Usually means: Selling assets to realize gains.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. profit taking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. profit taking: Merriam-Webster
  3. profit-taking, profit taking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. profit taking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Profit-Taking, Profit-taking, profit-taking: Wordnik
  6. profit-taking, profit taking: Wiktionary
  7. profit taking: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. profit-taking, profit taking: Dictionary.com
  9. Profit taking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. profit-taking, profit taking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. profit taking: Finance-Glossary.com
  4. Profit Taking: Investopedia
  5. Profit taking: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  7. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (profit taking)

▸ noun:  (finance) The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.

Similar:
profit-taking, profiting, profitmongering, prof, money-making, profit motive, take, cashout, investment, resale, more...

Types:
stop-loss order, limit order, trailing stop, market order, stop order, more...

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Similar:
profit-taking, profiting, profitmongering, prof, money-making, profit motive, take, cashout, investment, resale, more...

Types:
stop-loss order, limit order, trailing stop, market order, stop order, more...



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