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day trading

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noun

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

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  • day trader noun

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Salon

"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'."

From BBC

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

From Reuters