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programme trading

programme trading is the alternative form of program trading.

Meaning of program trading

Noun

program trading (uncountable)

  1. High-volume and high-speed buying and selling of investment securities, such as stocks and bonds, which is initiated and executed by brokerage firms' computer programs that continually monitor market conditions.
    • But the controversy over program trading, the sophisticated investment strategy responsible for the upheavals that have sometimes marked “witching” Fridays, is far from over.1986 September 21, James Sterngold, “Wall Street rethinks its latest trading fad”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 May 2014

Questions about programme trading

What is programme trading the alternative form of?
Programme trading is the alternative form of program trading.

Words near programme trading in the dictionary

  1. programmatists
  2. programme
  3. programme music
  4. programme parade
  5. programme parades
  6. programme trading
  7. programme-maker
  8. programme-makers
  9. programmed
  10. programmed cell death
  11. programmed cell deaths

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