day trading

noun

1. the practice of buying and selling shares on the same day, often via the internet, in order to make a quick profit

Other Word Forms

• day trader noun

Example Sentences

“I’m not day trading or anything like that,” Greene says.

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Real estate platform Opendoor Technologies and bitcoin-related data-center developer Cipher Mining—recent favorites among the day trading, social-media crowd—have both posted monster rallies with little apparent tie to business fundamentals.

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As the name implies, this investing strategy does not try too hard: It aims to replicate the performance of a market index rather than trying to outperform it through day trading or stock selection.

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"I get messages all the time. 'Hey, I want to try this day trading shorting thing.' In the comment section, emails - minimum one a day. And I always say, 'look, are you employed? Don't do it'."

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In its first day trading on the New York Stock Exchange the German footwear company's shares never touched their IPO price of $46.

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