parabolic

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For proof, check out the parabolic growth of meme stocks, which have often benefited from the power of the retail trader.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Jordi Visser, head of research at 22V, also sees a pullback given silver’s parabolic surge over the past year.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

Front-month gold futures continued their parabolic move toward $5,000 a troy ounce, closing Friday at $4,976.20.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Since then, the Nasdaq has climbed, the S&P 500 is near its highs, gold has gone parabolic — classic risk-on behavior.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 17, 2025

Nevertheless, his idealized parabolic trajectory in a vacuum was an essential precondition for the much more sophisticated analysis by Robins and Euler of actual trajectories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton