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buy the dips

buy the dips is the alternative form of buy the dip.

Meaning of buy the dip

Verb

buy the dip (third-person singular simple present buys the dip, present participle buying the dip, simple past and past participle bought the dip)

  1. (slang) To purchase a financial asset after its market value drops.
    • 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.2009, Ken Wood, Trade the Patterns: The Revolutionary Way of Trading the CCI, Traders Press, →ISBN, page 31

Forms of buy the dips

third-person singular presentbuys the dips
present participlebuying the dips
past participlebought the dips
pastbought the dips

Questions about buy the dips

What is buy the dips the alternative form of?
Buy the dips is the alternative form of buy the dip.

Words near buy the dips in the dictionary

  1. buy stop order
  2. buy stop orders
  3. buy straw hats in winter
  4. buy the big one
  5. buy the dip
  6. buy the dips
  7. buy the farm
  8. buy the rabbit
  9. buy the rack
  10. buy the rights
  11. buy the rumor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buy the dips (page history and authors); buy the dip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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