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top-tick

verb

Definitions

  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.
    • 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.
    • The Shanghai market began to tank immediately after I sold the Hong Kong shares short. I had top-ticked the market—I was going to make a fortune, right?

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