Bottom

Refers to the base support level for market prices of any type. Also used in the context of securities to refer to the lowest market price of a security during a specific time-frame.

Market Bottom

The lowest level of support in price for a security, index, or market over a given time frame. The security, index, or market is highly unlikely to go below the bottom; if it does so, it may cause panic selling. During a prolonged bear market, when a market is dropping more or less continuously for a long time, investors often question when the market will find bottom, which means that they wish to know when the market will begin to rise again, or at least stabilize.

bottom

The lowest price to which a stock, market index, or another asset will sink. Compare top.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor by David L. Scott. Copyright © 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. All rights reserved.

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But, as I was looking over the surface, I saw here and there at a distance a faint glimmer, as if some skater insects which had escaped the frosts might be collected there, or, perchance, the surface, being so smooth, betrayed where a spring welled up from the bottom. Paddling gently to one of these places, I was surprised to find myself surrounded by myriads of small perch, about five inches long, of a rich bronze color in the green water, sporting there, and constantly rising to the surface and dimpling it, sometimes leaving bubbles on it.

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The reception commemorated Bottom Line's five years of guiding low-income, first-generation Worcester high school seniors and college students to and through college.

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Their safest campaign under him was his first when they spent only 26 games in the bottom six.

Roberto knows it's a foot slog

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On the other hand, proponents of globalization and global trade believe that millions of people at the bottom in the developing and underdeveloped world have been lifted as nations open up their markets and implement the so-called Washington Consensus; that is, a laundry list of prerequisites a nation state must follow to qualify for World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans.

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4, the entire CP system shall become inoperative if--due to the movement of the bottom plate during loading/ unloading of tank storage contents or due to non-uniform sagging/settlement of tank foundation --there is any physical contact or electrical short circuit between the mixed metal oxide mesh ribbon anode/conductor bar and the tank bottom plate at any location.

CP system arrangement prevents soil-side corrosion on tank bottoms

The leakage in the outer bottom requires the partial removal of the inside bottom.

Acoustic emission method for solving problems in double-bottom storage tanks

While 71 per cent of Scots women hate their bum, a staggering 52 per cent refuse to even look at their bottom in the mirror and more than half wish it was smaller.

The bottom line; Most women hate their behinds, according to a survey.. but experts agree they should be happy with the curvy look

The Espace was bottom of the list, with the Laguna bottom but one, and the Scenic four off the bottom.

French cars lose va-voom