Meaning of crab market | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see crab, market.

Examples

“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.”

“Through the current study⟳ of weekly crab markets, monsoon season was observed to be the most productive season in terms of number⟳ of crabs brought for sale by the crab sellers from the nearby area.”

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