1) Stock market
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n. an unofficial and usually illegal betting operation in which the prices of stocks and commodities are posted and the customers bet on the rise and fall of prices without actually buying stock, commodities, or commodity futures. Bucket shops are seldom seen today since there are many opportunities to gamble legally on the stock and commodities ma...
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Bucket shop refers to a particular type of fraudulent business: The term is used as a pejorative colloquialism to refer to different kinds of businesses, indicating that the speaker believes it is a fraud or scam. In this sense it might be used as a name for stock market, unregulated credit default swaps, or for heraldry scams. The term is also us...
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[stock market] As defined by the U.S. Supreme Court, a bucket shop is `[a]n establishment, nominally for the transaction of a stock exchange business, or business of similar character, but really for the registration of bets, or wagers, usually for small amounts, on the rise or fall of the prices of stocks, grain, oil, etc., there being no ...
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• An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
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An illegal brokerage firm that accepts customer orders but does not attain immediate executions. A bucket shop broker promises the customer a certain price, but waits until a price discrepancy is present and the trade is advantageous to the firm and then keeps the difference as profit. Alternatively, the broker may never fill the customer`s order b...
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(n) Bucket shop is a type of betting activity where its customers put their bet on a specific chances like rise or fall of market commodity or stock etc and gain or lose based on the occurrence of actual event. It is a sort of gambling activity
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An illegal brokerage firm that accepts customer orders but does not attain immediate executions. A b
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Buck'et shop` An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [ Slang, U.S.]
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Slang term for a disreputable brokerage... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/bucket-shop.htm?id=1791&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of bucket shop'>more</a>
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An unofficial and usually illegal betting operation in which the prices of stocks and commodities are posted and the customers bet on the rise and fall of prices without actually buying stock, commodities, or commodity futures. Bucket shops are seldom seen today since there are many opportunities to gamble legally on the stock and commodities marke...
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Refers to an organization which solicits customer orders but does not execute them immediately for the benefit of the customer. Rather it holds these orders, and tries to improve its own trading basis or advantage to the detriment of the client.
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Bucket shop is American slang for an office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
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n] - an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm 2. [n] - (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
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noun an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
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an unsound, unethical, or overly aggressive brokerage house. · any shady commercial agency, as one dealing in illegally priced theater tickets.
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