
- Wallstreetbets lingo guide how to#
- Wallstreetbets lingo guide full#
Most of it has been in the hands of the WallStreetBets crowd, and it’s really easy to get overwhelmed with what exactly these folks are saying on the WallStreetBets forum. There has been insane volatility and volume on stocks like GME, AMC, BB, and then recently Silver. The Boomers, The Gen X, & well, basically everybody above 40.
I wanted to do a special episode today that’s for us, the older people. The purpose of these articles is to show you the trading strategies and tools that I personally use to trade my own account so that you can grow your own account systematically. They start trading and realize it doesn’t work this way. I often see people who start trading and expect their accounts to explode, based on promises and hype they see in ads and e-mails.
$ROPE – Inevitable losses from these frothy markets.I’m Markus Heitkoetter and I’ve been an active trader for over 20 years. “Sir, this is a casino” – Clearly the right way to look at this. u/DeepFuckingValue (DFV) – Legend that YOLO’d and turned $50k to $40mil+ off of $GME. Gain/Loss porn – Posting positions and seeing some ridiculous bets. Gay bears (rainbow and bear emojis) – Referring to those making moves that are hoping the market falls. KYS – Keep Yourself Safe – take your money off the table. Usually at the end of a post that shills a stock. “Literally can’t go tits up” – Sarcastically egging on the crowd. “Your wife’s bf” – Often a topic to poke at posters who spend too much time on stocks that their wives get bfs. “This is the way” – Threads of agreement to trades or positions. Hold the line – “hodl” as Hold On for Dear Life – Asking people to not sell and believe in the long term growth. Buy the dip – Said during stock pull backs to add larger positions instead or selling. Stonks only go up – Because of the money printer, but also in jest that the bull market is standard. Money printer go brrrrr – FED printing money and floating repos and stocks. Two/Three comma club – Millionaires and billionaires – More recently, people have bragged their positions entering the 2 comma club while $GME has made some three comma people cry. “I like this stock” – Another random comment that makes me think it’s bot-related, but it’s a buying indicator sentiment. “This guy fucks” – No idea how this started, but just a term of endearment for OP (Original Poster). “Fuck it, I’m in” – Common comment that is likely a bot, but somewhat convincing of an unconvincing argument. DD – Due Diligence – There’s surprisingly some well researched posts in the midst of an avalanche of inappropriate jokes. Bagholders – People with large positions on the stock. To the moon / Rocket (rocket and moon emoji) – When a stonk rockets up in price. Paper hands (toilet paper and hands up emojis) – Weak hands selling (hopefully for a profit) and retrospectively after a larger gain was possible. Unclear what the exit strategy is for this. Diamond hands (diamond and hands up emojis) – Never selling and keep holding. It’s been used overall as just general gains after withdrawing from the market. Tendies – Small gains from trading that you can cash out to go to McDonalds to buy some chicken tenders. Wallstreetbets lingo guide full#
Full Retard – Usually self-referential term in a post where you’ve shown your YOLO positions.YOLO / yeet – “You Only Live Once” style trading without any need for diversification to put life savings into one trading play.Degenerates – Embracing the self-deprecating terms for the hoard.Apes / Monkey (gorilla emoji) / “Apes together strong” – For those less comfortable with using autists, have referred to the community of apes as lowly retail investors.Autists – Not meant to be offensive, but everyone in the group accepts the description.Stonks – I guess you can’t be giving investment advice if it’s just for stonks.Also also, a lot of these terms are also used in reddit more broadly and crypto.
Wallstreetbets lingo guide how to#
Also, I don’t know how to do emojis here. Note: Apologies for profanity, but this is just how people trash talk on the channel. Who would have thought that meme stocks would be more profitable than real fundamental analysis? Hopefully markets go back to a steady state, but until then I’m expecting some volatility in the coming weeks. The group doesn’t really take itself that seriously, so there was a clear distinction that it was totally not trading advice (plus most of it was terrible outlandish advice). If you read enough of the threads, you start to catch onto the common lingo. I joined WSB a few years ago for pure entertainment and sometimes pretty good due diligence. Reminded me of the WSB guy Why this List? Random Observation/Comment #697: Today’s trading is basically gambling.