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WallStreetBets Slang

WallStreetBets slang decoded — apes, tendies, diamond hands, YOLO and meme-stock lingo with real meanings. Properly sourced.

175 words

DFV 18+
proper noun

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spondulicks
noun

Money; cash.

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brass
noun

Money (Northern English).

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strong hands
noun

Traders with the conviction to hold through volatility.

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chop
noun

Directionless, back-and-forth price action with no clear trend.

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marge called
phrase

Being force-liquidated because you can't meet a margin requirement.

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swinging
verb

Holding a trade for several days or weeks to catch a bigger move.

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position or ban
phrase

WSB demand to prove your trade with a screenshot or get removed.

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death cross
noun

A bearish signal when a short moving average crosses below a long one.

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fiver
noun

A five-dollar or five-pound note.

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blue face
noun

A hundred-dollar bill.

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apes together strong
phrase

Rallying cry that retail traders are powerful when they hold as one.

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January effect
noun

A tendency for stocks, especially small caps, to rise in January.

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0DTE
noun

Options expiring the same day — maximum-risk lottery tickets.

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IV
noun

Implied volatility — the market's expected size of future price swings.

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clams
noun

Dollars; money.

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limon
noun

One million rubles (Russian slang: 'lemon').

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retail
noun

Ordinary individual investors, as opposed to big institutions.

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puts
noun

Options that profit when a stock's price goes down.

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FD 18+
noun

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babki
noun

Money (Russian slang).

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gouda
noun

Money; a play on 'cheese' and 'cheddar.'

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boomer stock
noun

A stable, dividend-paying stock favored by older, cautious investors.

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benji
noun

A hundred-dollar bill.

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ITM
adjective

In the money — an option that already has intrinsic value.

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fintok
noun

Finance TikTok — short-video trading hype and meme trades.

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circuit breaker
noun

An automatic trading halt triggered by a large market drop.

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whipsaw
noun

A sharp price move quickly reversed the other way.

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finnif
noun

A five-dollar bill.

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short squeeze
noun

A price spike forcing short sellers to buy back, driving it higher still.

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wad
noun

A thick bundle of banknotes.

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chase the bag
phrase

To aggressively pursue money or success.

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eating crayons
phrase

Self-mocking joke that WSB traders are dumb enough to eat crayons.

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simoleons
noun

Dollars; money.

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biscuits
noun

Money.

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buy high, sell low
phrase

Ironic WSB motto mocking their own money-losing instincts.

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franklins
noun

Hundred-dollar bills.

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jackson
noun

A twenty-dollar bill.

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phrase

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bull trap
noun

A fake rally that lures buyers in right before a sharp drop.

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