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Bearish

Words used to describe investor attitude. A bearish investor believes that a particular asset or the market as a whole will decline in value.

Bearish

Describing a market for one or more securities in which there are few buyers and many sellers. A bearish market occurs due to declining prices, and it is sometimes associated with high trading volume. Investors may also describe having a bearish feeling about a market, meaning they believe (not necessarily with any analysis) that prices have been declining or soon will begin to do so.

bearish

Of or relating to the belief that a particular stock or the market as a whole is headed for a period of generally falling prices. Compare bullish.

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Specifically, our Intraday Volume Explosion List reveals that more than 5,500 of these bearishly oriented contracts have changed hands so far, outpacing the stock's average daily put volume by more than eight to one.

Schaeffer's Options Update: BJ Services Company Flooded by Put Volume

KUWAIT, Feb 9 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) closed last week's trading bearishly after gains posted by the benchmark during the past 10 weeks, Al-Oula Financial Brokerage Company said in a report, released on Saturday.

Investors'' jitters cause lackluster atmosphere at KSE

NYSE: BBY), as traders on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) bought to open 2,672 of these bearishly oriented contracts during the course of Wednesday's session.

Schaeffer's Option Activity Alert: Bearish Bets Build on Best Buy Co., Inc. Ahead of Earnings

The market performed bearishly throughout Sunday's session.

KSE price index posts limited gain

Some 17,200 of these bearishly oriented contracts have changed hands so far today, placing the stock on our Intraday Volume Explosion List.

Schaeffer's Options Update: Nokia Corp. Targeted by a Modified Long Put Spread

This bearishly skewed ratio echoes the equity's 10-day ISE put/call volume ratio of 1.

Schaeffer's Option Activity Alert: Bearish Bets Could Provide a Floor for JPMorgan Chase & Co

KUWAIT, June 10 (KUNA) -- Gulf stock markets performed in a "tragic manner" in May and closed the month bearishly, according to a report released by Global Investment House.

Gulf stock markets bearish, forecast to remain so in summer -- report

In other words, short-term options traders have been more bearishly biased toward the equity less than a third of the time during the past year.

Schaeffer's Option Blog: Allergan, Inc. (AGN) Attacked by Bears on Botox Bulletin, Earnings

KUWAIT, Feb 4 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended the past week trading with a record of four bullish sessions but closed bearishly, Al-Wasata Securities Company said in a report released on Saturday.

Corporate positive reports boost KSE trading

Puts are also more popular than usual; about 13,600 of these bearishly oriented contracts changed hands by midday, compared to DNDN's average daily put trading volume of 3,948 contracts.

Schaeffer's Market Blog: Call Volume Surges on Dendreon Corporation Amid Stock's Rally

The weighted index, after starting the day's session bearishly, joined the

KSE benchmark maintains upward trend

Volume has swollen to more than 11 times the stock's average daily put volume, with more than 10,000 of these bearishly oriented options changing hands.