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.
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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
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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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M
What is Moving Average Convergence-Divergence
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O
What are Open Market Operations
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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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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 Trade Balance?
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What is Liquidity Management?
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What is a Central Bank?
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What is a Value Date?
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What is Monetary Policy?
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What is a Nostro Account?
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What is a Currency Swap?
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What is Carry Trade?
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What are Open Market Operations?
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What is Appreciation?
May 14, 2012 at 5:10 AM -
What is a Current Account?
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What is Country Risk?
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What is Currency Risk?
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What is Monetary Easing?
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What is Momentum?
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What is an Inverse Head and Shoulders?
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What is Industrial Production?
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What is In the Money?
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What is Implied Volatility?
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What is Volatility?
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What is a Trailing Stop?
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What is a Swap?
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What is Technical Analysis?
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What is a Roll-Over?
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What is Quantitative Easing?
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What is Put-Call-Forward Parity?
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What is Out of the Money?
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What is a Net Position?
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What is a Bear Market?
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What is a Wedge Pattern?
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What is University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index?
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What are Technical Indicators?
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What is Inflation?
March 28, 2012 at 5:03 AM -
What is a Margin Call?
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What is a Lot?
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What is At Best?
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What is the International Monetary Fund?
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What is the G8?
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What is a Futures Contract?
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What is Fundamental Analysis?
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What is an Exponential Moving Average?
March 28, 2012 at 5:01 AM -
What is a Currency Symbol?
March 28, 2012 at 5:01 AM -
What is Currency?
March 28, 2012 at 5:01 AM -
What is a Covered Call?
March 28, 2012 at 5:00 AM -
What is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission?
March 28, 2012 at 5:00 AM -
What is At or Better?
March 28, 2012 at 5:00 AM -
What is an Uptick?
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What is a Pennant?
March 28, 2012 at 5:00 AM -
What is GDP?
March 28, 2012 at 4:59 AM -
What is a Forward?
March 28, 2012 at 4:59 AM -
What is Flat/Square?
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What is an American Option?
March 28, 2012 at 4:58 AM -
What is Sterilization?
March 28, 2012 at 4:58 AM -
What is the Relative Strength Index?
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What are Interbank Rates?
March 28, 2012 at 4:58 AM -
What is Historical Volatility?
March 28, 2012 at 4:57 AM -
What is a Counter Currency?
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What is the CME Group?
March 28, 2012 at 4:57 AM -
What is a Channel?
March 28, 2012 at 4:57 AM -
What is a Capital Account?
March 28, 2012 at 4:57 AM -
What is At the Money?
March 28, 2012 at 4:56 AM -
What is Arbitrage?
March 28, 2012 at 4:56 AM -
What is Gross National Product?
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What is Grid Trading?
March 28, 2012 at 4:56 AM -
What is Going Short?
March 28, 2012 at 4:55 AM -
What are Factory Orders?
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What are Exotics?
March 28, 2012 at 4:55 AM -
What is a Double Top or Bottom?
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What is the Department of Commerce?
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What is a Demo Account?
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What is the Fisher Effect?
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What is the Unemployment Rate?
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What is the Spread?
March 28, 2012 at 4:53 AM -
What is a Spot Price?
March 28, 2012 at 4:53 AM -
What is the Spot Market?
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What is a Simple Moving Average?
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What is a Short Position?
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What is Settlement?
March 28, 2012 at 4:52 AM -
What is Risk Management?
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What are Reserves?
March 28, 2012 at 4:51 AM -
What is a Recession?
March 28, 2012 at 4:51 AM -
What is a Ranging Market?
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What is Random Walk Theory?
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What is the Federal Reserve?
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What is the Eurozone Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Leading Indicator?
March 28, 2012 at 4:50 AM -
What is a European Style Option?
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What is the European Central Bank?
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What is Margin?
March 28, 2012 at 4:50 AM -
What is Fiscal Policy?
March 28, 2012 at 4:49 AM -
What are Fibonacci Numbers?
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What is a Fiat Currency?
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What is the Euro?
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What is a Counterparty?
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What is a Conversion Rate?
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What is Construction Spending?
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What is a Confirmation?
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What is a Commission?
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What is the Clearing House Automated Payment System?
March 28, 2012 at 4:47 AM -
What is Carry Trade?
March 28, 2012 at 4:47 AM -
What is a Call Option?
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What is a Broker?
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What is the Big Figure?
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What is the Bank of England?
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What is Revaluation?
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What is a Pip?
March 28, 2012 at 4:46 AM -
What is an Oscillator?
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What is an Open Position?
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What is a Hedge?
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What is a Head-and-Shoulders?
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What is Parabolic Stop-and-Reverse?
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What is an Overnight Position?
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What is Oversold?
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What is a Contract Lot?
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What is Continuous Linked Settlement?
March 28, 2012 at 4:43 AM -
What is Clearing?
March 28, 2012 at 4:42 AM -
What is a Candlestick Chart?
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What is Cable?
March 28, 2012 at 4:42 AM -
What is the Wholesale Price Index?
March 28, 2012 at 4:42 AM -
What is Support?
March 28, 2012 at 4:41 AM -
What is a Slow Stochastic?
March 28, 2012 at 4:41 AM -
What is a Rally?
March 28, 2012 at 4:41 AM -
What is Put/Call Ratio?
March 28, 2012 at 4:41 AM -
What is a Put Option?
March 28, 2012 at 4:40 AM -
What is the Prime Rate?
