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Gunning
Gunning is when a large participant deliberately tries to distort the price toward a known area of stop-loss orders, which are subsequently triggered for profit or strategy. It takes advantage of the fact that traders tend to place their stop-loss orders just outside known, clear, and technical trading levels, such as round numbers or the highs or lows of a pattern.
After they trigger “stops,” the momentum that follows is either reduced by the player who was the first to push through the level or used to set up a position at a better price before they turn around and take the opposite position.
Example: Suppose the GBP/USD pair has been consolidating just above 1.2500 for a few sessions, with a significant cluster of retail sell-stops just beneath that critical level. A significant institutional player could place a massive sell order during a low-liquidity trading session, briefly pushing the pair below 1.2500, triggering stop-loss orders and a cascade of automatic panic selling. Within a few minutes, the institutional player could buy up this manufactured selling volume at a discount, and the pair is instantly restored back above 1.2500. A big player hit a predictable pool of liquidity below a major round number, and the stops were shot. The level may have been violated without reflecting real bearish sentiment.
Gunning/gunned
Gunning is when a significant trader is alleged to deliberately cause a price move towards a known concentration of stop-loss orders, with the aim of triggering such orders for potential strategic or trading purposes. When stops are run, the price may briefly move beyond the range where the stops are located, initiating a cascade of orders before the move potentially exhausts and reverses course.
It takes advantage of the tendency for some traders to place stops just beyond obvious technical levels, such as round numbers or recent highs and lows.
Example: GBP/USD is consolidating slightly above a critical psychological floor, with stop-loss orders potentially clustered just below 1.2500. A cluster of stops is triggered when a large institutional sell order moves the pair below 1.2500 after a period of low volume. This cascade of sell-stops may contribute to a quick, short-term move lower. Within minutes, the pair climbs back over the figure as the triggered orders are executed and buying activity returns. Such a move may be described as “gunning” when market participants believe that the price was deliberately pushed towards a known concentration of stops.
Guyanese Dollar (GYD)
The Guyanese Dollar (GYD) is the official currency of Guyana, which became the world’s fastest-growing per-capita economy after massive offshore oil production began in 2019. Rather than using a managed float, the Bank of Guyana operates a de facto stabilized arrangement, maintaining a tightly controlled, fixed-like peg against the US dollar to anchor its domestic financial system.
This historic resource boom exposes Guyana to “Dutch Disease,” where massive capital inflows threaten to appreciate the currency and wipe out non-oil sectors.
Example: As petrodollars surged, the central bank faced a classic macroeconomic conundrum: managing immense dollar inflows without letting the GYD appreciate. Under its stabilized framework, the bank intervenes in the foreign exchange market to help stabilize the exchange rate. By preventing the GYD from strengthening, policymakers ensure that traditional exports like agriculture remain globally competitive, using this currency stability to build lasting infrastructure before the oil runs out.
GWei
GWei is a unit used to measure the amount of ether (ETH), the cryptocurrency used to run the Ethereum network, and is one billionth of an ETH. It is called giga, and the smallest unit of ether is wei. The unit for gas pricing on Ethereum is gwei, a unit used to estimate transaction costs without decimal points.
If someone says the gas price is 25 gwei, it means one unit of computation would cost 25 billionths of an ether. Layer-two solutions have been created to offer more affordable transaction processing, as the price of ETH has climbed. The fees based on gwei have become more relevant in the real world as ETH prices rise, a critical factor driving growth in L2 solutions that offer more cost-effective transaction processing.
Example: A user looking at the gas price in their wallet before a DeFi transaction and seeing it at 18 gwei, which is quite low by Ethereum mainnet standards. They follow through and pay about $4 for a several-hundred-dollar swap. At peak times, when the gas price reaches 120 gwei, that same transaction would cost approximately $25, and smaller trades could become uneconomical on the mainnet.
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