Active stock trader who holds positions for a very short time and makes several trades each day.
A person who buys shares and then sells them again on the same day. Day traders generally hold no positions overnight.
A speculator who will normally initiate and offset a position within a single trading session.
A trader who tries to profit from short term price movements, often taking and closing a position within the same trade day.
A market participant that trades frequently throughout the day and seldom carries existing positions from one trading day into the next.
American term for stock market speculators with short-term vision generally limited to 24 hours. It was a profession that was fashionable for a long time and offered a great deal of material for Hollywood movies, until 2015. The character of the day trader was also greatly applauded in fan-operated Internet cinemas, where it was fodder for many amateur film clips made by former day traders, so-called day trader veterans.
A futures trader who initiates and closes his/her position on the same day.
a career stock trader who buys and sells stocks quickly, often making several dozen trades each day and then closing his stock position (i
a cross between an extrovert and an introvert, with both characteristics in balance, according to Mark Cook, a veteran trader from East Sparta, Ohio
A very active stock trader who buys and sells the same security very quickly, executes a large number of trades each day, and generally closes all positions at the end of each trading day.
Term used to describe people who make regular stock transactions during the space of a trading day. Typically such traders may not even own shares overnight. A risky way of trading and one that is definitely not recommended for the faint-hearted
Traders who take short term positions which are typically liquidated prior to the close of the same trading day.
A trader, usually an independent individual, who buys and sells a futures contract on the same day for a small profit. Often encountered on US futures markets, where they are known as locals.
Is a market participant who has a same-day transaction horizon. Often the positions are held for minutes or hours but they are offset by the end-of-the-market-day.
Speculators who take positions in commodities which are then liquidated prior to the close of the same trading day.
Traders who take positions in the foreign exchange market that are then liquidated prior to the close of the same trading day.
A trader who buys and sells on the basis of small short-term price movements.
Once a term used to describe professional investors who aggressively trade stocks, bonds and other financial instruments to capture short-term swings in prices, it is now applied to individuals who frequent small brokerage firms that offer terminals and quote streams. These individuals use their own capital - sometimes borrowed - to establish an account and then trade on a short-term basis. The term is also applied to individual investors who trade online for short-term gains. Regulators such as the SEC are currently examining the operations of day-trading brokerage firms, who may be reaping huge profits in the form of commissions at the expense of their high-volume customers.
A day trader is an investor who buys or sells stock quickly and frequently, investing for short term gains.
Any investor or trader who liquidates all positions prior to the close of that trading session.
Day traders are in and out of the market many times during the course of one trading session and often do not hold a position in any stocks overnight.
A trader who establishes and liquidates positions within one day's trading, ending the day with no established position in the market.
When you buy and sell an investment within a very short time, sometimes as short as a few minutes or perhaps a few hours, you're considered a day trader. The strategy is to take advantage of rapid price changes to make money quickly. In the past, professional investors did most of the day trading, but as online trading has gained popularity, many more individuals, usually referred to as electronic day traders, do it as well. The risk is that a day trader can lose money as well as make it, since no one can predict how or when prices will change. That risk is compounded by the fact that technology does not always keep pace with investors' orders, so a trader might authorize a sell at one price but have to wait for the order to be executed as the price drops even further. In addition, the trader pays transaction costs on each buy and sell order. Gains must offset those costs if the trader is going to come out ahead.
A trader, often a person with exchange trading privileges, who takes positions and then offsets them during the same trading session prior to the close of trading.
A usually fanatical amateur stockmarket enthusiast who trades from a PC, perhaps as many as 50 times a day.
A stock trader who holds positions for a very short time (from minutes to hours) and makes numerous trades each day. Most trades are entered and closed out within the same day.
Speculator who takes positions in commodities and then liquidates them prior to the close of the same trading day.
