#trading

A sharp, violent price crash.

Rising almost vertically, like the steep arm of a parabola.

A discount applied to an asset's value, or a forced loss on a position.

Dumping your entire account into one position. You only live once.

Buying low and selling high fast on the Grand Exchange for quick profit.

Buy the f***ing dip — aggressive instruction to buy on price drops.

The gap between a trade's expected and executed price.

WSB insult for anyone shorting or betting on a stock falling.

Mature content — open to view.

Meme misspelling of 'stocks,' used whenever the market makes no sense.

Pit trading by shouting and hand signals.

Meme-stock basket: BlackBerry, AMC, Nokia, GameStop.

All-time high — the highest price an asset has ever reached.

The position you keep running after taking your original money out.

The tiered ring on an exchange floor where open-outcry traders work.

Meme spelling of 'pump'; a price surge.

Slow steady erosion of P&L, premium or capital.

An event expected to move a stock's price sharply.

Nervous holders who sell easily under pressure.

Decentralised exchange — peer-to-peer trading via smart contracts.

A worthless or low-quality crypto token with no real use case.

Grabbing underpriced or newly listed NFTs before anyone else.

Selling a client a product that craters and ruins them.

Bond traders' bluffing game played with the serial numbers on dollar bills.

A position a trader badly wants done, pushed onto sales to shift to clients.

Maximal extractable value — profit from reordering transactions.

Due diligence — a long WSB research post on why a stock will rip.

Centralised exchange — a custodial trading platform like Binance.

All-time low — the lowest price an asset has ever reached.

WSB self-deprecating bit casting yourself as the cuck loser-husband.

Buy in fast and hard without doing the homework.

Buying up many of the cheapest NFTs in a collection at once.

Past tense of ape — bought in hard on impulse

Buying low and selling high on items to turn a profit — merchanting.

The resale market after an NFT's initial mint.

Bracketing a victim's trade with a buy before and sell after.

Your holdings — heavy if they're losing, fat if they're winning.

Buy a security in massive size because the price is too good to pass up.

Lottery-ticket bet on an obscure coin going 100x.

An out-of-nowhere headline that jolts the market mid-session.