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day-trader

day-trader is the alternative form of day trader.

Meaning of day trader

Noun

day trader (plural day traders)

  1. A person who practices the short-term investment strategy of trading stocks or other investment instruments by selling any given security during the same market day within which it was purchased.
    • CNBC's reaction is colored by its stressed-out day trader's focus on the short term.2009 March 12, James Poniewozik, “CNBC Under Fire: Sticking Up for the Big Guy?”, in Time

Forms of day-trader

pluralday-traders

Questions about day-trader

What is day-trader the alternative form of?
Day-trader is the alternative form of day trader.

Words near day-trader in the dictionary

  1. day-time
  2. day-to-day
  3. day-to-night
  4. day-trade
  5. day-traded
  6. day-trader
  7. day-traders
  8. day-trades
  9. day-trading
  10. day-tradings
  11. day-trip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: day-trader (page history and authors); day trader (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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