The Forex Glossary and Terms

Navigating 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 Accrual What is Adjustment What is an American Depository Receipt (ADR) What is an American Option What is Appreciation What is Arbitrage What is an Ascending Triangle What is an Ask (Offer) Price What is the Association Cambiste Internationale What is At Best What is At or Better What is At the Money B What is Balance of Trade What is the Bank of England What is a Bar Chart What is a Base Currency What is a Bear Market What is a Bid Price What is a Bid/Ask Spread What is the Big Figure What is the Black-Scholes Model What are Bollinger Bands What is a Broker What is the Bretton Woods Agreement What is a Bull Market What is the Bundesbank C What is Cable What is a Call Option What is a Capital Account What is the Canadian Ivey Managers Purchasing Index What is a Candlestick Chart What is Carry Trade What is the Cash Market What is a Central Bank What is a Channel What is a Chartist What is Clearing What is the Clearing House Automated Payment System What is the Clearing House Interbank Payment System What is a Closed Position What is the CME Group What is a Commission What is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission What is a Confirmation What is Construction Spending What is Contagion What is Continuous Linked Settlement What is a Contract Lot What is a Conversion Rate What is Counter Currency What is a Counterparty What is Country Risk What is a Covered Call What is Currency What is a Currecny Pair What is Currency Risk What is a Currency Symbol What is a Currency Swap What is a Current Account D What is a Day Trader What is a Dealer What is a Deficit What is Delivery What is a Demo Account What is the Department of Commerce What is Depreciation What is a Derivative What is a Descending Triangle What is Devaluation What is the Discount Rate What is a Double Top or Bottom What is the Dow Theory E What is an Economic Indicator What is the Elliott Wave Principle What is the European Monetary Union What is the Euro 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 Exotics What is an Exponential Moving Average F What is are Factory Orders What is the Federal Reserve What is a Flat Currency What are Fibonacci Numbers What is FIFO What Is Fiscal Party What is the Fischer Effect What is a Fixed Currency What is a Flag and Pennant What is Flat/Square What is s Forward What are Forward Points What is Fundamental Analysis What is a Future Contract G What is the G8 What is Going Long What is Going Short What is a Gold Certificate What is a Gold Contract What is a Golden Cross What is Grid Trading What is GDP What is Gross National Product What is a Good Til' Cancelled Order H What is a Head-and-Shoulders What is a Hedge What is Historical Volatility I What is Implied Volatility What is In the Money What is Industrial Production What is Inflation What is Initial Margin What are Interbank Rates What is The International Organization for Standardization What is the International Monetary Fund What is Intervention What is Intrinsic Value What is an Inverse Head and Shoulders What is the ISM Manufacturing Index J What is the J-Curve Theory K L What is a Lagging Indicator What is Larry Williams R% What are Leading Indicators What is Leverage What is LIBOR What is a Limit Order What is Liquidation Level What is Liquidity Management What is a Long Position What is a Lot M What is Maintenance What is Margin What is a Margin Call What is a Market Maker What is Market Risk What is Mark-to-Market What is Maturity What is Momentum What is Monetary Easing What is Monetary Policy What is Moving Average Convergence-Divergence N What is a Net Position What is Nostro Account O What is the Offer (Ask) What are Open Market Operations What is an Open Order What is an Open Position What is an Oscillator What is Out of the Money What is Over-the-Counter What is Overbought What is Oversold What is an Overnight Position P What is Parabolic Stop-and-Reverse What is a Pennant What is Personal Income What is a Pip What is Political Risk What is Position What is a Premium What is the Prime Rate What is Price Transparency What is the Producers Price Index What is a Put Option What is Put-Call-Forward Parity What is Put/Call Ratio Q What is Quantitative R What is a Rally What is Random Walk Theory What is Ranging Market What is a Recession What is the Relative Strength Index What is a Reserve Currency What are Reserves What is Resistance What are Retail Sales What is Revluation What is Risk What is Risk Management What is Roll-Over What is a Round Trip S What is Settlement What is a Short Position What is a Simple Moving Average What is Sovereign Risk What is the Spot Market What is a Spot Price What is a Spot Trade What is the Spread What is Sterilization What is a Slow Stochastic What is Stop Loss Order What is Support What is a Swap What is SWIFT What is Symmetrical Triangle T What is Technical Analysis What is Technical Indicators What is Trade Balance What is a Trailing Stop What is a Trending Market What is Turnover What is Two- Way Price U What is the Unemployment Rate What is University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index What is an Unrealized Gain/Loss What is an Uptick What is the Uptick Rule What is the USD Index V What is Value at Risk What is a Value Date What is a Variation Margin What is the VIX Index What is Volatility W What is Wedge Pattern What is a Whipsaw What is the Wholesale Price Index X Y What is a Yield Curve