January Early Warning System

A Quick Glossary of Stock Market Holiday Terms (14:22)

Posted on January 4, 2023 - 9:14am

By Lawrence G. McMillan

This article was originally published in The Option Strategist Newsletter Volume 14, No. 22 on November 23, 2005.

As we enter the holiday season, the media will mix and match terms referring to the various Holiday-related trends of the stock market. They rarely get it straight, and as a result, they wind up confusing a lot of people. Here are the major ones:

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