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Trading Slang and Expressions

  • Babysitting:

    Wow, you sure have been babysitting that trade for awhile! - This means that you are holding a losing trade for a long time, hoping the price will increase enough so you can get out of the trade with an even balance.

  • Buying Power:

    If that trader gets slammed again, his buying power will dwindle down to nothing! - The total of a trader's equity and all available margin.

  • Crunching:

    Hey, watch that stock, it's crunching through the price level. - This happens when the support of a stock seems non-existent, and the price starts to fall rather quickly.

  • Investor:

    When you dare to hold the position overnight. - Hey, the market closing in a few minutes, are you going to sell that stock, or become an investor?"

  • Jigged Out:

    I can't believe it! I got jigged out on a trade today! - When you're in a trade, and the market briefly turns around, usually fairly quickly, and you get swindled into closing out the trade.

  • Learning Curve:

    That trader hasn't figured out the learning curve yet. - However long it takes you to figure out the rules of the game, and become a profitable trader.

  • Melting:

    I melted my account today trading IBM - Taking large losses in a short amount of time. This loss is so large that the trader cannot continue to trade anymore.

  • Nut:

    My trades today didn't even cover my nut. - A nut is the total cost of commissions on your trades.

  • Printing on the "O":

    Wow, that stock's running, it's printing on the "O"! - When the trade price is wither below the Inside Bid price or higher than the Inside Ask price. "Overriding" prices indicate tremendous urgency to either buy or sell that stock.

  • Scalper:

    I wish I could be a great scalper, like him. - A scalper is a high volume trader who is looking for small winners. An example is someone who trades 1,000 shares, and is only looking for 1/4 point or less.

  • Slippage:

    I hate the slippage in SOES orders. - Market orders that get filled at disadvantageous higher or lower prices.

  • Squiggly Lines:

    That trader uses a lot of squiggly lines on his chart. - Technical indicators that traders use on their charts to assist in trading.

  • Stick:

    I bought IBM and it ran up three sticks. - A full point (or dollar).

  • Tanking:

    Get out of your trade, the market's tanking! - Used to describe the market when it takes a sharp turn for the worst.

  • Whacked:

    I got whacked on that trade. - A swift, sharp trade that goes against the trader.


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