Traders Glossary

Your quick reference guide to essential trading terms and concepts

This page provides all the terms and definitions that are used in Forex trading. For ease of use, all glossary terminology was divided into groups by letter.

Algorithmic Trading

Arbitrage

Aussie

Asian Session

Ask Price

Broker

Bond

Base Currency

Bucket Shop

Back-Testing

Bollinger Bands

Bull Market

Bear Market

Black Swan Event

Bearish Reversal

Bullish Reversal

Breakout

Bullish Sentiment

Bearish Sentiment

Boiler Room

Balance

Bid Price

Commodity

CFDs (Contracts for Difference)

Currency Pair

Coincident Indicator

CPI (Consumer Price Index)

Candlestick Chart

Chart Pattern

Closing Order

Carry Trade

Commission

Currency Calculator

Cable

Derivative

Day Trading

Dove

Dealing Desk

Economic Indicator

Entry Order

Exponential Moving Average (EMA)

Economic Calendar (term)

Expert Advisors

European Session

Equity

ECN (Electronic Communication Network)

Futures

Fundamental Analysis

FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee)

Fibonacci Retracements

Front Running

Free Margin

Floating Profit and Loss

FxPro cTrader (term)

FxPro MetaTrader 4/5

FxPro VPS (Virtual Private Server)

FxPro Wallet

Forward

Foreign Exchange Market

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

Good for the Day

GTC (Good Till Cancelled)

GTD (Good Till Date/Time)

Hedge

Hot Money

Hawk

Industrial Production

Ichimoku Kinkō Hyō

Index

Jawboning

Kiwi

Long Position

Leading Indicator

Lagging Indicator

Leverage

Loonie

Laissez-Faire

Lost Decade

Lot

Latency

Liquidity

Market Maker (MM)

Minimum Bid Rate

Market Order

Margin

Margin Level

Margin Call

MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)

Momentum

Margin Calculator (term)

Market Depth

Mini Lot

Micro lot

NFP (Non-Farm Payroll)

No Dealing Desk (NDD)

North American Session

Option

Order

Oscillator

Position Trader

Portfolio

PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index)

PPI (Producer Price Index)

Price Channel

Pivot Point

Pending Order

Profit and Loss Ratio (P&L Ratio)

Pip

Pip Value

Parabolic SAR

Pip Calculator (term)

Petrodollar

Period

Reserve Currency

Retracement

Retail Sales

Resistance Level

Risk Appetite

Risk Aversion

Risk Capital

Rollover

RSI (Relative Strength Index)

Reversal

Rally

Real Body

Re-quote

Stock

Short Position

Support Level

Stop-Loss Order

Swing Trading

Scalping

Stochastic Oscillator

Simple Moving Average (SMA)

Sentiment Indicator

Signal Line

Swissy

Spike

Swap

STP (Straight-Through Processing)

Sentiment

Spot

Spread

Slippage

Spot Rate

Technical Analysis (term)

Technical Indicator

Trend

Trade Balance

Trade Surplus

Trade Deficit

Trend Line (term)

Take Profit Order

Trailing Stop

TradingView platform

Tick

Trading Session Timetable

VWAP Execution

Volatility

Velocity

Yuppy

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