Forex Glossary


A
Affiliate
Arbitrage
Asset
Agio
Aggregate
Ask
Adjustable peg
Appreciation
At best
Accrual

B
Balance of Payments
Band
Basket
Bear/Bull market
Book
Bid
Broker
Base Currency

C
Cable
Carry Trade
Central bank
Commission
Commodity currency
Counterparty
Customer Margin
Currency
Cross Currency
Currency pair
Currency Forward

D
Demo Trading
Dealer
Delivery date
Daily Price Limit
Day Order
Delta

E
Economic indicator
ECU
Effective exchange rate
Exchange rate
European Monetary System
European Monetary Union (EMU)
Exotic
Electronic Order
Econometrics
Elliott wave

F
Forex Affiliate
Fast Market
Fibonacci Sequence
Fill or Kill Order
Forex (Foreign Exchange,Foreign currency)
Forex broker
Fundamentals
Futures Contract
Floor
Forex Flows

G
Gamma
Gap
Ginzy Trading
Give Up
GTC (Good ‘til canceled)
GFD (Good for the day)
Grid

H
Hard currency
"Head and shoulders"
Hit the bid

I
Inflation
Interbank Rates
Intervention
Interest arbitrage
Interest parity
Initial margin
ISDA (International Securities Dealers Association)

J
Japanese candelsticks
Jobber
Join

L
Large Traders
Leading Indicators
Leverage
LIBOR
Limit
Liquid market
Lot
Long position

M
Margin
Mini and Micro Trading
Mark-to-Market
Market Correction
Market If Touched (MIT)
Market Maker
Managed Float
Market Value
Money Pass
Moving Average

N
Narrow Market
Necessary Margin
Notional Amount
Nominal Price
Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER)

O
Offer
OTC (over the counter)
OCO (Order cancels other)
Oscillators
Opening
Original Margin
Overbought
Outward Arbitrage
Overnight
Odd lot
Offshore

P
Point and Figure Charts
Political Risk
Position
Premium
Prime Rate
Parities
Pegged
Pivot Points
Pip

Q
Quotation
Quote
Quote Currency

R
Rollover Charges
Rally
Range
Rate
Regulatory Action
Resistance
Resting Order
Revaluation
Ring
Risk

S
Stop loss order
Spread
Scalper
Selling Rate
Short
Slippage
Speculator
Spot
Stable Market
Stagflation
Swap

T
Technical Analysis
Traders
Trend
Trendline
Two-Way Price
Trading the News
Trading Divergence

U
Uncovered
Under valuation
Uptick
US Prime Forex rate
U.S. Dollar Index (USDX)

V
Value Date
Variable Price Limit
Volume
Volatility
Vostro account

W
Wash Sale
Whipsaw
Working day

Y
Yard
Yield
Yield to Maturity