Positive response to dodgy trade by Yankee recently (9)
I believe the answer is:
yesterday
'recently' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'positive response to dodgy trade by yankee' is the wordplay.
'positive response' becomes 'yes' (positive response to a question).
'to dodgy' is an anagram indicator (a dodgy or wrong order of the letters).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'yankee' becomes 'Y' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'trade' with letters rearranged gives 'terda'.
'yes'+'terda'+'y'='YESTERDAY'
(Other definitions for yesterday that I've seen before include "Macartney song" , "Beatles hit - Thursday" , "'' ......... all my troubles seemed so far away'' (song)" , "Twenty-four hours ago" , "some time in the past" .)