day trader
noun
: a speculator who seeks profit from the intraday fluctuation in the price of a security or commodity by completing double trades of buying and selling or selling and covering during a single session of the market
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In 2021, Reddit caused mass market upheaval when a community of day traders on the platform called WallStreetBets began buying shares of GameStop in an effort to hurt hedge funds betting against the stock.
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Clare Duffy, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
In 2021, Reddit caused mass market upheaval when a community of day traders on the platform called WallStreetBets began buying up shares of GameStop in an effort to hurt hedge funds that bet against the stock.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
In other words, Walmart wants you, yes, you, the day trader who’s been priced out of the stock, to get in on the action.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
This last period is marked by fearless behavior, the entry into the market of unskilled day traders and, ominously, the likelihood of a coming crash.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
Many would-be day traders are about to start paying their student loans again.
—Amina Niasse, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2023
Short sellers, day traders, shares of struggling companies soaring improbably higher: The market right now has all the elements of an old-fashioned meme-stock rally.
—Hannah Miao, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2023
Bed Bath & Beyond has wrapped up its liquidation sale and GameStop is losing executives, so the meme stock crowd is on the hunt for the next big investment for day traders who source their investments largely from Reddit—and may have found it in the kitchen cabinet.
—Bychris Morris, Fortune, 31 July 2023
Kole at the nearby Jiffy baking-mix plant; Dawson Brown, his cousin, as a landscaper; and Richie Mays, dabbling as an online day trader.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
Clare Duffy, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
In 2021, Reddit caused mass market upheaval when a community of day traders on the platform called WallStreetBets began buying up shares of GameStop in an effort to hurt hedge funds that bet against the stock.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
In other words, Walmart wants you, yes, you, the day trader who’s been priced out of the stock, to get in on the action.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
This last period is marked by fearless behavior, the entry into the market of unskilled day traders and, ominously, the likelihood of a coming crash.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
Many would-be day traders are about to start paying their student loans again.
—Amina Niasse, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2023
Short sellers, day traders, shares of struggling companies soaring improbably higher: The market right now has all the elements of an old-fashioned meme-stock rally.
—Hannah Miao, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2023
Bed Bath & Beyond has wrapped up its liquidation sale and GameStop is losing executives, so the meme stock crowd is on the hunt for the next big investment for day traders who source their investments largely from Reddit—and may have found it in the kitchen cabinet.
—Bychris Morris, Fortune, 31 July 2023
Kole at the nearby Jiffy baking-mix plant; Dawson Brown, his cousin, as a landscaper; and Richie Mays, dabbling as an online day trader.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
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“Day trader.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20trader. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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