Finance & Stock Slang
Finance and stock-market slang decoded — stonks, tendies, diamond hands and WallStreetBets lingo with real meanings and origins. Properly sourced.
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Operating at a financial loss.
Friendly buyer that swoops in to rescue a company from a hostile bidder.
A discount applied to an asset's value, or a forced loss on a position.
Money; cash.
Money (Northern English).
Traders with the conviction to hold through volatility.
Directionless, back-and-forth price action with no clear trend.
A high-pressure phone-bank operation cold-calling retail to dump dodgy stock.
Being force-liquidated because you can't meet a margin requirement.
Holding a trade for several days or weeks to catch a bigger move.
WSB demand to prove your trade with a screenshot or get removed.
The last hour of trading on options-expiry days, when prices go feral.
A bearish signal when a short moving average crosses below a long one.
A five-dollar or five-pound note.
A hundred-dollar bill.
Rallying cry that retail traders are powerful when they hold as one.
A tendency for stocks, especially small caps, to rise in January.
One hundredth of a percent — the unit finance uses when 'percent' is too clumsy.
Options expiring the same day — maximum-risk lottery tickets.
Implied volatility — the market's expected size of future price swings.
Buying and selling the same security with no real change of ownership, just to fake activity.
Dollars; money.
One million rubles (Russian slang: 'lemon').
Buy a big stake, threaten a takeover, then sell it back to the target at a premium.
Ordinary individual investors, as opposed to big institutions.
A boring, safe, dividend-paying share thought fit for people who can't afford to lose.
Options that profit when a stock's price goes down.
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Money (Russian slang).
Money; a play on 'cheese' and 'cheddar.'
A stable, dividend-paying stock favored by older, cautious investors.
A hundred-dollar bill.
In the money — an option that already has intrinsic value.
Finance TikTok — short-video trading hype and meme trades.
An automatic trading halt triggered by a large market drop.
A sharp price move quickly reversed the other way.
A five-dollar bill.
A price spike forcing short sellers to buy back, driving it higher still.