trade on

verb

traded on; trading on; trades on

transitive verb

: to take often unscrupulous advantage of : exploit

… traded on their influence … in securing special favors.

—T. C. Pease

Examples of trade on in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Elon Musk's SpaceX begins trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Friday with the biggest initial public offering in history expected to make the polarizing entrepreneur the world's first trillionaire. — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Since its first trade on June 12, SpaceX has lost more than $500 billion in market value and fallen over 50% from its intraday high, coming off a fourth consecutive weekly decline. — Yun Li, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026

Gasoline prices are beginning to disconnect from oil prices, instead trading on storage levels, or inventories, according to Rob Thummel, senior portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital Advisors LLC. — Kevin Crowley, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026

The Fed chairman devoted a fair amount of time to discussing his preference for markets to trade on economic data, as opposed to Fed policy. — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 29 July 2026

Rhymes for trade on

• aileron
• antiphon
• autobahn
• carillon
• castellan
• celadon
• cephalon
• cynodon
• denouement
• deuteron
• echelon
• epsilon