profit-taking
Harvesting investment gains
Profit-taking is selling an investment after its price has risen, converting paper gains into actual money.
The term appears often in financial news to explain market dips: The stock fell 3% on profit-taking after last week's rally.
It implies no negative judgment—investors are simply cashing in gains rather than holding for more.
Rapid mass divestiture
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- pullbackWithdrawal or reduction
- pressureForce upon contact
- declineDecrease or refuse
reversal · downturn · bearish · distribution · slump · retraction · volatility · resistance
Increases in value
- proceedsRevenue from a transaction
- returnsProfits from investments
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- capital gainsProfit from asset sales
windfall · surplus · reward · dividends · appreciation · upside · earnings · payout
Trading for payment
- cashing outConverting assets to cash
- locking inFixing firmly in place
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- realizationGrasping what's true
exit · capitalizing · unwinding · crystallization · monetization · trimming · reduction · divestment
sell-off
Rapid mass divestiture
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- pullbackWithdrawal or reduction
- pressureForce upon contact
decline · reversal · downturn · bearish · distribution · slump · retraction · volatility · resistance · consolidation
gains
Increases in value
capital gains · windfall · surplus · reward · dividends · appreciation · upside · earnings · payout
selling
Trading for payment
- cashing outConverting assets to cash
- locking inFixing firmly in place
- harvestingGathering mature crops
realization · exit · capitalizing · unwinding · crystallization · monetization · trimming · reduction · divestment · encashment
- market movesdip, drop, decline, correction, reversal
profit-takingbuying
Obtaining through payment
accumulation · reinvesting · dollar-cost averaging · going long · loading up
profit, taking, profits, profitable, profitability, profitably, unprofitable, profiteer, profiteering