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bag holding
[ bag hohl-ding ]
noun
- the act of retaining an unprofitable investment to avoid selling it at a loss, only to suffer an even worse loss when the investment eventually becomes worthless:
Bag holding is something most traders have done at some point, even the best ones.
adjective
- Usually bagholding. having, relating to, or characterizing an investment that is or will likely become worthless after the investor’s failure to sell it at a loss earlier in its decline:
Sites like that give bagholding investors a false sense of security.
He told me how to identify and avoid stocks that pose a higher bag holding risk.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bag holding1
Example Sentences
Wells hit a grounder that appeared headed for center field, but Edman smothered it with a diving stop on the second-base side of the bag, holding Wells to a single that loaded the bases.
Jimenez was arrested the day after the shooting after his friends told police he left the theater halfway through the movie and returned with a bag holding a “strap,†according to a search warrant.
He looked at a plastic beaker in a plastic bag holding the new legally grown weed and a much smaller plastic container for illegal pot.
Inside a post-mortem room in Tel Aviv, a pathologist leans over an exam table, marking a bag holding the remains of one of the Israelis killed by militants.
Her 20-year-old brother George told Worcester Crown Court how she had asked him to take out the bin bag holding Stanley's remains in March 2019.
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