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

day-trade

ˈdā-ˌtrād 

noun or verb

Examples of day trader in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This market swing happened because hyper-vigilant investors and day traders, glued to their screens for any sign of a reversal, hoped that cooler heads would prevail. —Hillary Stalker, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

By Monica Mercuri Contestants so far in Season 7 include 24-year-old fitness coach Huda Mustafa, 24-year-old cowboy Taylor Williams and 27-year-old day trader Chelley Bissainthe. —Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025

Therefore, investors, speculators, day traders, and short sellers could already be altering their current strategies for a reversal. —John S. Tobey, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024

Throughout the day there was some garden variety intraday choppiness, but nothing that would have alarmed investors that weren’t day traders. —Paolo Confino, Fortune, 4 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for day trader

• crusader
• invader
• persuader
• aider
• fader
• grader
• kadir
• nadir
• prader
• raider
• schrader
• seder