Forex Glossary

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Account Account Balance Agent Aggregate Demand All or None Appreciation Arbitrage Ask Size Ask Rate Asset Allocation Attorney in Fact Back Office Balance Balance of Payments Base Currency Basis Basis Point Bear Bear Market Bid Bid/Ask Spread Big Figure Bonds Book Bretton Woods Accord of 1944 Broker Bull Bull Market Bundesbank Cable Candlestick Charts Capital Markets Central Bank Chartist Clearing Close a Position (Position Squaring) Commission Confirmation Contagion Contract (Unit or Lot) Convertible Currency Cost of Carry Counter party Country Risk Credit Checking Credit Netting Cross Rates Currency Currency Risk Day Trading Dealer Deficit Delivery Deposit Depreciation Derivatives Devaluation Economic Indicator Efficient Market End Of Day (or Mark to Market) Estimated Annual Income Euro European Central Bank European Monetary Unit Exchange Rate Risk Economic Exposure Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Federal Reserve (Fed) Fixed Exchange Rate Fixed Interest Flat (or Square) Floating Rate Interest Foreign Exchange (or Forex or FX) Foreign Exchange Risk Forward Forward Points Forward Rate Agreements (FRA`s) Front and Back Office Fundamental Analysis Futures GTC Hedge High/Low Inflation Initial Margin Interbank Rates Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) Interest Rate Swap Points ISDA Leading Indicators LIBOR LIFFE Limit Order Liquid and Illiquid Markets Liquidation Liquid Assets Long Margin Margin Call Mark to Market (or End Of Day) Market Maker Market Order Market Risk Maturity Mine and Yours Money Markets Net Worth Off Balance Sheet Offer Offsetting Transaction One Cancels Other Order (O.C.O. Order) Open Order Open Position Options Order Overnight Over The Counter (OTC) Pegging Pip (or Points) Political Risk Position Premium Price Transparency Quote Rate Realized and Unrealized Profit and Loss Re-purchase (or Repo) Resistance Revaluation Rates Risk Risk Capital Risk Management Rollover Settlement Short Short Position Spot Stop Order Spot Price Spread Support Levels Swaps Sterling Technical Analysis Tick Ticker Tomorrow Next (Tom/Next) Transaction Cost Transaction Date Turnover Two Way Price Uptick Uptick Rule US Prime Rate Value Date Variation Margin Volatility Volume Warrants Whipsaw Yard