profit taking
Selling after gains
Profit taking is selling an investment after its price has risen, converting paper gains into actual money.
The term usually appears in financial reporting to explain why a stock or market declined after a run-up: The index fell 2% on profit taking.
It implies the selling reflects investors cashing in rather than negative news about the investment itself.
Rapid mass divestiture
- scalpingResale at inflated prices
- day tradingSame-session securities speculation
- swing tradingMulti-day position speculation
- exit strategyPreplanned departure method
stop-loss · realization · short selling · market order · liquidation · speculation · momentum · arbitrage
Grasping what's true
- gainsIncreases in value
- capital gainsProfit from asset sales
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- harvestingGathering mature crops
exit strategy · divestment · returns · yield · wealth accumulation · risk management · asset allocation · financial planning
sell-off
Rapid mass divestiture
- scalpingResale at inflated prices
- day tradingSame-session securities speculation
- swing tradingMulti-day position speculation
exit strategy · stop-loss · realization · short selling · market order · liquidation · speculation · momentum · arbitrage · cash out
realization
Grasping what's true
- gainsIncreases in value
- capital gainsProfit from asset sales
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
harvesting · exit strategy · divestment · returns · yield · wealth accumulation · risk management · asset allocation · financial planning · shareholder value
- investingstocks, stock, bonds, investing, investor
- stock marketstock, shares, stocks, trading, stock market
- investing strategydiversification, asset allocation, risk management, rebalancing, risk tolerance
- payoutspayout, disbursement, dividend, cash prize, reimbursement
- market downturnscorrection, decline, dip, downturn, pullback
- market movementsup, down, rising, falling, increase
profit takingbuying
Obtaining through payment
accumulation · dollar-cost averaging · market entry · doubling down · reinvesting
profit, taking, profits, profitable, profitably, profitability, profiteer, profiteering, nonprofit