→ Swahili: tepe, tepu

→ Swedish: tape, tejp

→ Thai: เทป (téep)

→ Tibetan: ཊེབ (ṭeb)

→ Turkish: teyp

→ Urdu:

→ Phalura: ṭeép

→ Welsh: tâp

From Middle English tape, tappe, from Old English tæppa, tæppe (“ribbon, tape”); further origin unclear. Probably akin to Old Frisian tapia (“to pull, rip, tear”), Middle Low German tappen, tāpen (“to grab, pull, rip, tear, snatch”), Middle High German zāfen, zāven (“to pull, tear”).

cog

Don’t fight the tape.

(trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.


agiotage

en-noun

agiotage (countable and uncountable, plural agiotages)

From French agiotage, from agioter (“to practice stockjobbing”), from agio.

(dated, trading) Stock exchange business; especially, stockjobbing, manipulation of securities prices.


spot market

The price on the futures market depends in part on the price on the spot market.

(trading, economics, finance) A market in which commodities are bought and sold for immediate delivery, with delivery usually taking place in the same or next business day.


rally

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-rally.wav

(business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)


rally

en-verb

rally (third-person singular simple present rallies, present participle rallying, simple past and past participle rallied)

rallies (present singular third-person)
rallying (participle present)
rallied (participle past)
rallied (past)

Bitcoin has still plunged in value by almost two-thirds this year, it should be said. But it has also rallied by about 10% since the downwards lurch when FTX filed for bankruptcy in mid-November, which is extraordinary.

2022 December 14, Nils Pratley, “Bitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?”, in The Guardian:

(business, trading, of the market, stocks etc., intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices.

покачвам се

to recover strength after a decline in prices


NYSE

New York Stock Exchange
w:New York Stock Exchange

(trading) Initialism of New York Stock Exchange.


dead cat bounce

en-noun

dead cat bounce (plural dead cat bounces)

dead cat bounces (plural)
dead-cat bounce (alternative)

From the idea that a cat dropped from a height might bounce without this indicating any actual life after hitting the ground.

Now, if you look at the chart of a stock that has suffered a collapse, you will see that at the bottom of each drop there is a small uptick, a rise in the price. This uptick, representing the smart money getting out because it knows what is coming, and fools getting in because they don't, is known as the dead cat bounce, so-called because if you drop a dead cat off a skyscraper the cat will bounce, too, but the movement doesn't mean the cat is alive.

1988, Sarah Graves [pseudonym; Mary Squibb], The Dead Cat Bounce (Home Repair is Homicide Series; 1), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN:

There's this thing called the Dead Cat Bounce. It's a stock market term, I believe. What it's talking about is the fact that even a stock that is essentially worthless and really going nowhere but down for ever can register a slight upward movement, just for a bit, because there is generally a floor for almost everything. The comparison rests on the fact that even when a cat hits the pavement from forty stories high and dies instantly, it'll still bounce back up a little.

2002, Iain Banks, “Dead Cat Bounce”, in Dead Air, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

Avoid taking a position in stocks that show dead-cat bounces. Those stocks see their price drop at least 15 percent in one session. A stock showing a dead-cat bounce tends to bounce higher and then decline, sometimes suffering additional dead-cat bounces three and six months later (if earnings related[…]).

2013, Thomas N. Bulkowski, “Swinging Tools and Setups”, in Swing and Day Trading: Evolution of a Trader, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 163:

financial instrument
financial instrument

(trading, idiomatic) A temporary recovery in the price of a financial instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run.

Library of Congress
New York Stock Exchange
U.S. News & World Report

Dead-Cat-Bounce

temporary recovery in the price of an instrument


catch a falling knife

en-verb

catch a falling knife (third-person singular simple present catches a falling knife, present participle catching a falling knife, simple past and past participle caught a falling knife)

catches a falling knife (present singular third-person)
catching a falling knife (participle present)
caught a falling knife (participle past)
caught a falling knife (past)

Buying that stock now would be catching a falling knife. Wait until you see capitulation.

(trading) To buy an instrument whose price is falling rapidly.

fånga en fallande kniv

(trading) To buy an instrument with the unconfirmed assumption that its price will reverse.


fight the tape

fight the tape (third-person singular simple present fights the tape, present participle fighting the tape, simple past and past participle fought the tape)

fights the tape (present singular third-person)
fighting the tape (participle present)
fought the tape (participle past)
fought the tape (past)

From the early 20th-century practice of printing stock prices on ticker tape.

I kept buying hoping the price would go up, but I eventually decided I was fighting the tape.

(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.


ticker tape

en-noun

ticker tape (usually uncountable, plural ticker tapes)

(trading, finance) Paper tape on which a stock ticker, news ticker or similar device would print incoming information.


dumping

dumping (countable and uncountable, plural dumpings)

→ Catalan: dumping, dúmping

→ Dutch: dumping

→ Finnish: dumping

→ French: dumping

→ German: Dumping

→ Hungarian: dömping

→ Indonesian: dumping

→ Italian: dumping

→ Japanese: ダンピング (danpingu)

→ Korean: 덤핑 (deomping)

→ Portuguese: dumping

→ Romanian: dumping

→ Spanish: dumping

→ Turkish: damping

(economics, trading) Selling goods at less than their normal price, or even at a loss, especially in the export market as a means of securing a monopoly.

дъмпинг

selling goods at less than their normal price, especially in the export market


stockjobber

stockjobbers (plural)
stock-jobber (alternative)

(chiefly British, trading) A stock exchange worker who deals only with brokers.

