day trade
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]day trade (plural day trades)
- (business, finance) A transaction in which units of stock or other investment instruments are purchased and then sold within a single market day.
- 1998 May 11, Jeanne Lee, “Sharing The Dell Wealth”, in CNNMoney,com, retrieved 15 April 2011:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]buying and selling within a single market day
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Verb
[edit]day trade (third-person singular simple present day trades, present participle day trading, simple past and past participle day traded)
- (business, finance) 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.
- 1999 August 9, Daniel Kadlec, “Day Trading: It's a Brutal World”, in Time:
- No one knows for sure how many people day trade.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “day trade”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.