How to Use day trader in a Sentence

day trader

noun

• And so in 2002, Josh Brolin, the movie star, began working as a day trader.
  — New York Times, 20 June 2018
• Back in 2015, day traders used this sector to play the broader market.
  — Shuli Ren | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 July 2019
• In other words, Walmart wants you, yes, you, the day trader who’s been priced out of the stock, to get in on the action.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
• Many would-be day traders are about to start paying their student loans again.
  — Amina Niasse, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2023
• As was the case with GameStop, day trader interest in Clabo has since slipped, and the share price has given back half its gains.
  — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2021
• Badgett left Afghanistan, returned to the United States and became a day trader.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Jan. 2018
• The day trader marks the franchise's second Black Bachelor, with Matt James being the first.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
• Market timing is dangerous and best left to day traders and those with crystal balls.
  — WSJ, 16 June 2019
• Pinstripes are typically the province of mob bosses and day traders—the kind of guys who want their suits to speak loudly for them.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 16 Mar. 2018
• Portnoy has recently made a name for himself on Wall Street as a day trader.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 1 July 2020
• What mattered was whether these companies and the SPACs that gobbled them up could craft slide decks snazzy enough to pique the interest of overnight day traders cooped up in their homes.
  — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 20 June 2024
• The story explained the factors at play that would make a millennial quit his or her job to become a day trader.
  — Keira Wingate, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
• The all-stock takeover, announced Thursday, will combine a Wall Street firm in the late innings of a decadelong turnaround with a discount broker built on the backs of dot-com day traders.
  — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2020
• Marie-Noelle Levin, an actress and day trader, pulled up on a bicycle, dressed entirely in fur.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2018
• Unlike the meme stocks, other favorite asset classes for day traders have performed well this year.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• China still has a large army of day traders, as the American embassy can attest, but institutions have led a shift in money from small-cap firms to blue-chip stocks.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• To see what euphoria looks like, consider the dot-com boom, when day traders were bragging about getting rich quickly and investors were scrambling to join them.
  — Stan Choe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2017
• Wess Philome, a local activist and day trader, pointed out the virus' outsized effect on people of color and people in low-wage jobs who can't afford to take time off work.
  — Pam Louwagie, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
• Phillip Hawkins, a single 29-year-old video editor and day trader from Baldwin Hills, had a similar nonanswer.
  — Lz Granderson, ajc, 16 Apr. 2020
• The nation’s 350 million young people are morphing into day traders.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2019
• Any indicator tied to the big tech stocks shows how sentiment is extremely positive, aided by the return of the day trader.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2020
• Rhonda's mother doesn't believe a word of Nichols' story, saying the insurance was all his idea and that Nichols, the day trader, had an ulterior motive.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2018
• Mark Barton, a day trader, killed nine people at two Atlanta trading firms in 1999 after losing a bunch of money on internet stocks.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• Grant fell in love with lead Jenn Tran, but unfortunately for the 30-year-old day trader living in Houston, that connection was not mutual.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2024
• The bunker and the secrecy around it were the obsession of Daniel Beckwitt, a then-26-year-old day trader and computer hacker who lived alone upstairs, worried North Korean missiles could soon be on the way.
  — Dan Morse, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
• The service helped promote the sale of home computers and transformed amateur Wall Street buffs into professional day traders.
  — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• This last period is marked by fearless behavior, the entry into the market of unskilled day traders and, ominously, the likelihood of a coming crash.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Houstonian Grant Ellis, a 30-year-old day trader, is the newest Bachelor looking for love.
  — Shafaq Patel, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
• Le went on to become a wedding coordinator and Lioe a business investor and day trader.
  — Hang Nguyen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
• Buying across the group of stocks markedly outpaced sales with chatter in popular day trader chatrooms pumping up the outlook for the movie theater and homes-good retailer.
  — Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024