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wash trades

wash trades is the plural of wash trade.

Meaning of wash trade

Noun

wash trade (plural wash trades)

  1. A trade in which someone simultaneously sells and buys (from themselves) the same financial instruments, to create misleading, artificial activity in the market (especially to make the instruments appear to be frequently traded and in demand).
    • To do so, you plan to list the NFT for sale and buy it from yourself at a buzzworthy sum—say, for 1,000 ETH. If you already have a lot of crypto wealth, you can easily execute this wash trade by simply purchasing the NFT from yourself using a second account.2022, Seoyoung Kim, DeFi For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 116

Questions about wash trades

What is wash trades the plural of?
Wash trades is the plural of wash trade.

Words near wash trades in the dictionary

  1. wash sale
  2. wash sales
  3. wash stand
  4. wash stands
  5. wash trade
  6. wash trades
  7. wash trading
  8. wash tub
  9. wash tubs
  10. wash up
  11. wash ups

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