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panic selling

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Panic Selling
High volume selling brought about by sharp price declines.

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The main problem with panic selling is that investors are not evaluating fundamentals. Instead, they are selling on pure emotion.

panic selling
A flurry of selling in a particular security or in securities as a whole. Panic selling is accompanied by particularly heavy volume and sharp price declines as owners scramble to sell before prices drop even more. Panic selling is generally set off by an unexpected event viewed by traders as particularly negative. For example, uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of serious hostilities and a cutoff of oil supplies in the Middle East might be sufficient to cause panic selling.


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