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daytrader

daytrader 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 daytrader

pluraldaytraders

Questions about daytrader

What is daytrader the alternative form of?
Daytrader is the alternative form of day trader.

Words near daytrader in the dictionary

  1. Daytonian
  2. Daytonians
  3. Daytons
  4. daytrade
  5. daytraded
  6. daytrader
  7. daytraders
  8. daytrades
  9. daytrading
  10. daytrip
  11. daytripped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daytrader (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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