Most annoying word in trading...

[TA Jedi]

... is "amid." I am so sick and tired of seeing this word in every bloody financial news release. Prices never just move. They always move "amid" something! Amid concerns. Amid speculation. Amid worries. Amid credit crisis. Amid get your head out of your ass and expand your friggin' vocabulary! I get pissed, goddamnit!

/rant off

 

[zambuck]

.....What word would you use instead...?

....Just curious as you probably have list of words you would prefer...!

 

[tune]

My candidate is rant.

 

[nine]

They probably should use "because of" but they can't because they don't know what's really happening. They use amid because it implies "because of" without actually saying it -- how to make a talking head sound intelligent.

 

[0007]

"Loss"

 

[DaxDestroyer]

Slippage, Comission, triggered stop, partial fill, CNBC, Bernanke

Your choice

 

[dick_dastardly]

Cable !





dd

 

[shadowninja]

"Gambling". Usually in the following context, "Playing on the stockmarket is just gambling."

 

[tornhill]

"carry trade"

it´s strange that every newspaper article has to explain it again from the scratch.

 

[tomorton]

'amid' gets my vote too, I was also thinking this myself only this week. The journalists who have to compile market reports use this scam to imply a reason for an index fall or rise, implying the market moved for fundamental reasons which it takes a journalist with much experience (and hefty expense account?) to uncover. Whereas most of us traders probably believe so many market moves are technical (and US-driven) and nothing to do with the latest Christmas trading statement from this or that FTSE250 minnow, even if their high street name catches attention in the headline.

 

[Crap Buddist]

wuuuua wuuaa "Profit Taking" yaaaaaaaaaaaargggssppphhhhGGHHHH. yak. Thats better room for a few more beers now.

 

[shadowninja]

Just to wind up the "amid" haters.

Amid a crash in the global number of pirates, we see the rise in global temperature.

:innocent:

 

[TA Jedi]

Just to wind up the "amid" haters.

Amid a crash in the global number of pirates, we see the rise in global temperature.

:innocent:

Are the pirate and ninja indexes correlated, shadowninja?

 

[tomorton]

Exactly.

 

[shadowninja]

Are the pirate and ninja indexes correlated, shadowninja?

In internet speak, ninjas pwn pirates. Does that help?

 

[TA Jedi]

In internet speak, ninjas pwn pirates. Does that help?

So you could also say that the pirate index skidded to new lows "amid" concerns about increased ninja activity?

 

[zambuck]

.....so 'amid this discussion you have warmed up to word 'amid'...!!

 

[foredog]

Amid all this...

Algo trading, "they algo traded up"

 

[tornhill]

oh, i forgot one: "Holy Grail".
should be forbidden.

 

[mp6140]

I cannot tell if you are new to the international money markets or not, but there are some very definite words that must be avoided at all costs --- Ahmid Leybonier, almost unknown in the retail world of finance, conrols the ear of the prince of saudi arabia (who we know controls most everything else !) and his name is NOT to be bandied about in the manner of waving an old, used up greenback !

Hopefully, he will not learn of your transgression and the anger you voice concerning his name which translates into the english "wanderer of the desert and seeker of retribution for the infidel and holy combined while preventing camel dung from entering the city" and is obviously a highly important name entitling him to many wives !

be careful young skywalker for your parantage has not yet been established !

oh yeah, any one pick "going forward !"

mp

... is "amid." I am so sick and tired of seeing this word in every bloody financial news release. Prices never just move. They always move "amid" something! Amid concerns. Amid speculation. Amid worries. Amid credit crisis. Amid get your head out of your ass and expand your friggin' vocabulary! I get pissed, goddamnit!

/rant off