Master List of Stock Market Clichés
Buy the dip / BTD
Sell the rip / STR
Don't catch a falling knife
Cliff diving
Bottom fishing
Don't be a hero
Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when
others are greedy
Pigs get slaughtered
Bull trap
Bear trap
Dead cat bounce
Capitulation
Bubble
Bounce
Melt-up
Short squeeze
"Boom"
"Weeeee"
Blow-off top
Topping process
Bottoming process
Pain trade
Don't tell my wife
Stairs up, elevator down
The market fluctuates
VIX smash
Taking out the stops
Ten bagger
V bottom
W bottom
Face ripper
Don't lose your shirt
Buy the rumor, sell the news
Widow Maker
Dead money
Momentum precedes price
Wants higher
.... And it's gone
A rising tide lifts all boats
Plan your trade, trade your plan
Buy strength, sell weakness
Timber
Missed the whisper number
Low-risk, high-reward setup
High-probability setup
Tight stops
Lotto trade / lotto play
YOLO
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Holding the bag / bag holder
Honor / respect your stops
Stick save
Yellen put
Don't fight the Fed
Turnaround Tuesday
Merger Monday
Market makers / MM
OpEx pin
Contrarian
Smart money
Dumb money
Permabull
Permabear
The trend is your friend
Don't fight the tape
Chasing / late to the party
Fill the gap / gap fill / all gaps get filled
Gap and go
Fade the gap
Gap and crap
Pop and drop
Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller
Buy when there's blood in the streets
We're killing it in the chat room today
Drop this pig
Waterfall
Don't trade it, own it
Wall Street casino
Hopium
I'm not wrong, I'm just early
The market can remain irrational longer than you can
remain solvent
Orphan stock
The bigger the base, the higher in space
The broader the top, the bigger the drop
Honey badger
Trade what you see, not what you want
FANG
Constructive
Buy low, sell high
Sucker's rally
Averaging down
Winter is coming
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Sell in May and go away
Theta burn
Revenge trading
Boredom trading
Momo
Spoos
Brexit
$STUDY
BUY MOAR STAWKS
Pump and dump
Paid pumper
You can't time the market
Never short a dull market
Chop / choppy
Pick a direction already
Critical level
Key support / resistance level
Look out below
Dry powder
It's all just noise
To the moon
Sit on hands
Manipulation
Market is irrational
Profit taking
Taking some off the top
Power hour
"BLOCKED" (after blocking someone on a
message board and they can't read your message)
Follow the big boys
Uh oh / "rut-roh" (Scooby Doo voice)
Let the trade come to you
One day does not make a trend
Don't marry a stock / position
I told you so / It was so obvious (said after the
fact)
Rug pull
Back up the truck
It's not a loss until you sell
Hope is not a strategy / prayer is not a strategy
All-time highs / ATH
High of the day / HOD
Low of the day / LOD
Breakout / breakdown
Flight to safety
Only price pays
Let your winners run / cut your losers short
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