smart money
Informed investor funds
Smart money refers to capital invested by those considered most knowledgeable—professional investors, insiders, or experts who supposedly know what they're doing.
The smart money is betting on a rate cut.
By extension, smart money means informed opinion about what will happen: The smart money says she'll win the nomination.
Practically clever, perceptive
- astuteMentally sharp, discerning
- informedGiven necessary knowledge
- knowledgeableHaving extensive information
- cannyShrewdly practical and cautious
discerning · prudent · strategic · calculated · sophisticated · wise · judicious · perceptive
Pooled alternative investment vehicles
- venture capitalStartup growth financing
- private equityCapital for unlisted companies
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- insidersThose with special access
institutional investors · whales · market makers · angel investors · endowments · pension funds · fund managers · arbitrageurs
Likelihood expressed numerically
- betting lineBookmaker's published odds
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- consensusGeneral group agreement
frontrunner · favorite · expected · anticipated · handicapping · probability · conventional wisdom · leading indicator
shrewd
Practically clever, perceptive
- astuteMentally sharp, discerning
- informedGiven necessary knowledge
- knowledgeableHaving extensive information
canny · discerning · prudent · strategic · calculated · sophisticated · wise · judicious · perceptive · sharp
hedge funds
Pooled alternative investment vehicles
- venture capitalStartup growth financing
- private equityCapital for unlisted companies
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
insiders · institutional investors · whales · market makers · angel investors · endowments · pension funds · fund managers · arbitrageurs · speculators
odds
Likelihood expressed numerically
- betting lineBookmaker's published odds
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
consensus · frontrunner · favorite · expected · anticipated · handicapping · probability · conventional wisdom · leading indicator
- trading slangbull, short, long, dip, pump
- money slangbucks, dough, moolah, cheddar, cash
- market sentimentbullish, bearish, bullishness, bearishness, optimism
- startup fundingseed round, venture capital, angel investment, angel investors, seed funding
smart moneydumb money
Naive investor funds
retail investors · rubes · bag holders · the public · suckers
smart moneyspeculation
Unproven theorizing or risky investment
gambling · hot money · panic selling · herd mentality · gut feeling
smart, smarts, cleverness, smarting, smartest, smarter, outsmart, shrewdness, smartly