day trading

British  

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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Other Word Forms

• day trader noun

Example Sentences

The site and its rival Polymarket have quickly become a part of pop culture, and are especially popular with young men who are drawn by the similarities to sports gambling and day trading.

From The Wall Street Journal

That is a mere 24 months away, which is day trading for building a naval fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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