top-tick

present singular third person top-ticks · participle present top-ticking · participle past top-ticked · past top-ticked · alternative top tick

1. businessTo trade (usually, to buy) an asset at its peak, immediately before its price declines.

   Top-ticking may be the talent of Kwasi Kwarteng, the 38-day chancellor behind Britain's 2022 'mini-Budget' and related kerfuffles.

   2026 February 20, Louis Ashworth, “Kwasi Kwarteng is focused, ‘orange pilled’ and ready to start bitcoinmaxxing”, in Financial Times

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   Why not accept that your first buy may not be your last buy and build in the weakness? That way you are never top-ticking, something that's incredibly important if you are going to stay in the game.

   2009 January 6, Jim Cramer, Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 195

   One such example is Time Warner Inc.'s ill-starred merger with AOL, which was announced just in the nick of time to perfectly top-tick the dot-com mania in January 2000.

   2013 April 2, David Stockman, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, Hachette UK, →ISBN

   The Shanghai market began to tank immediately after I sold the Hong Kong shares short. I had top-ticked the market—I was going to make a fortune, right?

   2014 July 8, Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 122