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Definition of Oversold
1. Adjective. (finance) A stock or commodity market condition where there has been significant trading driving prices down to lower levels, levels which seem overextended or excessive on a short-term basis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oversold
1. oversell [v] - See also: oversell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversold
Literary usage of Oversold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"It is absolutely the real thing; a novel so fine, so sincere, so absorbing that
it cannot be overpraised or oversold. Henry Sydnor Harrison's SAINT TERESA ..."
2. The Investor's Catechism by Marcus Mathias Reynolds (1909)
"What is an oversold MARKET ? When more stocks are sold than the bears can obtain
or deliver ... The market then is technically described as oversold. ..."
3. Reducing Capital Cost in Southern Africa by Martín Grandes, Nicolas Pinaud (2005)
"The oversold Forward Book and the Net Open Forward Position » The amount of
forward sales of dollars by the SARB not covered by equivalent forward purchases ..."
4. Shortage of Sugar: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the ... 75th Congress by Committee on Manufactures, United States, Senate, Congress (1918)
"Did you deliver at the same price that you were oversold at? Mr. liou'H. We were
oversold at this price; yes. The CHAIRMAN. You say the chances are that he ..."
5. The Stock Market by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1922)
""oversold" or "overbought" condition of the market means that there has been,
... Should this oversold or overbought condition be discovered, the opposing ..."