A series of consecutive price decreases or a general movement toward lower values over time, especially in financial markets.
From 'down' (Old English 'dūn', meaning descending) combined with 'trend' (from Old French 'trendere', meaning to turn). The compound emerged in 20th-century financial terminology to describe sustained declines.
Downtrends are so psychologically powerful that investors often make terrible decisions during them—panicking and selling at the worst possible moment. The word itself reflects how finance borrows directional language to describe abstract market movements.
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