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Cash or spot: vivo rates or market platform. The agreement term value transactions without completion but a starting price.
Fundamental Analysis: discipline that seeks to understand and evaluate the true value of financial instruments relying on the causes that influence the composition of the price, that is, its value as a commercial utility or value based on future performance is expected.
Technical Analysis is a test whose outcome is likely to forecast future movements prices, is the study of market action, primarily through the use of graphics, in order to predict future price trends.
Leverage (Leverage): The amount, expressed as multiples, for which the final amount exceeds the actual surgery reversed. You can also call a batch size equals $ 100K $ 100.000 and the required margin is $ 1,000, the operator can perform to 100 times the size of its low-margin capital. ($ 100.000 / $ 1.000).
For investors, leverage means to increase profit in value without increasing investment.
Arbitration: operate in two or more markets simultaneously to exploit a temporary positive fluctuation offsetting losses in one another and make a profit. ASK. The price or the rate at which the operator is willing to sell a currency or other financial instrument.
Central Bank (Central Bank): The principal monetary authority of a nation controlled by the national government. He is responsible for issuing currency, setting monetary policy, interest rates, the policies of exchange rates and sector regulation and supervision of private banks, the Federal Reserve is the Central Bank of the States together. Others include The Bank European Central Bank of England and the Bank of Japan.
Bid: The price at which the market agrees to purchase a specific currency pair.
Cable (Cable): techniques used by traders to refer to the British Pound exchange rate Pound Sterling / U.S. dollar. The term was first used because the rate was originally transmitted via a transatlantic cable initially to mid-1800. Coverage
Margin (Margin Call): request additional funds or other security, a broker or dealer, to increase the margin at a level necessary to ensure implementation in a position that has moved against the customer.
conversion (conversion): is the process by which assets and liabilities denominated in one currency are exchanged for assets or liabilities denominated in another currency.
(Day Trading): Opening and Closing one or more positions in one day.
Devaluation: Decline in value of the currency of a country relative to the currencies of other countries. When a country devalues \u200b\u200bits currency, imported goods become more expensive, while exports become less expensive abroad and thus, more competitive.
Spread (Spread): The difference between the selling price and buying a currency and is used to measure market liquidity. Lower spreads mean higher liquidity.
(Drawdown) consecutive loss is the market operations and their potential impact on the income statement, generally measured in an examination of possibilities or statistical analysis of reliability of system operations.
Hedge Fund (Hedge fund): This is a fund of unregulated private investment for large investment (starting with a minimum of 1 million Dollars) specializing in high-risk, short-term speculation on bonds, currencies, stock options and derivatives.
Hedge Fund (Hedge fund): This is a fund of unregulated private investment for large investment (starting with a minimum of $ 1 million) specializing in high-risk, short-term speculation on bonds , currencies, stock options and derivatives. G7: The seven most industrialized countries such as United States, Germany, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Italy.
G10: The members of the G7 plus Belgium, Netherlands and Sweden, is an associate group takes part in the discussions of the International Monetary Fund. Switzerland is sometimes involved.
(Hedging) Hedging Strategy: A strategy designed to reduce the risk of investing used to require options, enter positions, short selling, or futures contracts. The coverage may help to lock in profits. The purpose is to reduce the volatility of a portfolio by reducing the risk of loss.
Interbank rates: The prices at which large international banks change their currency with other large international banks.
Liquidity (Liquidity): The ability of a market to accept large transactions. Depending volume and activity in a market. Is the efficiency and effectiveness of the prices with which positions can be operated and executed orders. A more liquid market will provide more frequent price quotes as the smallest differential of purchase / sale.
Limit Order (Limit Order): A limit order of entry into a specific position is programmed to ensure the profits of a position. A limit order set to input a buy position is an order of sale. A stop limit order remains in effect until the position is liquidated or canceled by the customer.
(Long bull): Position buying large volumes of coins to sell both to carry out an assessment of value if the market price increases.
Margin (Margin): Customers must deposit funds as collateral to cover any potential losses from adverse movements in prices. Currency (Currency): It is the unity of a country's exchange issued by their government or central bank, whose market value is basic.
Forex (Foreign Exchange Forex): The simultaneous buying of one currency and selling another at a counter market.
Base Currency: The base currency is the first currency in a pair coins, and a currency that determines the price of a currency pair is called a party. Knowing the base currency is important as determining the value of currency (national or real) exchanged when a foreign exchange contract is negotiated.
The Euro is the currency most used database against all other currencies. As a result, currency pairs against the Euro will be identified as EUR / USD, EUR / GBP, EUR / CHF, EUR / JPY, EUR / CAD, etc..
