day trade

day trade
1. noun
A transaction in which units of stock or other investment instruments are purchased and then sold within a single market day.

Netting a quick ten grand on a day trade of 1750 shares, he paid off his credit-card debts and gave his wife a ring with five diamonds.

2. verb
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.

No one knows for sure how many people day trade.


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