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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: Trader's Glossary Definition 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

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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

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