scalper

scalper definition - finance
A speculator in the futures market who trades in order to make a small profit from small upticks and downticks in prices. Often local traders, who are those who trade for their own accounts, are scalpers.

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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