buy the dip

Definitions

To purchase a financial asset after its market value drops.

slang

Examples

“Many traders are told to “buy⟳ the dip and sell⟳ the pullback” but not exactly when to execute this. It has been left up to the trader to enter⟳ when he or she feels the time is right.”

“During upward-sloping cycles in the Investment Rate, a long bias with proper diversification should result⟳ in positive portfolio returns, without drawn-out setbacks, if investors are willing to buy⟳ the dips, especially the big ones, at all times.”

“This week, BlackRock's Larry Fink noted that sovereign wealth funds had bought the dip by snapping up bitcoin while it traded just above $80,000, in a sign⟳ that parts of the investment community remained bullish even as prices fell to their lowest level in eight months.”

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