#trading
37 words tagged “trading”
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.
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.
The position you keep running after taking your original money out.
The tiered ring on an exchange floor where open-outcry traders work.
Slow steady erosion of P&L, premium or capital.
A worthless or low-quality crypto token with no real use case.
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.
Due diligence — a long WSB research post on why a stock will rip.
WSB self-deprecating bit casting yourself as the cuck loser-husband.
Buy in fast and hard without doing the homework.
Buying low and selling high on items to turn a profit — merchanting.
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.
Try to buy an asset mid-plunge and hope you don't get sliced.
Immediate-or-cancel — fill whatever you can right now, kill the rest.
The retail buyers smart money dumps their bags on.
A brief, deceptive price rebound inside a much bigger downtrend.
WSB self-tag for an obsessively deep-dive trader.
Trading profits, imagined as a reward of chicken tenders.
Fill-or-kill — execute the whole order right now or cancel it instantly.
Pooled investment fund that uses leverage, shorting, and exotic strategies to chase absolute returns.
All-or-none order — fill the whole thing or don't fill any of it.
A stock pumped by internet hype instead of fundamentals.
A typo on the trading keyboard that fires off the wrong size, price or ticker.
JPMorgan trader Bruno Iksil, whose oversized CDS book blew up for over $6bn.
A sustained run of rising prices.