FOREX GLOSSARY
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A
B
C
- Cable
- CAD
- Call Option
- Canadian Ivey Purchasing Managers (CIPM)
- Candlestick Chart
- Capitulation
- Carry trade
- Cash Market
- Cash Price
- CBS
- Central Bank
- CFDS
- Chartist
- Choppy
- Cleared funds
- Clearing
- Closed Position
- Closing
- Closing price
- Collateral
- Commission
- Commodity Currencies
- Components
- COMPX
- Confirmation
- Consolidation
- Construction spending
- Contagion
- Contract
- Contract note
- Contract size
- Controlled risk
- Convergence of MAS
- Corporate action
- Corporates
- Counter currency
- Country risk
- CPI
- Crater
- Cross
- Crown currencies
- CTAS
- Currency
- Currency pair
- Currency risk
- Currency Symbols
- Current account
D
E
F
G
- G7
- G8
- Gap or Gapping
- Gearing (also known as leverage)
- GER40
- Given
- Giving it up
- Going long
- Going short
- Gold (Gold’s relationship)
- Gold certification
- Gold contract
- Good ’til cancelled order (GTC order)
- Good ‘Til Date (GTD)
- Good for day
- Greenback
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Gross National Product (GNP)
- Guaranteed order
- Guaranteed stop
- Gunning / Gunned
I
L
M
O
P
R
S
- SEC
- Sector
- Sell
- Settlement
- SHGA.X
- Short position
- Short squeeze
- Short-covering
- Shorts
- Sidelines / Sit on hands
- Slippage
- Slippery
- Sloppy
- SNB
- SOFR
- SONIA
- Sovereign names
- Spot Market
- Spot Price
- Spot trade
- Spread
- SPX500
- Square
- Sterling
- Stock exchange
- Stock index
- Stop entry order
- Stop order
- Stop-loss hunting
- Stop-loss order
- Stops building
- Strike price
- Support levels
- Suspended trading
- Swap
- Swissie
T
- T/P
- Take profit (TP)
- Takeover
- Technical analysis
- Technicians / Techs
- TEN (10) YR
- Thin
- Thirty (30) YR
- Tick (size)
- Time to maturity
- Tokyo session
- Tomorrow next (TOM/NEXT)
- Trade balance
- Trade size
- Trading bid
- Trading halt
- Trading heavy
- Trading offered
- Trading range
- Trailing stop
- Transaction cost
- Transaction date
- Trend
- Turnover
- Two-way price
- TYO10
U
- UK Average Earnings Including Bonus/Excluding Bonus
- UK Claimant Count Rate
- UK HBOS House Price Index
- UK Oil
- UK Producer Price Index Input (PPI Input)
- UK Producers Price Index Output
- UK100
- Underlying
- Unemployment rate
- University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index
- Unrealised gain/loss
- Uptick
- Uptick rule
- US Oil
- US prime rate
- US30
