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Anxiety a market reports through prices that move up and down quickly: some wall read as near, before any reading of which.

Market jitters (noun) means: Anxiety a market reports through prices that move up and down quickly: some wall read as near, before any reading of which. It emerges from anxiety, collective self, market, report: Many traders each act on an unlocated fear, and their acts sum into prices that swing; the swings are then read by every trader as further evidence of a near wall. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

market-jitters.near-wall · forms: jittery market, jittery markets, market jitters, nervous market, nervous markets

ordinarily means: a spell of nervous, unsteady trading in financial markets

Examples

Emergence

from: anxiety collective self market report price motion quick wall read near time
through: Many traders each act on an unlocated fear, and their acts sum into prices that swing; the swings are then read by every trader as further evidence of a near wall.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 3 more not shownmarket jittersL18market-jitters.near-wall — Anxiety a market reports through prices that move up and down quickly: some wall read as near, before any reading of whianxietyL16anxiety.unlocated — Fear with no located wall: a self model reporting that some wall is near without a reading of which.collective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one marketL17market.economic — a place where people exchange goods for moneyreportL8report.information — a message that states information about an eventpriceL8price.economic — the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionmotionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.quickL10quick.speed — being fast in time and shortwallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.

Relations

contrasts-witheconomic-anxiety.unlocatedeconomic anxiety is held by households about living; jitters are held by a market and read in its prices
contrasts-withfear-index.pricedthe fear index is one measured price of the same report

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md