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What Does 'Narrative Compression' Mean?

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[ TRADING ][ MARKET ][ NOUN ]
FORCE: Degen EconomyUNIVERSE: TradingCLUSTER: market_narratives

A forecasted term for how quickly a market story goes from being discussed to being fully priced in, shrinking the window to act on it.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"By the time it hit group chats the narrative compression was already done โ€” no room left to run it up."

LORE & ORIGIN

Predictive coinage extending 'narrative' trading vocabulary to describe how fast that window has been shrinking.

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