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FOREX GLOSSARY

A

Appreciation	Arbitrage
Ask	Asset
At Best	AUD
Aussie	Australian Dollar
Authorized Dealer	Automated Trading System

B

Balance of Payments	Balance of Trade
Band	Bank of Canada
Bank of England	Bank of Japan
Bank Rate	Bar Chart
Base Currency	Basis Point
Basket	Bear
Bear Market	Bid
Bid/Ask Spread	Big Figure
BoC	BoE
BoJ	Bollinger Bands
Broker	Buck
Bull	Bull Market
Bundesbank	Buy Limit Order
Buy On Margin

C

Cable	CAD
Canadian Dollar	Candlestick Chart
Carry	Carry Currencies
Carry Trade	Cash Market
Cash on Deposit	CBI
CCI	Central Bank
Central Bank of Iraq	Chartist
CHF	Cleared Funds
Closed Position	Commission
Consumer Confidence Index (CCI)	Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Conversion Rate	Copey
Correlation	Counterparty
CPI	Cross Rate
Currency	Currency Code
Currency Pair	Currency Risk

D

Day Order	Day Trade
Day Trader	Dealer
Dealing Desk	Dealing Systems
Deficit	Deflation
Delivery	Delivery Risk
Demo Account	Depreciation
Depth of Market	Devaluation
Dinar	Discount Broker
Dollar Rate	Domestic Rates
Donchian Channel	Drawdown
Durable Goods Order

E

ECB	ECB Conferences
ECN Broker	Economic Indicator
Equities	Equity
Escrow Account	EUR
Euribor	Euro
European Central Bank	European Monetary Unit
European Union	Excess Margin Deposits
Exchange	Exchange Rate
Execution	Exit
Exotics	Expiration Date
Exposure

F

Factory Orders	Fast Market
Fed Meetings	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Funds Rate	Federal Open Market Committee
Federal Reserve	Federal Reserve Board
Feds	Fill Price
Fiscal Policy	Fixed Exchange Rate
Flexible Exchange Rate	Floating Exchange Rate
Foreign Exchange	Foreign Exchange Center
Forex	Forward
Forward Rates	Franc
Full-Service Broker	Fundamental Analysis
Fundamentals	FX

G

G7	G8
Gap	GBP
Gearing	Good Until Cancelled
Great Britain Pound	Greenback
Gross Domestic Product	Gross National Product

H

Hedge	Hedge Fund
Holder	Hometrack Housing Survey

I

IMM	Indicative Quote
Industrial Production	Inflation
Initial Margin	Initial Margin Requirement
Interbank Market	Interest Rate
International Monetary Fund	Intra Day Position
IQD	Iraqi Dinar
ISM Manufacturing Index	ISM Non-Manufacturing

J

K

L

Large Retailers Sales	Leverage
LIBOR	Limit Order
Limit Price	Line Chart
Liquid Market	Liquidity
Long	Loonie
Lot

M

M-o-M	M1
M2	M3
M3 Money Supply	M4 Money Supply
Maintenance Margin	Major Currency
Margin	Margin Call
Mark To Market	Market Close
Market Maker	Market Order
Maturity	Mini Account
Momentum	Monetary Easing
Monetary Policy	Moving Average
MXN

N

Narrow Market	Net Consumer Credit
Net Position	New Zealand Dollar
NZD

O

Offer	One Cancels The Other Order
Open Order	Open Position
Order	Over The Counter
Overbought	Overnight Limit
Oversold

P

Partial Lot	Petrodollars
PIP	PMI Manufacturing
Position	Pound Sterling
Price	Prime Rate
Principal Value	Producer Price Index
Profit Taking

Q

R

Rally	Range
Rate	Rate of Return
Reciprocal Currency	Regulated Market
Resistance	Retail Sales
Risk Capital	Risk Management
Roll Over

S

Sell Limit Order	Sell Stop
Settlement	Short
Slippage	SNB
Speculation	Spike
Spot	Spread
Sterling	Stop Loss Order
Stop Order	Swiss Franc
Swiss National Bank	Swissy

T

Technical Analysis	Technical Indicator
The Pound	Trade Balance
Trading Platform	Transaction
Transaction Cost	Trend

U

U.S. Dollar	Undervalued
Unemployment Rate	United States Dollar
Uptick	US Dollar Index
US Treasury	USD

V

W

Wholesale Prices

Y

Y-o-Y	Yard
Yen	Yield

Z

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