top-tick
top-tick verb: to trade (usually, to buy) an asset at its peak, immediately before its price declines.
Verb
top-tick (third-person singular simple present top-ticks, present participle top-ticking, simple past and past participle top-ticked)
- To trade (usually, to buy) an asset at its peak, immediately before its price declines.
- Why not accept that your first buy may not be your last buy and build in the weakness? That way you are never top-ticking, something that's incredibly important if you are going to stay in the game.2009 January 6, Jim Cramer, Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 195
- One such example is Time Warner Inc.'s ill-starred merger with AOL, which was announced just in the nick of time to perfectly top-tick the dot-com mania in January 2000.2013 April 2, David Stockman, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, Hachette UK, →ISBN
Examples of top-tick in a sentence
- I had top-ticked the market—I was going to make a fortune, right?2014 July 8, Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page...
- Top-ticking may be the talent of Kwasi Kwarteng, the 38-day chancellor behind Britain's 2022 'mini-Budget' and related kerfuffles.2026 February 20, Louis Ashworth, “Kwasi Kwarteng is focused, ‘orange pilled’ and ready to start bitcoinmaxxing”, in Financial Times:
Forms of top-tick
| third-person singular present | top-ticks |
|---|---|
| present participle | top-ticking |
| past participle | top-ticked |
| past | top-ticked |
| alternative form | top tick |
Questions about top-tick
- What does top-tick mean?
- Top-tick means to trade (usually, to buy) an asset at its peak, immediately before its price declines.
- How do you use top-tick in a sentence?
- I had top-ticked the market—I was going to make a fortune, right?
- What part of speech is top-tick?
- Top-tick is a verb.
- What is the past tense of top-tick?
- The past tense of top-tick is top-ticked.
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