Flipping

The term, “Flipping” pertains to an investment strategy wherein a trader buys something with the goal of reselling for a profit usually within a short span of time. The Flipping strategy had been made popular through real estate investment. Oftentimes, Flipping is used to describe short-term real estate transactions and other trading activities by a number of investors in Initial Public Offerings. 

Within the context of Initial Coin Offerings, Flipping had went on to become a strategy of investing in digital tokens prior to being listed on cryptocurrency exchanges and then reselling them speedily for profit upon commencement of trading on exchanges within the secondary market.