day trade

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

Noun

day trade (plural day trades)

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.1998 May 11, Jeanne Lee, “Sharing The Dell Wealth”, in CNNMoney,com, retrieved 15 Apr 2011

day trade (third-person singular simple present day trades, present participle day trading, simple past and past participle day traded)

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.1999 August 9, Daniel Kadlec, “Day Trading: It's a Brutal World”, in Time

Noun
plural	day trades
alternative form	day-trade
alternative form	daytrade
Verb
third-person singular present	day trades
present participle	day trading
past participle	day traded
past	day traded

What does day trade mean?: Day trade means a transaction in which units of stock or other investment instruments are purchased and then sold within a single market day.
What part of speech is day trade?: Day trade can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of day trade?: The plural of day trade is day trades.

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