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nelson trade

(n.)
In fantasy football, when a player proposes a trade that insults another's intelligence, such as proposing Ben Tate when Foster is about to return or Dwayne Bowe when Cassel gets injured.
(ex.)
That guy with a micropenis just offered me a nelson trade.

See also: insult, holocaust, Coach Sandusky, UCLA.
by Shrimp Etouffee November 15, 2011
mugGet the nelson trademug.

Hobo-Trade

When a person (usually without income) trades an item of theirs for a different item that belongs to another person (regardless of whether they are there, or not, to agree with the trade.) It is not outright theft; rather an exchange of items, even if not verbally agreed to.
"I Hobo-Traded my backpack for his blanket while he was gone all week."
by Polly Histor December 14, 2021
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Hippie trade

The act of two people "trading" a drug for a drug, i.e. the bong for the booze, whilst hanging out together.
In the parking lot of a rest stop where Cory and Sara planned to stay for the evening, Sara exhaled from the joint she was smoking and shifted her attention to Cory and his bottle of Fireball whisky; "hippie trade?" she asked.
by Bigmanwalking June 16, 2016
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Trading Size

A trader for example in the stocks and futures market who likes to trade in huge quantity
for example Trading 100 YM (worth $16.4m time of writing) / ES Contracts (dow jones index & S&P 500 Futures)

or buying 10000s of Apple Shares on the spot.

And of course for the Forex traders 10 lots+
Example 1:
Experienced Trader: I like to wait for pullbacks to my specific price levels and i'll buy 100 YM Futures contracts minimum (of time writing worth $16.4m in cash)
Another Trader: That's alot of size Steve i couldn't handle that.
Experienced Trader: I like to trade size the markets reward those who're Trading Size
Another Trader: Oh really steve?
Experienced Trader: Oh yes i like to trade astronomical size!

Example 2:
Steve Ruffley: The ability trade size is a rare, rare thing you know and I'm not even a big trader you know there's guys
out there they are much bigger than me and I trade size because all I make money that's a simple fact
of the matter it's a necessity for me I don't have the interest of patience straight a ten pounds a point it will not give
me what I want out of life so I trade big because the bigger you trade the more money you make
you know you deal with that in your own way.
by Straight As A Pencil March 13, 2021
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Tactical trade

Similar to a normal trade, except nothing is given in return, basically stealing
I got this new Xbox game from a tactical trade at my local Gamestop.
by SigurJ January 31, 2009
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touch trade

The process of trading assets, with the intention to trade them back in the future. Most commonly used in Pokémon to help complete a Pokédex.
"The only Pokémon I am missing in my Pokédex is Pikachu."
"I only have one Pikachu but I want to keep it. To help you out, we can touch trade."
by brycekrispies01 January 22, 2023
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Tape Trading

When you get in the business of selling & trading VHS cassette tapes. This was popular in the 90's and early 2000's & was popularised with tapes of wrestling such as WWF, ECW, AJPW, World of Sport & WCW. These where mainly done over the phone or via postal orders & paid via cheque.
tape trading
"Dear BWL, Can I order 736b, 836c, 938j & 528n please.
Find the cheque attached to this letter bellow"
by Lord Mountevans December 9, 2016
mugGet the Tape Tradingmug.

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