British Pound is next in the hierarchy of currencies. The major currency pairs against the British Pound could be identified as GBP / USD, GBP / CHF, GBP / JPY, GBP / CAD. The U.S. dollar is the base currency following predominant. USD / CAD, USD / JPY, USD / CHF would be the normal currency pair according to the major currencies, the dollar quoted as EUR / USD and GBP / USD. Orders
entry (Entry Orders) Order executed when a specific price level is reached and / or penetrated. The execution is handled by the table and what is in effect until canceled by the customer.
Entry Limit Orders (Limit Entry Orders): are commands that are executed when the price reaches a coin (no grazing) a specific level. The customer places the order after considering the specific level is reached, the price will move in the direction opposed to their previous times. Oscillators
oscillators are mathematical models applied to the price action, based on some specific comments on market behavior. Usually plotted below the graph of contributions, either as lines or histograms, and measure the strength of trends and movements in the price. When detected weakness in the trend, is suspected to be close to being reversed.
Because they are calculated almost exclusively by computers and information systems in real time, some oscillators have no common name in English. Although there are an infinite number of oscillators the main ones are:
Time, Stochastic, MACD, RSI, etc.
point or Pip: term used in currency markets to represent the smallest change possible for a currency pair in question. Eg EUR / USD = 1.2200, a fluctuation of 1 pip equals 0.0001 and USDJPY = 111.28, a fluctuation of 0.01 is 1 pip.
Position (position): A clear vision of a trader to buy or sell currencies, and may also refer to the amount of money they have or to be an investor. Prima
or interest cost of financing (cost of carry): The cost or benefit associated with continuing operations open overnight, calculated using the interest rate differential in the short term between the two currencies that make up the currency pair.
Revaluation (Revaluation): Increased exchange rate of a currency set by other currencies or gold.
revaluation rates (Revaluation rates): The rate for any period or currency which is used to revalue a position or book. The revaluation of rates are the rates used in the market when a trader runs an end-of-day to stabilize gains or losses on the day.
(Rollover) Renegotiation: When settlement of the operation is extended to another date with the cost of this process based on the differential in interest rates of the two currencies. A change overnight, specifically the next business day against the following business day.
support and resistance concepts of support and resistance are key technical analysis of financial markets. A support level is below the current price, which is expected to surpass buying power of sale, so a bullish momentum will be deterred. Typically, a support is a minimum previously achieved.
A resistance is the opposite concept to a support. Is the area above the current price at which the sales force will exceed the purchase, ending the upward momentum, and therefore the price will tend to recede. The resistors are commonly identified on a graph as a previous peak reached by the price.
(Swaps) Swap: A currency swap is an operation that combined spot and forward transactions in a single negotiation.
(Market Order) Market Order: is the order to buy or sell at the price of the base currency vivo.
(Entry Stop Order) Stop Entry Order: Orders executed when the currency price breaks a specific level. The customer places the order considering that when the currency price breaches the specific level, the price will continue in that direction.
(Stop-loss Orders) Stop Loss Orders: An order input connected to a specific position to stop position thereby avoiding incurring additional losses. A stop loss order placed in a buyer position is a stop entry order to sell that position. A stop loss order remains in effect until the position is liquidated or canceled by the customer.
Market Size and Liquidity
The ten most active traders account for nearly 73% of trading volume, according to The Wall Street Journal Europe (2/9/06 p. 20)
These large international banks provide the market with price bid (buy) and ask (sell). The offer bid (buy) / ask (sell) is the difference between the price at which a bank or market maker will sell ("ask" or "offer") and the price at which a market-maker will buy ("Offer") to a wholesale customer.
These offers may not apply to retail customers at banks, which routinely mark up the difference to say 1.2100/1.2300 for transfers, or 1.2000/1.2400 for banknotes or travelers checks.
point prices market makers vary, but on EUR / USD, even at times of high volatility are usually not more than 5 pips wide (ie 0.0005). This difference, known as "spread" also depends on the brokerage in which it operates.
Recently, some Forex brokers have expanded the options box and made it possible to operate with metals, indices, food and other resources.
exchange Cross (Cross Rates): The exchange rate between two currencies. It's called cross rate not to be common in the country where the currency pair is quoted. For example, in United States, a GBP / CHF would be considered as a cross rate, whereas in the United Kingdom or Switzerland would be one of the primary currency pairs operated.
fixed exchange rate (Fixed Exchange rate): is a country's decision to freeze the value of its currency against the currencies of other countries, gold (or other product), or set of coins. In practice, even fixed exchange rates can fluctuate between upper and lower bands, which can lead to intervention.
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