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program trading
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program trading
n.
Large-scale, computer-assisted trading of stocks or other securities according to systems in which decisions to buy and sell are triggered automatically by fluctuations in price.

program trader n.

program trading
n
(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Stock Exchange) trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
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Noun1.program trading - a trading technique involving large blocks of stock with trades triggered by computer programs
trading - buying or selling securities or commodities


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When we did our first computer-driven program trade in excess of $50 million.
How embarrassing then that one of their trader whippersnappers put through a program trade at 8.
But Laszlo Birinyi, president of Birinyi Associates, a research firm that tracks program trading, said program trades only accelerated a trend that was already in the market.
 
 
 
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