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round trip definition - finance
The opening purchase or sale of a stock or futures contract and the subsequent opposite and closing transaction in the same contract. Transaction costs are usually quoted on a round-trip basis.

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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