Flood-tide: rising tide, part of the tidal cycle between low water and the next high water.
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Ebb-tide: the falling tide, part of the tidal cycle between high water and the next low water.
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It allows for a cycle of bids to appear in the marketplace as the tide of buying moves between the various skittish groups that have been witness to a decade of perpetual fear.
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