A guide to popular WallStreetBets terms
Users on the Reddit board refer to themselves as ‘degenerates’ and speak in their own memes and phrases, often borrowed from other internet subcultures.
YOLO (You Only Live Once) When someone risks
their entire portfolio on a single stock or options
trade.
Stonks 📈 Stocks, as in shares of a company,
but misspelled on purpose, often when
commenting on a financial loss.
Tendies 🍗 Gains or profits that are made on an
investment. (This word is borrowed from 4chan
culture, where it refers to chicken tenders
demanded by an imagined 20-something man
living at home with his mother).
Diamond hands 💎🙌 When a trader is
prepared to hold on to their stocks or securities
for a long time.
Paper hands ✋🧻 When a trader sells their
stocks and securities way too early, before they
were able to reach maximum profits.
JPOW Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
$Becky An array of stocks ‘loved by White
college girls,’ like Etsy, Lululemon Athletica, Ulta
Beauty and Starbucks.
Rocket ships, Andromeda and to the moon
🚀🚀🚀 Used to express unbridled optimism
about a stock’s future gains.
YOLO (You Only Live Once) When someone risks their
entire portfolio on a single stock or options trade.
Stonks 📈 Stocks, as in shares of a company, but
misspelled on purpose, often when commenting on a
financial loss.
Tendies 🍗 Gains or profits that are made on an
investment. (This word is borrowed from 4chan culture,
where it refers to chicken tenders demanded by an
imagined 20-something man living at home with his
mother).
Diamond hands 💎🙌 When a trader is prepared to
hold on to their stocks or securities for a long time.
Paper hands ✋🧻 When a trader sells their stocks and
securities way too early, before they were able to reach
maximum profits.
JPOW Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
$Becky An array of stocks ‘loved by White college girls,’
like Etsy, Lululemon Athletica, Ulta Beauty and
Starbucks.
Rocket ships, Andromeda and to the moon 🚀🚀🚀
Used to express unbridled optimism about a stock’s
future gains.
YOLO (You Only Live Once) When someone risks their entire portfolio on a single stock or options trade.
Stonks 📈 Stocks, as in shares of a company, but misspelled on purpose, often when commenting on a financial loss.
Tendies 🍗 Gains or profits that are made on an investment. (This word is borrowed from 4chan culture, where it refers
to chicken tenders demanded by an imagined 20-something man living at home with his mother).
Diamond hands 💎🙌 When a trader is prepared to hold on to their stocks or securities for a long time.
Paper hands ✋🧻 When a trader sells their stocks and securities way too early, before they were able to reach
maximum profits.
JPOW Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
$Becky An array of stocks ‘loved by White college girls,’ like Etsy, Lululemon Athletica, Ulta Beauty and Starbucks.
Rocket ships, Andromeda and to the moon 🚀🚀🚀 Used to express unbridled optimism about a stock’s future gains.
