paper trading
paper trading noun: a simulated form of trading where individuals practice buying and selling securities, such as stocks or options, using virtual rather than real money. Also the present participle and gerund of paper trade.
Noun
paper trading
- A simulated form of trading where individuals practice buying and selling securities, such as stocks or options, using virtual rather than real money.
- Learning from paper trading may be difficult for a number of reasons, including that it requires significant discipline to keep track of hypothetical trades and that transaction prices for hypothetical trades are not observable.2010, Amit Seru, Tyler Shumway, Noah Stoffman, “Learning by Trading”, in The Review of Financial Studies, volume 23, number 2, Oxford University Press. Sponsor: The Society for Financial Studies....
- Synonyms:
- demo trading, paper investing, simulated trading
Also used as
paper trading is also the present participle and gerund of paper trade.
Synonyms of paper trading
Origin of paper trading
From the habits of less digital eras, when people used pens to record their imagined plans in personal notebooks and later assessed their progress through sources like physical newspapers.
Words formed from paper trading
Questions about paper trading
- What does paper trading mean?
- Paper trading means a simulated form of trading where individuals practice buying and selling securities, such as stocks or options, using virtual rather than real money.
- What part of speech is paper trading?
- Paper trading is a noun.
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