Dinky Stock

Fancy Way to Say: Pump and Dump stock This is a stock whose chart resembles that of the fictitious Graftware Tech. from the E*Trade commercial. If you're not familiar, in the commercial a low level employee logs onto E*Trade to check his stock. He pulls up a chart and sees from about 12-1PM or so it has gone from about 10 to 70. Happy as a clam, he goes up to his boss, Mr. Dinky, and quits. On the way back to his desk he grabs a passerby and kisses her. Upon returning to his desk and refreshing his chart he sees his nestegg has gone back to 10. He runs upstairs to tell Mr. Dinky he was just kidding. Anyhow, that's a Dinky Stock: one that shoots to the moon and returns just as quickly.

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