trading

UK/ˈtɹeɪdɪŋ/US/ˈtɹeɪdɪŋ/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,341 of 15,258leans written

Trading is the buying and selling of goods or shares. Trading hours, heavy trading, suspend trading.

In markets it means the daily business of buying and selling rather than long-term investing, and an exchange will suspend trading in a share when news is about to break, so that nobody deals on it before everybody has heard.

Definitions of trading

1nountradingThe buying and selling of goods or shares.B2
“The port grew rich from trading in spices and silk.”

trading is a business activity.

Practise this word

trading in the wild

Many jurisdictions require that such trading be reported so the transactions can be monitored.
Insider trading
Based in Manhattan, New York City, the exchange is among the most active stock trading venues by volume in the United States.
Nasdaq
Future exchanges that also offer trading in securities besides trading in futures contracts may be listed both here and in the list of futures exchanges.
List of major stock exchanges
Day trading is a form of speculation in securities in which a trader buys and sells a financial instrument within the same trading day.
Day trading
Day trading may require fast trade execution, sometimes as fast as milli-seconds in scalping, therefore direct-access day trading software is often needed.
Day trading

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