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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