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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Smolinski is a full-time day trader, and U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
That’s a product that only a day trader can love.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
One day Leonard wasn’t there—he’d quit to become a day trader.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“I don’t know which direction the stock is going,” says Schenectady, N.Y., day trader Richard Persaud while checking his iPhone amid the surge.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
“We don’t really know what’s going to happen,” said Jian Tian, a day trader and bitcoin miner in El Monte.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 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
