Forex Glossary and Terms
Financial Dictionary and Glossary with Common Trading TermsNavigating the world of forex terms is not always an easy task. Our forex and finance glossary contains easy to understand definitions of all the major words and expression you need to get your forex terminology right. This page can also serve you as a finance or business dictionary in general, as some of these financial terms don’t just belong in a forex thesaurus or lexicon; they appear in everyday life dealing with accounting, banking, economics and business too. So, enjoy this resource as just a currency dictionary, or why not also as a place to share, contribute and add your own meaning and definition in the comment area of each forex term.
A
What is an American Depository Receipt (ADR)
What is the Association Cambiste Internationale
B
What is the Black-Scholes Model
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement
C
What is the Canadian Ivey Managers Purchasing Index
What is the Clearing House Automated Payment System
What is the Clearing House Interbank Payment System
What is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
What is Continuous Linked Settlement
D
What is the Department of Commerce
What is a Double Top or Bottom
E
What is the Elliott Wave Principle
What is the European Monetary Union
What is a European Central Bank
What is a European Style Option
What is the Eurozone Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development(OCED) Leading Indica
What is an Exponential Moving Average
F
G
What is Gross National Product
What is a Good Til' Cancelled Order
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I
What is The International Organization for Standardization
What is the International Monetary Fund
What is an Inverse Head and Shoulders
What is the ISM Manufacturing Index
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K
L
M
What is Moving Average Convergence-Divergence
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O
What are Open Market Operations
P
What is Parabolic Stop-and-Reverse
What is the Producers Price Index
What is Put-Call-Forward Parity
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R
What is the Relative Strength Index
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What is a Simple Moving Average
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U
What is University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index
What is an Unrealized Gain/Loss
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What is the Wholesale Price Index
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What is a Hedge?
February 22, 2011 at 4:45 PM -
What is a Head-and-Shoulders?
February 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM -
What is Historical Volatility?
February 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM -
What is Implied Volatility?
February 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM -
What is In the Money?
February 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM -
What is Industrial Production?
February 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM -
What is Inflation?
February 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM -
What is Initial Margin?
February 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM -
What are Interbank Rates?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is The International Organization for Standardization?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is the International Monetary Fund?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is Intervention?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is Intrinsic Value?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is an Inverse Head and Shoulders?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is the ISM Manufacturing Index?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is the J-Curve Theory?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is a Lagging Indicator?
February 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM -
What is Larry Williams R%?
February 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM -
What are Leading Indicators?
February 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM -
What is Leverage?
February 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM -
What is LIBOR?
February 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM -
What is a Limit Order?
February 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM -
What is Liquidation Level?
February 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM -
What is Liquidity Management?
February 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM -
What is a Long Position?
February 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM -
What is Maintenance?
February 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM -
What is a Lot?
February 22, 2011 at 4:41 PM -
What is Margin?
February 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM -
What is a Margin Call?
February 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM -
What is a Market Maker?
February 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM -
What is Mark-to-Market?
February 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM -
What is Market Risk?
February 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM -
What is adjustment?
February 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM -
What is accrual?
February 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM -
What is an American Depository Receipt (ADR)?
February 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM -
What is an American Option?
February 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM -
What is Arbitrage?
February 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM -
What is Appreciation?
February 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM -
What is an Ascending Triangle?
February 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM -
What is an Ask (Offer) Price?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is the Association Cambiste Internationale?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is At Best?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is At or Better?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is At the Money?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is Balance of Trade?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is a Bar Chart?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is the Bank of England?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is a Base Currency?
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM -
What is a Bear Market?
February 22, 2011 at 4:37 PM -
What is a Bid Price?
February 22, 2011 at 4:37 PM -
What is a Bid/Ask Spread?
February 22, 2011 at 4:37 PM -
What is the Big Figure?
February 22, 2011 at 4:37 PM -
What is the Black-Scholes Model?
February 22, 2011 at 4:36 PM -
What are Bollinger Bands?
February 22, 2011 at 4:36 PM -
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement?
February 22, 2011 at 4:36 PM -
What is a Broker?
February 22, 2011 at 4:36 PM -
What is a Bull Market?
February 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
What is the Bundesbank?
February 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
What is Cable?
February 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
What is a Call Option?
February 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
What is the Canadian Ivey Managers Purchasing Index?
February 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
What is a Capital Account?
February 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
What is a Channel?
February 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
What is Carry Trade?
February 22, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
What is the Cash Market?
February 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM -
What is a Central Bank?
February 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM -
What is a Chartist?
February 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM -
What is the Clearing House Interbank Payment System?
February 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM -
What is the Clearing House Automated Payment System?
February 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM -
What is the CME Group?
February 22, 2011 at 4:29 PM -
What is a Candlestick Chart?
February 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM -
What is Carry Trade?
February 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM -
What is the Cash Market?
February 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM -
What is a Closed Position?
February 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM -
What is Clearing?
February 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM -
What is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission?
February 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM -
What is a Commission?
February 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM -
What is a Confirmation?
February 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM -
What is Contagion?
February 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM -
What is Construction Spending?
February 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM -
What is Continuous Linked Settlement?
February 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM -
What is a Contract Lot?
February 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM -
What is a Conversion Rate?
February 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM -
What is a Counter Currency?
February 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM -
What is Country Risk?
February 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM -
What is a Covered Call?
February 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM -
What is Currency?
February 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM -
What is a Currency Pair?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is Currency Risk?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is a Currency Symbol?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is a Counterparty?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is a Currency Swap?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is a Day Trader?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is a Current Account?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is a Dealer?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is a Deficit?
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM -
What is Delivery?
February 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM -
What is a Demo Account?
February 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM -
What is Depreciation?
February 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM -
What is the Department of Commerce?
