Definition of whipsawed in English English dictionary
In volatile price swings, the act of making losing trades as prices rise and fall Traders are whipsawed if they buy just before prices fall and sell just before prices rise Technicians also use this term to refer to misleading indicators in chart trends of a security or a market
losing potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises
Buying stocks just before prices fall and selling stocks just before prices rise in a volatile market often due to misleading signals
Buying stocks just before prices fall and selling stocks just before prices rise in a volatile market, often as the result of misleading signals
Term for where a trader takes a position, then has to move against it triggering stop loss limits and liquidation of positions, then having to move in the original direction Normally occurs in volatile markets
To defeat in, or cause to lose, two different bets at the same turn or in one play, as a player at faro who has made two bets at the same time, one that a card will lose and another that a different card will win; hence, to defeat in spite of every effort