Forex Glossary

To increase your understanding of trading terminology, we have gathered the most important terms and definitions that you may encounter on your trading journey.

Abandoned Baby
Absolute Drawdown
Account History
Accumulation/Distribution
Actionary Waves
ADP Non-Farm Employment Change
Affiliate
Aggregation
Algorithmic Trading
Alligator
Altcoin
Appreciation
Arbitrage
Ascending Trendline
Asian Session
Ask
Ask Rate
Asset
Asset Allocation
At the Money
ATR (Average True Range)
Attorney in charge
AUD
Aussie
Authorized Dealer
Automated trading system
Average Hourly Earnings
Buy Order
Buy Limit
Business Confidence
Business Climate
Bushel
Bundesbank
Bullish Reversal
Bullish
Bull Trap
Bull Market
Bull Candle
Building Permits
Building Approvals
Broker
Brent Oil
Breakaway Gap
Breakaway (bullish)
Breakaway (bearish)
Break Even
Bottom
Bond Yield
Bond
Bollinger Bands
Blue Chip
Blockchain
Cable
CAD
Caixin Manufacturing PMI
Candlestick Chart
Capacity Utilization
Capital Expenditure
Capital Gains
Capital Loss
Carry-over Charge
Cash Flow
CB Consumer Confidence
Centred Moving Average
Central Bank
Central Bank Intervention
CFD (Contract for Difference)
CFTC (Commodities Futures Trading Commission)
Channels
Chart
Chartist
CHF
Chicago PMI
Choppy Market
Claimant Count - UK
Cleared Funds
Client Terminal
Closed Position
Closing Market Rate
Closing Price
CNY
Collateral
Commission
Commodities Futures Trading Commission
Commodity
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Continuing Jobless Claims
Contract Market
Contrarian Trading
Convergence
Core Consumer Price Index
Core Durable Goods Orders
Core Retail Sales
Correction
Corrective Wave
Cost of Living Index
Counter Currency
Cover
Credit risk
Cross Rate
Crude Oil
Crude Oil Inventories
Cryptocurrency
Currency
Currency Appreciation
Currency Pair
Currency Peg
Cycle Lines
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC)
Daily Chart
Danish Krone (DKK)
DAX
Day Order
Day Trading
Deficit
Deflation
Derivative
Demo Account
Depression
Depreciation
Depth of Market
Direct Quote
Derivative
Discretionary Trading
Discount rate
Discretionary Account
Divergence
Dividend
DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average)
DKK
Doji
Double Bottom
Double Top
Dovish
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dow Theory
Downtrend Channel
Drawdown
Durable Goods
Durable Goods Orders
Earnings per Share (EPS):
Easing
Effective exchange rate
Elliott Wave
ECN Broker
Electronic Order
Electronic Trading Systems
Equity
Exchange Rate
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)
Execution
Expert Advisor
Expiry time/date
Exposure
Failure Swing
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
Federal Reserve (The)
Fed's Monetary Policy Statement (FOMC Statement)
Fibonacci
Fibonacci numbers and ratios
Fibonacci Retracement
Fill
Fill or Kill
Financial Instrument
Flat
Floating Exchange Rate
Floor Trader
FOMC Funds Rate
FOMC Meeting Minutes
Force Index
Forex
Forex Chart
Forex Scalping
Forint (HUF)
Forward rate
Fractals
Fundamental Analysis
Futures Contract
G20 Meeting
Gap
GBP
GDP
German Flash Services/Manufacturing PMI
German Ifo Business Climate
German Retail Sales
German ZEW Economic Sentiment
Go Long
Go Short
Golden Cross
Good till Cancelled (GTC)
Goods Trade Balance
Grid
Gross Domestic Product (GDP
Gross Loss
Gross National Product (GNP)
Gross Profit
Halifax HPI
Hammer
Harami
Hard Currency
Hawkish
Head and Shoulders
Hedge
High Frequency Trading
High Price
HKD
Housing Starts
Halifax HPI
Hammer
Harami
Hard Currency
Hawkish
Head and Shoulders
Hedge
High Frequency Trading
High Price
HKD
Housing Starts
January Barometer
Japanese Candlesticks
Japanese Yen (JPY)
JOLTS Job Openings
K Wave (Kondratieff Cycle)
Kill
Kitchin Wave
Kiwi
Labour Productivity
Latency
Leverage
Limit Order
Line Chart
Linear Regression Channel
Liquidity (Liquid Market)
Litecoin
Long
Long Position
Loonie
Lot
Low Price
Maintenance Margin
Make a market
Managed float
Margin
Margin Call
Market Order
Market Rate
Market Risk
Micro Lot
Microeconomics
Momentum
Moving Averages
Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)
NASDAQ
Net Performance
New Home Sales
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
News (Tab)
NFP (Non-Farm Payroll Report)
Nikkei
No Dealing Desk
Noise
Nominal Value
Norwegian Krone (NOK)
OPEC
Open
Open Position
Open Price
Open order
Opening Range
Open Trade Equity
Oscillator
OTC (Over the Counter)
Out of the Money
Overnight Position
Overtrading
Overbought
Oversold
Payout
Pip (Percentage in points)
Pivot Points
Pit
Platform
Position
Position Limit
Principal Value
Product Price Index
Profit Taking
Pump and Dump
Quantitative Easing
Quote Currency
Range
Rate
Relative Strength Index
Reportable Positions
Resistance
Risk Capital
Risk Management
Scalping
Security
Segregated Account
Selling rate
Settlement Price
Shooting star
Short
Slippage
Speculators
Spot
Spread
Spike
Stochastic
Stock
Stop Loss Order
Support
Take Profit Order (T/P)
Technical Analysis
Tick
Three crows
Three white soldiers
Trader
Trailing stop
Transaction Date
Trade Balance

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