noise trader

English

Etymology

Derived from the financial definition of noise, formally defined in a 1986 paper by Fischer Black as "[n]oise in the sense of a large number of small events is often a cause factor much more powerful than a small number of large events can be."[1]

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Noun

noise trader (plural noise traders)

  1. (finance) One who trades financial products (such as stocks) not based on fundamental analysis.

References
  1. Fischer Black (1985 December 20) “Noise”, in The Journal of Finance, volume 41, number 3, →JSTOR, retrieved 19 May 2009, pages 529–543.

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