Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- intransitive v. To engage in trading to a degree that is in excess of one's finances or the demands of the market.
- transitive v. To trade (stock, for example) in this manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- intransitive v. To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them; to overstock the market.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Well, especially when the markets are choppy, if you overtrade, you could lose all of your capital.
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You overtrade winners and become excessively attached to losing positions, hoping for a
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