A candlestick depicts the battle between Bulls (buyers) and Bears (sellers) over a given period of time. 1  An analogy to this battle can be made between two football teams, which we can also call the Bulls and the Bears.
1. check stub-the part of a check that is retained as a record. counterfoil, stub. record-anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events; the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques.
Stub (stock) A stub is the stock representing the remaining equity in a corporation left over after a major cash or security distribution from a buyout, a spin-out, a demerger or some other form of restructuring removes most of the company's operations from the parent corporation. A stub may retain the name of the original corporation, or in some cases may take another name as part of the restructuring.