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Witching meaning
Of or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers. | Of a person: having the power to bewitch someone or something. | Bewitching, enchanting.
Example sentences (16)
I’ll dig into the state of momentum in the market… and eye the June 16 Quad Witching (options expiration event).
The week ends with the simultaneous expiration of stock options, stock index futures, and stock index options contracts in a trader's paradise known as triple-witching day.
This week is the most crucial OPEX week before Quadruple Witching hits you next month from everywherei.
It was a witching hour - a haunted hour - a night of monsters and madmen, curses and candy.
Friday was a quadruple “witching day," Wall Street-speak for the quarterly expiration of stock options and futures contracts, which forces traders to tie up loose ends in contracts they hold, leading to particularly heavy trading volume.
It's the closest to that witching hour we've ever been.
Trading volume is expected to spike, especially during the opening and close of Friday’s session on account of “quadruple witching,” as investors unwind interests in futures and options contracts prior to expiration.
It was like a witching rod.
The September triple witching and the restructuring of the FTSE indexes saw most Greek stocks posting healthy gains on Friday on a daily turnover of more than 100 million euros, leading to a weekly rise for the benchmark.
The sun appears larger during those witching hours because of atmospheric light dispersal.
The Witching Hour: Episode 4 - Do Stephen King Adaptations Work Better on Film or TV?
Though sophisticated attacks require long-term preparation, they can be executed at targets (like single points of failure) and timing (such as “quadruple witching days”) for maximum disruption.
To put it simply, these photos of (possibly) Vivian’s Antichrist baby were posted around the witching hour.
A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod, called a dowsing rod, divining rod (Latin: virgula divina or baculus divinatorius), a "vining rod" or witching rod is sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all.
Sometimes they appear in the form of the three witches from DC's horror anthology, The Witching Hour : Mildred, Mordred, and Cynthia.
This method is sometimes known as "willow witching".