Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

take out the stops

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English

Syllables
take out the stops
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To carry out the supposed practice whereby locals (floor traders trading for their own account) buy or sell to push prices towards where they suspect stop loss orders lie, with a view to profiting from the resulting acceleration of the move when those orders hit the market.

Inflected Forms

takes out the stops (present, singular) taking out the stops (participle, present) took out the stops (past) taken out the stops (participle, past)

Questions

What does take out the stops mean?
To carry out the supposed practice whereby locals (floor traders trading for their own account) buy or sell to push prices towards where they suspect stop loss orders lie, with a view to profiting from the resulting acceleration of the move when those orders hit the market.

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