The meaning of sedan chair and lifting sedan chair

The predecessor of the stock market originated in 1602 when the Dutch bought and sold shares of the Dutch East India Company on the Amsterdam Bridge, while the formal stock market first appeared in the United States, where speculators and investors were both active. It is also a thermometer of economic and financial activities in a country or region, and there are many terms in the stock market. Let's take a look at the meaning of sedan chair and sedan chair.

What do you mean by sedan chair?

Sedan chair is a kind of speculative trading behavior that drives up and manipulates the stock price in the stock market. Speculators are expected to announce positive or negative information, and the stock price will rise and fall, so speculators buy or sell stocks immediately. When the information is released, people rush to buy or sell, causing the stock price to rise and fall sharply, and then speculators sell or buy the stock in order to make a big profit. First buy and then sell as "sitting on a long sedan chair", first sell and then buy is called "sitting on a short sedan chair".

What does it mean to lift the sedan chair?

Lifting the sedan chair refers to the behavior that speculators expect the stock price to rise and fall greatly and buy or sell the stock immediately, but the profit is often limited and even the situation is often tied up. Generally speaking, the behavior of buying stocks with multi-profit information is called lifting long sedan chairs, and the behavior of selling stocks with short information is called short sedan chairs.

What are the common terms in the stock market?

1. Rights issue: when a company issues new shares, it shall be allocated to shareholders for subscription at a special price (lower than the market price) according to the number of shareholders' participation.

2. Retail investors: small investors who buy and sell a small number of stocks.

3. Manipulator: drive up the stock market by speculation, sell the stock by improper methods, and then try to lower the market and make up for it at a low price, or buy it at a low price and sell it at a high price.

4. Foodie: the artisan secretly buys stocks at a low price called foodie.

5. Shipping: the seller quietly sells the stock at a high price, which is called shipping.

6. Pressure: the act of driving down the stock price by improper means is called habitual pressure.

7. Bottoming: bottoming refers to the operating strategy in which a stock price falls to its lowest point by a certain valuation index, especially when it falls sharply in a short period of time and is expected to rebound soon.

8. Bears: although the current stock price is relatively high, investors are not optimistic about the future of the stock market and expect the stock price to fall, so they sell the stock at a relatively high price and buy it when the stock falls to a certain price, in order to get a differential return.