What are 1/32, 1/64, and 1/256 colloquially known as?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by kmiklas, Apr 11, 2018.

  1. kmiklas

    kmiklas

    Title says it all, really. Thx.
     
  2. Overnight

    Overnight

    Colloquially? Umm, fractions of a dollar (point)?
     
  3. Xela

    Xela

    A sixteenth (1/16) is a "teeny", so 1/32 must be a semi-teeny, 1/64 must be a demi-semi-teeny, 1/128 must be a hemi-demi-semi-teeny, and 1/256 must need an electron microscope for identification?
     
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  4. Say that fast 5 times.
     
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  5. southall

    southall

    Not sure but we can make it up:

    If a sixteenth (1/16) is a "teeny" then a 1/32 has to be a 'weeny'

    Now the term 'teeny weeny' reminds me of the old song so:

    1/64th can be an itsy

    1/128th can be a bitsy


     
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  6. Overnight

    Overnight

    Xela be pulling the Close Encounters of the Third Kind thing out of the bullpen there, with the semi-demi half quavers.
     
  7. comagnum

    comagnum

    The fractions are simply the minimal tick size - stocks used to be traded the same way before decimalization began in 2001.

    1 point = $,1000
    Ticks per point = 1 point/decimal tick size

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  8. tiddlywinks

    tiddlywinks

    In the olden days before decimalization and penny/subpenny quotations, 1/16 was a "steenth", like five and seven steenths by thirteen steenths.
     
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