chartist

[ chahr-tist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a specialist in the stock market who studies and draws charts of trading actions.
a cartographer.

chartist

/ ˈtʃɑːtɪst /

a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities

First recorded in 1960–65; chart + -ist

In the Chartist riots of 1839, the people tore up the railings round the churchyard to use as pikes.

But it has gradually attached itself to an advanced Radical programme of a Chartist description.

A successful Chartist revolt would at once send the whole free trade and fettered currency measures by the board in three months.

Gerard became a marked man in the Chartist Convention, a member of a small but resolute committee.

The great Chartist who, having been tried and sentenced to transportation, had been sent to Bermuda in May, 1848.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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