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📈 A small increase 💹 A higher trade
uptick

uptick

1 7.3
A trade on the stock market at a higher price than the previous one
  • noun
  • /ˈʌpˌtɪk/
  • Specialized
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  • When more bad utility news arrived, you see margin calls and forced sales (with no rules about naked shorts and a short selling uptick).

Examples

  • Did you notice on today's Dow, most of the uptick was early this morning?

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  • There was a noticeable uptick in stock prices after the company's positive earnings report.

  • Following the announcement, we observed an uptick in trading volume for that stock.

  • Investors were pleased to see an uptick in the market index this morning, indicating renewed confidence.

Antonyms

downtick
  • Specialized
1 8.4

A small drop in a stock price from the previous trade

How Much

surge
132 4.2
rally
  • Specialized
21 4.0
uptick
  • Specialized
1 7.3
unchanged
62 1.0
downtick
  • Specialized
1 8.4

Surface Forms

uptick singular
upticks plural

Morphology

uptick = tick (transparent) = up + tick

In the stock-market sense, 'tick' is a standard term for a small price movement, so 'up' + 'tick' directly indicates a trade at a higher price. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Uptick comes from early stock-market talk: up means 'higher' and tick was the small change of a price on the ticker. So an uptick is a trade made at a higher price than the one before.