retail investor

retail investor definition - finance
A private investor who typically trades securities in relatively small quantities for his or her own account. Retail investors contrast with businesses or institutional accounts that trade millions of dollars at one time.

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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