tickeritis

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ticker +‎ -itis, referencing a stock ticker.

Noun

tickeritis (uncountable)

  1. (informal, humorous, finance) An obsessive interest in the stock market.
    • 1905 May 3, “Editorial”, in The Weekly Northwestern Miller, volume 62, page 263:
      Tickeritis is quicker and more deadly in its action than that old malady, Consignment Fever, but both are exceedingly painful to the victim as well as his sorrowing friends.
    • 1916 January, “Tickeritis”, in The Silent Partner, volume 11, page 79:
      Tickeritis is a malady that causes a man to stand and look at a lot of ever-changing figures over which he cannot hope to have the least control.
    • 1923 October 13, Hayes Wilson, “Are the Oils Suffering from Tickeritis?”, in The Magazine of Wall Street, volume 32, page 1079:
      Tickeritis is an insidious affliction.
    • 2003, Benjamin Gallander, “Rule 9: Search for Beautiful Black Swans”, in The Contrarian Investor's Thirteen: How to Earn Superior Returns in the Stockmarket, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 128:
      Tickeritis is the constant desire to make a deal.
    • [2025 July 17, Prasanna Chandra, Savita Shrimal, “7: Check Your Irrationality”, in Mastering Personal Investments: 20 Steps to Financial Independence, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      Henry Howard Harper in his excellent book The Psychology of Speculation written in 1926 described the constant need to watch the market as ‘tickeritis’.]
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