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The US dollar and Swiss franc currency pairing. But it was probably named this because ninjas are associated with Japan. We’d like to say that this name is a clever comment on the pair’s volatility and sudden, unforeseen market movements. Ninja is the name for the US dollar and Japanese yen currency pair. Presumably, it’s not supposed to sound like forex trading for pirates, but play on the fact that Australians call everyone ‘mate’ This is because the loon, a native Canadian bird, is the symbol on the one CAD coinĪnother nickname for the AUD/USD currency pair. The forex trading nickname for the Canadian dollar/US dollar currency pair. Or should we say ‘Ruble’, as this is the nickname for the Euro/Ruble currency pair So named because ‘Ruble’ looks like ‘Rubble’, the surname of Fred Flinstone’s best friend BarneyĬan’t have Barney Rubble without his wife, Betty Rubble. The nickname for the US dollar and Russian Ruble currency pair. However, whether dead cats do indeed bounce or not is an answer most analysts won’t admit to testing.

Like its name poetically suggests, the dead cat bounce refers to the last gap rallying movement of a ‘dead market, when a stock’s price rises from depression briefly, only to fall again. Famous black swans include the bursting of the dot com bubble in the 90s and the 2008 global financial crisis.įind out what makes an event a black swan The dead cat bounce Black swans are as significant as they are startling and must have a huge impact (often negative) on the market. The expression, so named after the old saying that, theoretically, black swans must exist although only white ones were ever seen (clearly, the author of this phrase didn’t travel widely). Black swansĪ term that has become more well known since Brexit, black swans refer a completely unforeseen and unexpected stance. Lamar was jailed repeatedly, including for impersonating a congressman. Although many assume it was coined for Jordan Belfort, the real-life wolf that DiCaprio portrays, there’s evidence of the term being used almost a century earlier to describe diamond cane-brandishing braggart David Lamar.

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Not only a movie in which Leonardo DiCaprio again eluded the Oscar, wolves of Wall Street refers to stock market wunderkinds famous for unscrupulous success on Wall Street. Likewise, a bearish trader or investor is pessimistic, where bullish ones have positive sentiments about a market.įind out more about bearish trading Wolves of Wall Street The antithesis to a bull market is a bear one, which is a depressed and/or downward-trending market. Some believe that bull markets got their name from the way bull’s toss their foes and spike their horns upwards, but there’s no real proof of this.įind out more about bullish trading Bears Bulls used to specifically refer to an upward trending market, a cycle of growth, but can now also mean an optimistic speculator, often going long.

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