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It's not. It's trading lingo. If the pricing was on a downturn "losses", then an upward move is a correction.



Except that in practice nobody says that. I've worked with both large financial institutions and tiny hedge funds going back nearly 30 years, traders are cognitive bias on legs. There's a reason Wall Street has a statue of a giant bull but not of a bear.




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