Speculation
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Speculation is the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from short or medium term fluctuations in the market value of a tradable good.
See also
- Adventurer
- Behavioral finance
- Black Wednesday
- Carbon credits
- Currency crisis
- Currency transaction tax
- DeFazio financial transaction tax
- Equity investment
- European crime
- Fictitious capital
- Financial markets
- Financial regulatory reform
- Day trading
- George Soros
- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
- Seasonal traders
- Short selling
- Slippage (finance)
- Spahn tax
- Speculative Attack
- Stock market bubble
- Stock trader
- Tobin tax
- Tulip mania
- Volcker Rule
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