Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To buy and sell securities too frequently, resulting in excessive volatility or high transaction costs.
- intransitive verb To exceed the ability of a business to finance its operations by increasing sales too rapidly.
- intransitive verb To buy and sell securities in (a market) too frequently.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To purchase goods or lay in a stock beyond the means of payment, the needs of the community, or one's means of disposal to advantage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
trade beyond one'scapital ; tobuy goods beyond themeans ofpaying for orselling them; tooverstock themarket .
Etymologies
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Examples
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• We will continue to show the greatest commitment to Fairtrade in the UK, remaining second to none in terms of availability and overtrade, and will now aim that if a primary commodity from the developing world can be Fairtrade, it will be Fairtrade by 2013
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The cheaper and easier credit is, the greater the incentive to overtrade to cash in.
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The cheaper and easier credit is, the greater the incentive to overtrade to cash in.
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Over the local institutions the Bank of the United States always exercised a salutary control, checking any disposition to overtrade by restraining their issues and holding them to a proper specie reserve; and this by no other interference except its countenance or ill favor, as such banks severally observed or disregarded the ordinary rules of financial prudence.
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens
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No; never a whit, as long as the South continued to overtrade to the North.
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While handing over trading authority may sound dangerous, because portfolio managers don't work on commission, they aren't tempted to overtrade to line their own pockets.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JOHN HEINZL 2011
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In addition to helping traders who are afraid to "pull the trigger", automated trading can curb those who are apt to overtrade - buying and selling at every perceived opportunity.
unknown title 2011
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Though we shall be neutrals, and as such shall derive considerable pecuniary advantages, yet I think we shall lose in happiness and morals by being launched again into the ocean of speculation, led to overtrade ourselves, tempted to become sea-robbers under French colors, and to quit the pursuits of agriculture, the surest road to affluence and best preservative of morals.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) Thomas Jefferson 1784
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One of the benefits of this strategy is that you don't overtrade because daily price fluctuations aren't part of the picture.
Fool.com Headlines Todd Wenning 2010
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One of the benefits of this strategy is that you don't overtrade because daily price fluctuations aren't part of the picture.
Fool.com Headlines Todd Wenning 2010
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