Trading Basics
Bear Raid
When bears team up to push the price of a security down, normally by short selling and/or rumours.
This is illegal.
Other Trading Basics
Balance of Trade
Also BoT. This is the difference between trade into or out of a country.
Experts and imports. It can be negative or positive and is used by traders in fundamental analysis.
Bid
Traders can go short at the bid price.
The terminology is from the broker point of view, they are bidding to buy from you.
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