A fuller guide to this term is on the way. In the meantime, the related terms below explain the ideas around it.
Related Brickyard terms
- Bear MarketA period when investment prices fall 20 percent or more from recent highs and confidence tends to be low.
- Bull MarketA stretch when investment prices are rising over time and investor confidence tends to be high.
- VolatilityHow sharply and often an investment's price swings up and down over a given period.
- Market CycleThe recurring pattern of markets rising and falling over time through periods of growth and decline.
- PullbackA short, modest drop in an investment's price during an otherwise rising trend.
- Stock MarketThe network of exchanges where shares of public companies are bought and sold by investors.
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