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crab markets

crab markets is the plural of crab market.

Meaning of crab market

Noun

crab market (plural crab markets)

  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
    • 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...1989, Joseph L. Shaefer, Bringing Home the Gold, Dow Jones-Irwin, →ISBN, page 161
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see crab, market.
    • 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.2014 October 7, Addie K. Martin, Jeremy Martin, Southeast Louisiana Food, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN

Questions about crab markets

What is crab markets the plural of?
Crab markets is the plural of crab market.

Words near crab markets in the dictionary

  1. crab Louie
  2. crab Louies
  3. crab Louis
  4. crab louse
  5. crab market
  6. crab markets
  7. crab meat
  8. crab mentalities
  9. crab mentality
  10. Crab Nebula
  11. crab oil

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