crab market
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A market trend where a stock keeps fluctuating around the same price over a longer period of time, neither entering a bull market nor a bear market
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see crab, market.
Example Sentences
- "Writing covered options is a technique to use when we're not in a bull market or a bear market, but a crab market. (I call any market that moves sideways for any length of time a crab market. This is not simply because crabs move sideways, but because people, deprived of their daily dose of market action, tend to get pretty crabby during these periods.)"
- "There could be an extended "crab" market: the index stays pretty much flat for long enough that the fundamentals eventually catch up. It has happened before."
- "A crab market moves sideways. (This could go on forever. Anyone for tuna?)"
- "A 'crab' market is when the market just traverses sideways, oscillating in a channel, between an imaginary 'floor' level and an imaginary 'ceiling' level."
- "A crab market is defined here as a market where the difference between the close and open prices is not greater than ±5 % of the open price."
- "Overall, the crab industry is faring well right now. The higher price of shrimp actually is a good thing for the crab market because crab is a higher-priced, premium item."
Etymology
From the movement of a crab, which appears to move sideways and seems to be going neither forward (a bull market, in this metaphor) or backward (a bear market).