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Etymology
From the early 20th-century practice of printing stock prices on ticker tape.

Verb

fight the tape

1. trading To make a trade contrary to the overall tendency of prices, i.e., to buy when prices are generally falling or sell when prices are generally rising.

#: I kept buying hoping the price would go up, but I eventually decided I was fighting the tape.

• 2007-09-13 01:17 - Connel MacKenzieBot - Robot: Automated text replacement (-{{rfc-xphrase|Verb phrase}} +)

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