February 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM -
What is a Derivative?
February 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM -
What is a Descending Triangle?
February 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM -
What is Devaluation?
February 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM -
What is the Discount Rate?
February 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM -
What is a Double Top or Bottom?
February 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM -
What is the Dow Theory?
February 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM -
What is an Economic Indicator?
February 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM -
What is the Elliott Wave Principle?
February 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM -
What is the European Monetary Union?
February 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM -
What is the Euro?
February 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM -
What is the European Central Bank?
February 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM -
What is a European Style Option?
February 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM -
What is the Eurozone Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Leading Indicator?
February 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM -
What are Exotics?
February 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM -
What are Factory Orders?
February 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM -
What is an Exponential Moving Average?
February 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM -
What is the Federal Reserve?
February 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM -
What is a Fiat Currency?
February 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM -
What are Fibonacci Numbers?
February 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM -
What is FIFO?
February 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM -
What is Fiscal Policy?
February 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM -
What is a Flag and Pennant?
February 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM -
What is a Fixed Currency?
February 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM -
What is Flat/Square?
February 22, 2011 at 4:21 PM -
What is Foreign Exchange?
February 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM -
What are Forward Points?
February 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM -
What is a Forward?
February 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM -
What is Fundamental Analysis?
February 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM -
What is a Futures Contract?
February 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM -
What is the G8?
February 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM -
What is Going Short?
February 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM -
What is Going Long?
February 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM -
What is a Gold Certificate?
February 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM -
What is a Golden Cross?
February 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM -
What is Grid Trading?
February 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM -
What is Gross National Product?
February 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM -
What is GDP?
February 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM -
What is Maturity?
February 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM -
What is Momentum?
February 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM -
What is Monetary Policy?
February 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM -
What is Monetary Easing?
February 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM -
What is Moving Average Convergence-Divergence?
February 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM -
What is a Nostro Account?
February 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM -
What is a Net Position?
February 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM -
What is the Offer (Ask)?
February 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM -
What are Open Market Operations?
February 22, 2011 at 4:17 PM -
What is an Open Order?
February 22, 2011 at 4:17 PM -
What is an Open Position?
February 22, 2011 at 4:17 PM -
What is an Oscillator?
February 22, 2011 at 4:17 PM -
What is Out of the Money?
February 22, 2011 at 4:17 PM -
What is Over-the-Counter?
February 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM -
What is Oversold?
February 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM -
What is Overbought?
February 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM -
What is an Overnight Position?
February 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM -
What is Parabolic Stop-and-Reverse?
February 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM -
What is a Pennant?
February 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM -
What is Personal Income?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is Political Risk?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is a Pip?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is Position?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is the Prime Rate?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is a Premium?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is Price Transparency?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is a Put Option?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is the Producers Price Index?
February 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM -
What is Put-Call-Forward Parity?
February 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM -
What is Put/Call Ratio?
February 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM -
What is Quantitative Easing?
February 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM -
What is a Rally?
February 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM -
What is Random Walk Theory?
February 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM -
What is a Recession?
February 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM -
What is a Ranging Market?
February 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM -
What is the Relative Strength Index?
February 22, 2011 at 4:13 PM -
What is a Reserve Currency?
February 22, 2011 at 4:13 PM -
What is Resistance?
February 22, 2011 at 4:13 PM -
What are Reserves?
February 22, 2011 at 4:13 PM -
What are Retail Sales?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is Revaluation?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is Risk?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is Risk Management?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is a Round Trip?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is a Roll-Over?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is Settlement?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is a Short Position?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is Sovereign Risk?
February 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM -
What is a Simple Moving Average?
February 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM -
What is the Spot Market?
February 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM -
What is a Spot Price?
February 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM -
What is a Spot Trade?
February 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM -
What is the Spread?
February 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM -
What is Sterilization?
February 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM -
What is Stop Loss Order?
February 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM -
What is Support?
February 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM -
What is a Swap?
February 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM -
What is SWIFT?
February 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM -
What is Technical Analysis?
February 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM -
What is a Symmetrical Triangle?
February 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM -
What are Technical Indicators?
February 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM -
What is Trade Balance?
February 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM -
What is a Trailing Stop?
February 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM -
What is a Trending Market?
February 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM -
What is Turnover?
February 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM -
What is a Two-Way Price?
February 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM -
What is University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index?
February 22, 2011 at 4:08 PM -
What is the Unemployment Rate?
February 22, 2011 at 4:08 PM -
What is an Unrealized Gain/Loss?
February 22, 2011 at 4:08 PM -
What is an Uptick?
February 22, 2011 at 4:08 PM -
What is the Uptick Rule?
February 22, 2011 at 4:08 PM -
What is the USD Index?
February 22, 2011 at 4:06 PM -
What is Value at Risk?
February 22, 2011 at 4:06 PM -
What is a Value Date?
February 22, 2011 at 4:05 PM -
What is the VIX Index?
February 22, 2011 at 4:05 PM -
What is a Variation Margin?
February 22, 2011 at 4:05 PM -
What is Volatility?
February 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM -
What is a Whipsaw?
February 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM -
What is a Wedge Pattern?
February 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM -
What is the Wholesale Price Index?
February 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM -
What is a Yield Curve?
February 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM -
What is a Slow Stochastic?
February 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM -
What is a Good Til' Cancelled Order?
February 22, 2011 at 3:12 PM -
What is the Fisher Effect?
February 22, 2011 at 3:11 PM -
What is a Gold Contract?
February 22, 2011 at 3:11 PMGold Contract Definition. A Gold Contract is the standard unit of trading gold such that one contract is equal to 10 troy ounces. The "Troy" system of weight used for measuring precious metals, a holdover from the medieval period, is... Read More
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