market behavior
How markets act
Market behavior describes the collective patterns of buying, selling, and pricing in economic systems.
It encompasses how markets respond to news, sentiment, and external forces: Analysts study market behavior to predict trends.
The term often implies that markets act with a kind of aggregate psychology—exhibiting panic, exuberance, or caution as if they were a single organism rather than millions of individual decisions.
- tradingExchanging for value
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
- sentimentFelt attitude or view
- animal spiritsInstinctive economic confidence
- bullsAdult male cattle
bears · panic · flight to safety · rally · crash · speculation · dead cat bounce · short squeeze · trends · herd · risk appetite · momentum · fluctuation · selloff · frenzy · correction · bubble · irrational
- etiquettemanners, politeness, etiquette, table manners, courtesy
- neuroeconomicsdecision making, loss aversion, dopamine, prefrontal cortex, brain imaging
market behaviorcentral planning
Government directs all production
command economy · state control · planned economy · government intervention · dirigisme
market behaviormarket failure
Inefficient resource distribution
irrational exuberance · market manipulation · herd mentality · panic selling · market panic
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