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Locked in

When an investor is unable to take advantage of preferential tax treatment because of time remaining on a required holding period. Also, a commodities position in which the market has a limit up or limit down day and investors are unable to move in to or out of the market.

locked in

To have a large paper, or unrealized, profit in a security position, with the result being that sale of the security would engender substantial taxation.

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