profit taking

profit taking definition - finance
Selling an investment whose price has appreciated in order to capitalize on the difference between the price at which the investment was bought and the investmentÂ’s appreciated value. It often is used to explain why a market has moved lower after a sustained period of moving higher.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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