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tick definition - finance
The minimum price movement on a futures contract. If the tick is up, it is called an uptick; if it is down, it is called a downtick.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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