day trading
noun
the practice of buying and selling shares on the same day, often via the internet, in order to make a quick profit
day trader
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a word derived from
day trading.
day-trader
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a word derived from
day-trade.
day-tradeverb (used without object)to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
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That’s a product that only a day trader can love.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
That rush into stocks swept up John Bevis, a 33-year-old day trader, who has been spending longer hours at his desk in the living room of his home in Clemson, South Carolina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
South Korea’s president was a 30-something day trader.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
The self-proclaimed mama’s boy and former pro basketball player who now works as a day trader will become only the second Black lead of the series, which launched in 2002.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024
Buying across the group of stocks markedly outpaced sales with chatter in popular day trader chatrooms pumping up the outlook for the movie theater and homes-good retailer.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
That narrator is Charlie Friend, a lazy day-trader in London who vacillates between bouts of grandiosity and worthlessness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2019
And perhaps you assumed that the twin calamities of the Internet crash and the Great Recession had doomed the day-trader species in the unruly jungle of American capitalism.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2010
