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Home Categories Trading Psychology Market sentiment refers to the general consensus about a stock or the stock market as a whole. The opening cross is how Nasdaq determines the opening price for individual stocks that are traded on its exchange. An overreaction in the financial markets is when securities become overbought or oversold for psychological reasons rather than for fundamental reasons. Regret theory refers to human behavior regarding fear of regret, which arises from people anticipating regret if they make the wrong choice. Value traps are investments that trade at such low levels and present buying opportunities for investors but are actually misleading. In the stock market, “baby” refers to unpopular or abandoned stocks.