In this stock-jobbers’ heaven let us leave our dear countrymen for a little while, while I say a few words about the affairs of the people on the continent of Europe.

1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] , London: Reeves and Turner, page 105:

(British, derogatory, trading) An unscrupulous stockbroker.


futures market

(trading, economics, finance) An exchange in which one can trade on commodities or financial instruments at a specified price for delivery at a specified future time.


falling knife

(trading) A stock whose price has dropped rapidly.


commodity market

commodity market (plural commodity markets)

(business, trading, finance) A market where raw or primary products are exchanged.


PLA

(historical, trading) NYSE stock-ticker symbol for Playboy Enterprises, Inc., now PLBY.


antidumping

Instead, it relied on antidumping actions to combat what it said were unfair Chinese trade practices.

2007 April 2, David Lague, “China Says New U.S. Duty Disrupts Relations”, in New York Times:

(economics, trading) Intended to combat or prevent dumping, the sale of goods below cost for anticompetitive purposes

反傾銷 /反倾销

intended to combat or prevent dumping, the sale of goods below cost


stockjobbing

stockjobbing (usually uncountable, plural stockjobbings)

poor Kendall had a hard time of it to stop them at last, as Amos will to stop the mouths of the people about his stockjobbing.

1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 20:

(trading, dated) Making markets in equity securities; dealing in stocks and shares.


spot price

(trading, finance) The price at which an asset for immediate delivery is selling at a given time and place.


MOSS

w:Market Oriented Sector Selective talks

(trading) Acronym of Market Oriented Sector Selective talks.


carriage trade

(business, trading, finance) Retail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e., those who arrive in carriages.


arb

arb (countable and uncountable, plural arbs)

(finance, trading) The act of or potential for arbitrage.

(countable, finance, trading) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.


arb

en-verb

arb (third-person singular simple present arbs, present participle arbing, simple past and past participle arbed)

arbs (present singular third-person)
arbing (participle present)
arbed (participle past)
arbed (past)

(finance, trading, transitive) To engage in arbitrage.


ATH

(stock market and cryptocurrencies trading) Initialism of all-time high, referring to the value of an asset.


SFYL

Heard you invested in Ethereum just before it hit its ATH last December. SFYL.

(Internet slang, trading) Initialism of sorry for your loss, commonly said in response to someone being scammed or losing money from a risky investment. It originated from the phrase "sorry for your loss", usually addressed to people mourning loved ones and is mostly used in finance in a sarcastic way.


foreign trade

(business, trading) Trade that is conducted between a nation and other nations.

zahraniční obchod

trade between a country and other countries


sell order

(finance, trading) A request that a broker sell a quantity of a particular type of stock, bond, or other financial security.


invisible trade

en-noun

invisible trade (countable and uncountable, plural invisible trades)

Coordinate term: visible trade

(business, trading, finance) An international transaction not involving tangible goods, but services; the import and export of such services between nations.


coasting trade

coasting trade (countable and uncountable, plural coasting trades)

(business, trading) The business of transporting goods along the same coast.


trade barrier

(economics, business, trading) A government-induced restriction on international trade.


visible trade

visible trade (countable and uncountable, plural visible trades)

Coordinate term: invisible trade

(business, trading, finance) An international transaction involving tangible goods, but not services; the import and export of such goods between nations.


trade term

(business, trading) A type of detail relating to prices and quotas in an agreement between nations trading with each other.


freedom of trade

freedom of trade (usually uncountable, plural freedoms of trade)

(business, trading) The ability of individuals and businesses to engage in commerce across borders without any restrictions.


time order

(finance, trading) An order that changes its form after a certain time period, by becoming either a market or a limited price order, or is cancelled altogether.


expiration time

expiration time (countable and uncountable, plural expiration times)

(finance, trading) The moment when an option becomes void and can no longer be used, occurring on the third Saturday of the expiration month.


time trade

(finance, trading) The act of selling or buying a financial instrument based on the time at which the trade occurs, such as buying short.


reverse of trade

reverse of trade (plural reverses of trade)

In the commencement of the winter, by a sudden reverse of trade, more than 20,000 weavers in the liberty were thrown out of employment.

1830, Lancet Publications (publisher), The Lancet, page 574:

How frequently is it not the case, that private Banks in districts where capital is redundant, invest in mortgages and dead loans, and trade upon circulation? which on any reverse of trade or convulsion in credit, they are unable to redeem

1837, H. Leggatt and Company (publisher), John Horsley Palmer, Esq.'s Pamphlet on " The Causes and Consequences of the Pressure Upon the Money Market" Considered To which are Added, a Few Remarks Upon the Establishement of Joint Stock Banks ..., page 20:

whenever there comes a reverse of trade in those parishes (though very possibly there is not a single person connected with the railway residing in the parish, or who can get a settlement in the parish)

1850, Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons, Reports from Committees, Volume 16, page 96:

(business, economics, trading) A downturn or disruption of economic conditions rendering much trade unprofitable.


trade standard

In this, the IOOC cooperated with the Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission to develop the Codex standard for table olives, as well as producing its own trade standard, the Unified Quality Standard Applying to Table Olives in International Trade.

1997, A. Garrido Fernandez, M.J. Fernandez-Diez, M.R. Adams, Table Olives - Production and Processing, page 47:

(business, economics, trading) A commonly agreed upon description of an expected quality of a product.


recovery moment

recovery moment (plural recovery moments)

(business, trading) Synonym of rally (“a recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)”)