trading
- noun
- /ˈtreɪdɪŋ/
- Specialized
- Many investors prefer day trading to hold stocks for long periods.
- stock trading
- a trading partner
- a trading system
That's just summer trading from from April to now.
- That's just summer trading from from April to now.
- It's really meant for short term trading, not long term investing.
- No stock trading, no stock buying, no stock selling.
- Trading pauses were triggered on six trading days in late January.
- Where your shares are trading, but they're only available for trading among institutions.
- I think that's true of trading and that's OK.
- So if I just do NYUC trading halts, you can Google that.
- And that's because trading is the abstracted version of this.
Examples
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Two councils have set up trading companies, and many more have expressed interest in the concept.
Academic text (2011) -
I think there is a difference in trading in shares.
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No stock trading, no stock buying, no stock selling.
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It's really meant for short term trading, not long term investing.
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So if you look at the history of trading, we're talking Silk Roads here.
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Navaho men were walking down the road toward the trading post, some six miles away.
Fiction book (1991) -
Where your shares are trading, but they're only available for trading among institutions.
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Economically, it has become the world's fourteenth-largest trading nation and seventh-largest foreign investor.
Academic text (1999) -
By 1729, the English also began to entreat the Choctaws as potential trading partners and allies.
Academic text (1999) -
The rapid trading of goods and services has increased in the digital market.
Synonyms
Buying and selling goods and services on a large scale
Activities that handle and record buying and selling of investments for a company
Compounds
Buying or selling company shares using secret information not available to the public
- Specialized
A large open area in a stock or commodity market where traders buy and sell
- Specialized
A way of buying and selling large amounts of stocks using computer programs
- Archaic
A small paper token shops give customers to collect and exchange for goods
- Specialized
Activities that handle and record buying and selling of investments for a company
- Formal
Rules a government makes about buying and selling goods with other countries
How Active
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trading comes from trade, which originally meant a 'path' or 'track' and is related to tread ('to step'). Imagine merchants walking the same paths to move goods — that image helps explain why trade came to mean 'buying and selling', so trading is the activity of doing that.