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• Profit taking is the sale of securities after a rapid price increase to cash in on gains.

  Profit taking sometimes causes a temporary market downturn after a period of rising prices as investors sell off shares to lock in their gains.

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  Profit taking. (n.d.). Yahoo Personal Finance Glossary. Retrieved June 9, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/profit-taking.

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  "Profit taking." Yahoo Personal Finance Glossary. Yahoo Finance. 9 June. 2023 http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/profit-taking.

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