| | InvestHub.com's
Finance Dictionary and Glossary of Investment Terms
Snowballing
Definition 1.
Used in the context of general equities. Process by which the exercise of stop orders in a declining or advancing market causes further downward or upward pressure on prices, thus triggering more stop orders and more price pressure, and so on.
|
Definition 2.
A situation in which the exercise of stop orders in a declining (or advancing) market or specific stock creates further downward (or upward) pressure, triggering more stop orders, magnifying the decline (or advance).
|
|
|