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Learn the essential trading and investment terminology. Our glossary covers all key terms used in copy trading, PAMM, network marketing, and financial markets.

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A

Account

Account monitoring

Active client

ADP Employment Report

Arbitrage

Ask price

Asset

Asset allocation

Asian session

ASX SPI 200 Index (AUS200)

B

Balance

Bank of Canada

Bank of England

Bank of Japan

Bank rate

Bar chart

Base currency

Basis Point

Bear

Bear market

Bearish candlestick

Bid price

C

CABLE

CAC 40 Index (FRA40)

Candlestick chart

Central bank

CFD

Chart

Chart pattern

Closed position

Commission

Commodity

Cross rate

Currency pair

D

Dash

DAX Index (GER40)

Day order

Day trading

Dealer

Dealing desk

Deflation

Demo account

Deposit

Drawdown

E

Easing

ECN

ECN broker

Economic calendar

Economic indicator

Elliott wave principle

Equity

Exchange rate

Execution

Expert Advisor (EA)

F

Factory orders

Falling wedge

Fast market

Federal reserve (Fed)

Fibonacci

Fill

Fill or kill (FOK) order

Floating spread

Forex

Fundamental analysis

G

G20

G7

GBP

Gold

Gold standard

Good till canceled (GTC) order

Grid trading

Gross domestic product (GDP)

H

Hawk (ish)

Head and Shoulders

Hedge fund

Hedging

High-frequency trading (HFT)

I

IBEX 35 Index (ESP35)

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo

Illiquid market

Implied volatility (IV)

Index

Indirect quote

Inflation

Industrial production

J

Japanese candles

K

Kagi chart

Kiwi

L

Lagging indicators

Latency

Leading indicators

Leverage

Liability

Limit order

Line chart

Liquidity

Liquidity provider

Lot

M

Maintenance period

Majors

Margin

Margin call

Margin level

Market capitalisation

Market close

Market correction

Market depth

Market gap

N

Nasdaq-100 Index (NAS100)

Negative balance protection

Net position

News trading

NIKKEI 225 Index (JPN225)

No dealing desk (NDD)

Nonfarm payrolls (NFP)

O

Offer

Offshore

OHLC chart

Open order

Open position

Options

Order

Oscillators

Over-the-counter (OTC)

Overbought

P

Parabolic SAR indicator

Parity price

Pending order

Pip

Pipette

Pivot points

Platinum

Position trading

Price action

Q

Quantitative easing (QE)

Quote currency

R

Rally

Range

Rate of change (ROC)

Real account

Realised profit

Regulated market

Relative strength index (RSI)

Requote

Resistance

Risk management

S

S&P 500 (SPX500)

Safe haven

Scalping

Segregated accounts

Sell limit

Sell stop

Sentiment

Slippage

Spread

Stop loss

Stop out

Support

Swap

T

Take profit order

Technical analysis

Technical indicators

Tick

Tick chart

Trade

Trading instrument

Trading platform

Trailing stop

Trend

U

U.S. Dollar

U.S. Dollar index (USDX)

Unemployment rate

Undervalued

Upside

Uptick

V

Valid order

Valuation

Volatility

Volume

Volume-weighted average price (VWAP)

W

Wallet

Whipsaw

Wire transfer

Withdrawal

WTO

X

XAGUSD

XAUUSD

XBRUSD

XTIUSD

Y

Yield

Z

Zig Zag Indicator

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