day trade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A transaction in which units of stock or other investment instruments are purchased and then sold within a single market day.
verb
  1. To engage, as a deliberate investment strategy, in the very short-term trading of stocks or other securities, by selling any given security within the same market day during which it was purchased.

Word forms

day trade day trades day-trade daytrade day trading day traded

Derived words

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