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buy the dip en · VERB

Etymology

Referring to the "dip" (fall) in a stock's market value, which allows an investor to purchase its shares at a cheaper price and possibly earn better gains if the stock rebounds to its previous high.

Meanings

1. (slang) To purchase a financial asset after its market value drops.
   • Many traders are told to “buy the dip and sell the pullback” but not exactly when to execute this. It has been left up to the trader to enter when he or she feels the time is right. 2009, Ken Wood, Trade the Patterns: The Revolutionary Way of Trading the CCI, Traders Press, →ISBN, page 31:
   • This week, BlackRock's Larry Fink noted that sovereign wealth funds had bought the dip by snapping up bitcoin while it traded just above $80,000, in a sign that parts of the investment community remained bullish even as prices fell to their lowest level in eight months. 2025 December 6, George Steer, Jill R Shah, Nikou Asgari, “Crypto’s rocky year”, in FT Weekend (Big Read section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
   • During upward-sloping cycles in the Investment Rate, a long bias with proper diversification should result in positive portfolio returns, without drawn-out setbacks, if investors are willing to buy the dips, especially the big ones, at all times. 2009, Thomas H. Kee, Buy and Hold Is Dead: How to Make Money and Control Risk in Any Market, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 35:

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Relateds

profit taking · panic selling · pullback · buy low, sell high