(finance) To carry out the supposed practice whereby locals (floor traders trading for their own account) buy or sell to push prices towards where they suspect stop loss orders lie, with a view to profiting from the resulting acceleration of the move when those orders hit the market.

plural of ideographic full stop

(idiomatic) A statement that no excuses will be made, that the speaker is going to take direct responsibility for matters, rather than pass the responsibility to higher authorities.

(Britain, slang, humorous) Crazy; mad.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pull out all the stops

present participle of pull out all the stops

simple past tense and past participle of pull out all the stops

(idiomatic) To reserve or hold back nothing.

When finding oneself in a troubling situation, one should first make sure one is not making the situation worse by his own actions before addressing all other causes.

Synonym of if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging