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day trade en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A transaction in which units of stock or other investment instruments are purchased and then sold within a single market day.
    • Netting a quick ten grand on a day trade of 1750 shares, he paid off his credit-card debts and gave his wife a ring with five diamonds. 1998 May 11, Jeanne Lee, “Sharing The Dell Wealth”, in CNNMoney,com, retrieved 15 Apr 2011:

Forms

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Translations (2)

sv dagshandel (buying and selling within a single market day) · fi päiväkauppa (buying and selling within a single market day)

day trade en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To engage, as a deliberate investment strategy, in the very short-term trading of stocks or other securities, by selling any given security within the same market day during which it was purchased.
    • No one knows for sure how many people day trade. 1999 August 9, Daniel Kadlec, “Day Trading: It's a Brutal World”, in Time:

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Deriveds

day trader