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(collective, finance) Experienced, well-informed investors, gamblers, etc. considered as a group. / The money invested or bet by such people; by extension, the opinions of such people.

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smart money

Noun

collective uncountable historical

(collective, finance) Experienced, well-informed investors, gamblers, etc. considered as a group. / The money invested or bet by such people; by extension, the opinions of such people.

Japanese Meaning

経験豊富で情報通な投資家やギャンブラーなど、集団として市場動向に影響を及ぼす人物群。 / そのような人物たちが実際に投資または賭けに用いる資金、またはそうした人々の意見や動向。

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When the smart money starts moving into renewable energy stocks, retail investors often follow.

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経験豊富で情報に通じた投資家たちが再生可能エネルギー株に流れ始めると、小口投資家はしばしばそれに続きます。

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(collective, finance) Experienced, well-informed investors, gamblers, etc. considered as a group.

First, we will try to understand the market using a simplified model focusing on the psychological perspective of two major groups: the smart money players who are assumed to be driving the market, and the general, uninformed public.

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The money invested or bet by such people; by extension, the opinions of such people.

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Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.

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(military, historical) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injuries received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.

The reader may remember that Mr Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little horse, as a kind of smart-money for the punishment which he imagined he had suffered innocently.

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