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top-ticking

top-ticking is the present participle and gerund of top-tick.

Meaning of top-tick

Verb

top-tick (third-person singular simple present top-ticks, present participle top-ticking, simple past and past participle top-ticked)

  1. 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

Questions about top-ticking

What is top-ticking the present participle and gerund of?
Top-ticking is the present participle and gerund of top-tick.

Words near top-ticking in the dictionary

  1. top-slicing
  2. top-spinner
  3. top-spinners
  4. top-tick
  5. top-ticked
  6. top-ticking
  7. top-ticks
  8. top-tier
  9. top-to-bottom
  10. top-to-bottoms
  11. top-up

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