Meanings
plural day trades · alternative day-trade · alternative daytrade
- businessA 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
present singular third person day trades · participle present day trading · participle past day traded · past day traded · alternative day-trade · alternative daytrade
- businessTo 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
Translations
Finnish päiväkauppa
- päiväkauppabuying and selling within a single market day
Swedish dagshandel
- dagshandelbuying and selling within a single market day
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