profit taking

See also: profit-taking

English

Noun

profit taking (countable and uncountable, plural profit takings)

1. (finance) The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.

   Antonym: buying the dip

   The stock market was down today amid profit taking, the share holders wanted to get some of the increase in stock price as cash while they could.

See also

• buy low, sell high