How to Use trader in a Sentence

trader

noun
  • She is a stock trader.
  • At the same time, Harney ordered all the traders in the area into the fort.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • In this case, though, traders attributed the run-up to a short squeeze.
    Joseph Lawler, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 June 2024
  • Just a month ago, traders expected the base rate to rise as high as 6.5%.
    WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But some inside traders are trying to pull him down the Big Board.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • On Tuesday, traders were pricing in a 34% chance the Fed would cut rates by a half point.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Prices have doubled in the past four months, one trader said.
    Reuters, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
  • On the way to the group date, everyone knows two things: Grant is a day trader and Girl Math.
    Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The reluctant hedge fund trader buys the stock at a high price, locking in the loss.
    Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 7 Feb. 2020
  • And with those words, Nancy Pelosi sent a shiver up the spine of many a free-trader.
    Arkansas Online, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Some traders are betting that the Fed might roll out an even larger rate cut of a half-point.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Most of the charges were dismissed and the trader was acquitted.
    Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy.
    Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 12 July 2021
  • Shell, the world's largest LNG trader, said sales of the fuel rose by 9% in the quarter to 18.3 million tonnes.
    Reuters, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • But for the moment, retail traders are making Newsmax one of the most volatile stocks on the street.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
  • In the past year or so, awareness among both customers and traders has increased.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Of course, no trader wants to be positioned with options in the wrong place at the wrong time.
    Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Our last stop was Mattancherry, once home to the large spice markets where traders came to bid and barter.
    Abraham Verghese, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
  • One trader bought $800 worth of the token just four hours after it was launched.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Yields jumped in the bond market as traders built up expectations for the Fed to keep rates high for longer.
    Stan Choe, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But that hasn't stopped traders from betting big on who the next cardinal could be.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
  • The 86-year-old trader has been dealing in the grain since the days of Emperor Haile Selassie.
    The Economist, 13 June 2020
  • That’s a market quirk created by a glut of oil, which has traders running out of places to store it in the near term.
    Author: Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The stock market is always right — a lesson taught to me years ago by a wise old trader.
    Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
  • Such a move is unlikely to have happened without the GameStop traders.
    Rebecca Angelo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Presti is more active than a floor trader on a stock exchange.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Brent Woodall, a former tight end for the Bears, was working as a stock trader on the 89th floor of the South Tower when the building was hit.
    Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The government rate of mahuwa is Rs30 per kilogram but there is no market and no traders.
    Hridayesh Joshi, Quartz India, 8 May 2020
  • Her father was a Wall Street trader currently serving a two-and-a-half-year jail bid.
    Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • Thinking like a trader makes the message clear: the market doesn’t pay premiums for long.
    John Walkup, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025

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