n.

1. The act of surrendering or giving up. See synonyms at surrender.
2. A document containing the terms of surrender.
3. An enumeration of the main parts of a subject; a summary.

A military term. Capitulation refers to surrendering or giving up.

In the stock market, capitulation is associated with "giving up" any previous gains in stock price as investors sell equities in an effort to get out of the market and into less risky investments. True capitulation involves extremely high volume and sharp declines. It usually is indicated by panic selling.

Investopedia Says:
After capitulation selling, it is thought that there are great bargains to be had. The belief is that everyone who wants to get out of a stock, for any reason (including forced selling due to margin calls), has sold. The price should then, theoretically, reverse or bounce off the lows. In other words, some investors believe that true capitulation is the sign of a bottom.

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Find out what it means when investors are selling off their stocks for safer investments. Panic Selling - Capitulation Or Crash?
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noun

The act of submitting or surrendering to the power of another: submission, surrender. See resist/yield, win/lose/recovery.

n

Definition: giving in
Antonyms: defeat, defending, fight, fighting, victory

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kapitulering, overgivelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
capitulatie

Français (French)
n. - (gén, Mil) capitulation (devant)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kapitulation

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - συνθηκολόγηση, απαρίθμηση των κυριότερων σημείων

Italiano (Italian)
capitolazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - rendição (f), enumeração (f), capitulação (f)

Русский (Russian)
капитуляция

Español (Spanish)
n. - capitulación, rendición

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kapitulation

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
有条件投降, 条件, 投降书

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 有條件投降, 條件, 投降書

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 조건부 항복, 항복문서

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 降伏, 降伏文書, 要項, 要約

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) استسلام بشروط معينه, وثيقه الاستسلام‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כניעה, החלקים העיקריים של נושא, הסכם או מערכת תנאים‬

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