{
  "id": "market-jitters.near-wall",
  "term": "market jitters",
  "sense": "near-wall",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "Anxiety a market reports through prices that move up and down quickly: some wall read as near, before any reading of which.",
  "folk_gloss": "a spell of nervous, unsteady trading in financial markets",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "anxiety.unlocated",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "market.economic",
      "report.information",
      "price.economic",
      "motion.movement",
      "quick.speed",
      "wall.range-end",
      "read.information",
      "near.spatial",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "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.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "anxiety written in prices",
      "a report each reader feeds back into"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Financial reporters use 'market jitters' for days when prices swing on worries that are not yet tied to any single event.",
      "domain": "finance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "economic-anxiety.unlocated",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "economic anxiety is held by households about living; jitters are held by a market and read in its prices"
    },
    {
      "id": "fear-index.priced",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the fear index is one measured price of the same report"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "jittery market",
    "jittery markets",
    "market jitters",
    "nervous market",
    "nervous markets"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-market-jitters.near-wall"
}