trader

Example Sentences

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Brent Donnelly, now the president of Spectra Markets, was a day trader back then.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

“About some trades in iRobot and Momentive and some other things that were. Yeah a whole bunch of acquisitions,” the trader said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

If you’re a glass-half empty trader, you’ll notice that those are risk-off trades.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

It was used in closing speeches of four people who pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol in June 2020 - all four defendants were acquitted despite admitting their involvement.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Like every other asset-backed bond trader, he’d been playing a low-stakes poker game rigged in his favor, since nothing had ever gone seriously wrong in the market.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis