scalping
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Recommending a security while secretly intending to sell one's own holdings into the demand the recommendation creates.
The newsletter's touts read like research until we found he was scalping every stock he pumped.
Business noun
Taking many small, rapid profits by exploiting tiny intraday price moves.
Her scalping strategy netted fractions of a cent per share but ran across millions of trades a day.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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