This slide explains about various trading animals in stock exchange and their significance with share market

2. The Bull
A bull is the most prominent and
positive animal of the stock
market. Bullish means the market
is in positive territory with the
stock prices increasing and
investors putting more money in
the market. When bullish, the
investors are optimistic about the
market and it drives the stock
prices upwards. This trend could
go on for years at times.

3. The Bear
A bear market is the exact opposite of a
bull market. Investors’ sentiment and
outlook towards the market is negative
and pessimistic during a bearish time,
which results in lesser investments.
Usually, the market is said to be bearish
when there is a downfall of about 20%.
This could last for up to months. This
period could also occur when a country
is going through an economic turmoil
that results in job losses which in turn
results in lesser investments.

4. The Rabbit
Rabbits are the traders who
buy stocks and keep their
position for a very short
period of time. They are
usually intraday traders who
are looking for a quick
profit. Rabbits might not
even hold a stock overnight
and they are always on the
hunt for quick bucks during
the day.

5. The Turtle
Turtles are the exact opposite of
rabbits. They are investors who
like to stay invested for a longer
period of time. They make the least
number of trades and they are not
bothered about short-term market
price fluctuations. The Turtile like
to bank on stocks that have the
potential to grow in long term and
stay invested in them.

6. The Pig
A pig is an investor who is
greedy and emotional. Returns
are never enough for them and
they ignore proven investment
ideologies and try to always
earn big. Hence, pigs always
end up having a huge loss or a
huge profit.

7. The Ostrich
Ostriches are known to have a
particular character. They bury
their head in sand when times are
tough. They ignore unpleasant
occurrences and hope that they
will disappear. Investors with such
an attitude are called ostriches.
They ignore the bad market
conditions and keep their
investments in the belief that the
market will come back to normalcy
organically with time.

8. The Chicken
A chicken is a stock market
investor who chickens out
during tough times. They panic
even during the slightest of bear
tendencies and make impulsive
decisions on their investments.
They often forget that volatilities
are a part of stock markets and
live in constant fear of losses.

9. The Sheep
Sheep are known for their herd
mentality and an investor who has
a similar attitude is called a
sheep. They often follow an
investment advice blindly without
putting in any thoughts of their
own. They are usually not
confident in making their own
investment strategies and they
are always the last to follow an
upward trend and leave a
downward trend.

10. The Dog
Dogs are smaller stocks
in a bigger market. They
are beaten down by
their poor performance
and investors and
analysts expect them to
recover.

11. The Stag
A stag is a short-term
investor – like an intraday
investor – who tries to
make money through
quick and short-term
investments. They often
require a huge amount of
liquid capital and are
known to have the ability
to turn a bearish market
into a bullish one and vice
versa.

12. The Wolf
You might have seen the
movie ‘Wolf of the wall street.’
It is the story of American
stockbroker Jordan Belfort,
who plead guilty of scams
related to stock markets and
wolves are investors exactly
like that. They are powerful
and often unethical in their
ways of making money. They
are not reluctant to run scams
and frauds to earn more.

13. The Lame Duck
A lame-duck is an
investor who is unable
to meet their claims of
the day and is in debt.
Lame-duck is also
used to refer to
investors who have
gone bankrupt.

14. The Whale
A whale is an investor,
often anonymous, who
places an unusually large
order in the stock market.
Whale orders can change
the course of the stock
and have a substantial
effect on market
movements as well. Hedge
funds are most associated
with whale orders.

15. The Shark
Sharks are investors who
lure retail investors to buy
obscure stocks offering
them high returns. They
manipulate stock prices by
trading among themselves
and when the prices are
high enough, they dump the
stocks on retail investors
and vanish.

16. Dead Cat bounce
A dead cat bounce is a
short-lived upward trend
of a stock or the market
which was bearish for a
long period of time.
Usually, after the bounce,
the stock goes back to its
downward trajectory.

17. Dogs of the Dow
Dogs of the Dow is an
investment strategy that tries
to beat the Dow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) by
buying the highest dividend-
paying stocks each year.
First published in 1991, the
strategy has a track record of
beating the DJI index for 10-
years following the financial
crisis.

18. Conclusion
Every animal reference used in trading has its own
significance. Understanding this jargon is important in
grasping vital information about stock markets on a daily
basis. Some of these usages act as a strategy and some even
as a warning. It is advisable to understand the nuances of
stock markets before you start investing to gain the maximum
out of your investment.