Glossary
- b (price addendum)
- B-shares
- Backwardation
- Balance-sheet analysis
- Bar chart
- Base currency
- Base interest rate
- Basis point
- Basis trade
- Basket certificate
- bB (price addendum)
- Bear Call Spread
- Bear flag
- Bear market
- Bear trap
- Bearer share
- Bears
- Benchmark
- Beta factor
- bG (price addendum)
- Bid
- Bid price
- Bid-ask spread
- Black-Scholes model
- Blue chips
- Bobl Future
- Bodies of the stock exchange
- Bond
- Bond index
- Bonus
- Bonus certificate
- Bonus shares
- Bonus thresholt
- Book-building
- Bookbuilding range
- Börsenordnung (Stock Exchange Rules and Regulations)
- Börsenrat (Exchange Council)
- Break-even point (warrants)
- Breakout gap
- Bridge capital
- Broker
- Brokerage commission
- Bund Future
- Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BAFin)
- Business angel
- Business plan
- Buyback
Bear trap
A phase when investors prepare their portfolio for a bear market, but prices rise, however, and put investors in a tight spot.
A bear trap occurs when investors expect falling prices and therefore make either short sales or remain passive. With prices rising, contrary to expectations, these pessimists are trapped because they either have to close their short positions (i.e. they have to purchase the respective securities in order to limit the losses from their short positions), or they have to buy the already increased shares in order to benefit from the upward movement.
The necessity of having to cover short positions in a rising market is also referred to as a short squeeze.
Synonym: Bull trap
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