contrarian
/kənˈtreəriən/ noun [C] FINANCE, STOCK MARKETDefinition
› an investor who does the opposite of what most other investors are doing: He is a contrarian who likes to buy stocks whose price is depressed by bad news he believes is only temporary.
(Definition of contrarian noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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