March 28, 2012 at 4:40 AM -
What is a Premium?
March 28, 2012 at 4:40 AM -
What is Liquidation Level?
March 28, 2012 at 4:40 AM -
What is a Limit Order?
March 28, 2012 at 4:39 AM -
What is a Lagging Indicator?
March 28, 2012 at 4:39 AM -
What is a Gold Contract?
March 28, 2012 at 4:39 AMGold 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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What is a Flag and Pennant?
March 28, 2012 at 4:39 AM -
What is a Fixed Currency?
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What is FIFO?
March 28, 2012 at 4:38 AM -
What is a Dealer?
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What is Contagion?
March 28, 2012 at 4:38 AM -
What is a Bull Market?
March 28, 2012 at 4:37 AM -
What are Bollinger Bands?
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What is a Variation Margin?
March 28, 2012 at 4:37 AM -
What is Value at Risk?
March 28, 2012 at 4:37 AM -
What is the Uptick Rule?
March 28, 2012 at 4:36 AM -
What is an Unrealized Gain/Loss?
March 28, 2012 at 4:36 AM -
What is the Dow Theory?
March 28, 2012 at 4:36 AM -
What is Delivery?
March 28, 2012 at 4:36 AM -
What is the Black-Scholes Model?
March 28, 2012 at 4:36 AM -
What is a Yield Curve?
March 28, 2012 at 4:35 AM -
What is the Clearing House Interbank Payment System?
March 28, 2012 at 4:35 AM -
What is the Bundesbank?
March 28, 2012 at 4:35 AM -
What is a Bar Chart?
March 28, 2012 at 4:35 AM -
What is an American Depository Receipt (ADR)?
March 28, 2012 at 4:35 AM -
What is adjustment?
March 28, 2012 at 4:34 AM -
What is accrual?
March 28, 2012 at 4:34 AM -
What is Maturity?
March 28, 2012 at 4:34 AM -
What is LIBOR?
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What is Leverage?
March 28, 2012 at 4:33 AM -
What is Intervention?
March 28, 2012 at 4:33 AM -
What is a Good Til' Cancelled Order?
March 28, 2012 at 4:33 AM -
What is a Gold Certificate?
March 28, 2012 at 4:32 AM -
What is Foreign Exchange?
March 28, 2012 at 4:32 AM -
What is an Economic Indicator?
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What is Devaluation?
March 28, 2012 at 4:32 AM -
What is a Symmetrical Triangle?
March 28, 2012 at 4:31 AM -
What is a Currency Pair?
March 28, 2012 at 4:31 AM -
What is the Canadian Ivey Managers Purchasing Index?
March 28, 2012 at 4:30 AM -
What is a Closed Position?
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What is the Bretton Woods Agreement?
March 28, 2012 at 4:30 AM -
What is a Bid/Ask Spread?
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What is a Bid Price?
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What is a Base Currency?
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What is an Ask (Offer) Price?
March 28, 2012 at 4:28 AM -
What is an Ascending Triangle?
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What is a Golden Cross?
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What is a Whipsaw?
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What is Moving Average Convergence-Divergence?
March 28, 2012 at 4:27 AM -
What is Maintenance?
March 28, 2012 at 4:27 AM -
What is Intrinsic Value?
March 28, 2012 at 4:27 AM -
What is the VIX Index?
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What is the USD Index?
March 28, 2012 at 4:27 AM -
What is Stop Loss Order?
March 28, 2012 at 4:26 AM -
What is the European Monetary Union?
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What is the Elliott Wave Principle?
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What is the Discount Rate?
March 28, 2012 at 4:26 AM -
What is a Descending Triangle?
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What is a Derivative?
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What is Depreciation?
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What is a Deficit?
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What is a Two-Way Price?
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What is Turnover?
March 28, 2012 at 4:24 AM -
What is a Trending Market?
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What is SWIFT?
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What is a Spot Trade?
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What is Sovereign Risk?
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What is a Round Trip?
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What is Risk?
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What are Retail Sales?
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What is Position?
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What is Political Risk?
March 28, 2012 at 4:22 AM -
What is Over-the-Counter?
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What is the Offer (Ask)?
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What is a Market Maker?
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What is an Open Order?
March 28, 2012 at 4:21 AM -
What is a Long Position?
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What is Mark-to-Market?
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What is the ISM Manufacturing Index?
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What is the Cash Market?
March 28, 2012 at 4:20 AM -
What is Resistance?
March 28, 2012 at 4:20 AM -
What is a Reserve Currency?
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What is the Producers Price Index?
March 28, 2012 at 4:19 AM -
What is Price Transparency?
March 28, 2012 at 4:18 AM -
What is Market Risk?
March 28, 2012 at 4:18 AM -
What are Leading Indicators?
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What is Larry Williams R%?
March 28, 2012 at 4:17 AM -
What is the J-Curve Theory?
March 28, 2012 at 4:17 AM -
What is Going Long?
March 28, 2012 at 4:17 AM -
What are Forward Points?
March 28, 2012 at 4:17 AM -
What is a Chartist?
March 28, 2012 at 4:17 AM -
What is the Cash Market?
March 28, 2012 at 4:16 AM -
What is the Association Cambiste Internationale?
March 28, 2012 at 4:16 AM -
What is a Day Trader?
March 28, 2012 at 4:16 AM -
What is Personal Income?
March 28, 2012 at 4:15 AM -
What is Overbought?
March 28, 2012 at 4:15 AM -
What is The International Organization for Standardization?
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What is Initial Margin?
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