How to Use trader in a Sentence

trader

noun
  • She is a stock trader.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And for traders, going all in on Equinor brings a different set of problems.
    Priscila Azevedo Rocha, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
  • The traders who once thronged the Financial District have moved uptown.
    Phillip A. Jackson, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
  • And in the bond market, traders and central bankers drove longer-term yields below 1 percent.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Following the release of the Fed's rate projections, traders on Wall Street upped their bets for cuts in 2024.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The weak economic data pushed traders to build bets that the Fed may end up holding rates steady next week.
    Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Four years later, white trader John Kinzie purchased the land.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 25 June 2021
  • This will keep traders on edge as more data trickles out next week and early next month.
    Hardika Singh, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2023
  • On Wall Street, traders celebrated the prospect of lower rates ahead.
    Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Her father was a horse trader; her mother left when Smith was still two years old.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • These force traders to sell their assets at market price to settle their debts and help push the asset’s price even lower.
    Tanaya MacHeel,dylan Butts, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Volatility gripped markets as traders closed out a dismal February that wiped out some gains.
    John Towfighi, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025

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