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paper trade

paper trade noun: the business of buying and selling paper.

Noun (1)

the paper trade

  1. The business of buying and selling paper.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) The sale of printed song lyrics by street peddlers.

Noun (2)

paper trade (plural paper trades)

  1. A single transaction within paper trading, i.e. an order in a hypothetical portfolio for learning the stock market.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To engage in or order in the context of paper trading.
    • I suggest you paper trade for 2 to 3 months before you start live trading with real money.2017, Oleg A. Pozhidaev, Proven Trading Strategies For Winning In The Stock Market, Market Prowler LLC / Black Pen Industries LLC, unnumbered page

Forms of paper trade

Noun
pluralpaper trades
Verb
third-person singular presentpaper trades
present participlepaper trading
past participlepaper traded
pastpaper traded

Questions about paper trade

What does paper trade mean?
Paper trade means the business of buying and selling paper.
What part of speech is paper trade?
Paper trade can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of paper trade?
The plural of paper trade is paper trades.

Words near paper trade in the dictionary

  1. paper towels
  2. paper town
  3. paper towns
  4. paper township
  5. paper townships
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