Terminology Part 2 Flashcards
Short squeeze
Accelerates a stock’s price as short sellers bail out to cut their losses
Long squeeze
When selling incites further selling, fueling a cycle and a large price drop
Exhaustion
When majority of the traders in a given stock are long or short leaving very few people to support pushing the price in the current direction
Frontside
Your seeing higher lows and higher highs (Long)
Backside
Your seeing lower highs and lower lows (Short)
Fakeout
A stock does a breakout just to return to normal
Volatile Stock
A stock that fluctuates in price
Float
The amount of shares from a company that are available to trade
Float Rotation
The amount of times the volume has surpassed the float within a day
Catalyst
Anything that leads to a drastic change in a stock’s price
Black Swan
An extremely rare event with severe consequences that can’t be predicted
Death candle
A long red candle with volume behind indicating that the stock may be dead