Glossary of Some Trading Words

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. PREFACE Five Times a Day? ix
4. 1 Whooshing Up 1
5. 2 Everything Is Down Again 15
6. 3 The Greatest Trader in the World 36
7. 4 On Markets: Rallies and Flows 51
8. 5 Eternal Optimizers 64
9. 6 A Nice Chianti for Our Trading Partner, the Target Bomber 79
10. 7 They Don’t Tell You That There’s No Price 96
11. 8 Why Would You Buy an Electric Car on Jet Ski Friday? 113
12. 9 The Economy Will Be Open by Easter 127
13. Acknowledgments 137
14. APPENDIX A Note-Taking Summary 141
15. APPENDIX B Profanity Distribution 143
16. APPENDIX C AlgoFinance Project Informants 147
17. APPENDIX D How Exchange Professionals Use the Word Market 159
18. APPENDIX E How Quants Use the Word Stem Algo 165
19. Glossary of Some Trading Words 173
20. Notes 183
21. References 195
22. Index 205