Glossary

You’ve got to know the lingo to speak the language.
Below – some of the main terms that will help you find your way through the financial world.
Click on a term, read the definition and watch the video.

A
Asset
B
Base Currency	Bear Market	Bid/Ask Spread	Binary Option	Broker
Bull Market
C
Call option	Candlestick Chart	Chart	Commodity	Currency pair
D
Deficit	Deposit	Depreciation	Downtrend
E
ECB (European Central Bank)	Economic Indicator	Entry (strike) rate	Expiry rate	Expiry time
F
FED (US Federal Monetary Reserve)	Fibonacci Retracement	Fiscal Policy	Forex/FX (Foreign Exchange)	Fundamental analysis
Futures /Forwards
G
Gap	GDP (Gross Domestic Product)	GMT
H
Hedge
I
Index (pl. Indices/Indexes)	Instrument	Investment
L
Leverage	Line Chart	Liquidity	Long Position
M
MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence)	Market	Market Orders	Momentum	Monetary Policy
Moving average
N
NYSE (New York Stock Exchange)
P
Pending Order	Pip	Point	Position	Put option
R
Resistance	Return	Risk	Rollover	RSI (Relative Strength Index)
S
S&P 500	Shares (stocks)	Short Position	Signal	Spread
Stock Exchange (bourse)	Stop Loss Order
T
Take Profit Order	Technical analysis	Tick	Trade Balance	Trader
Trading hours	Trend (Trend-line)	Turnover
V
Volatility	Volume
W
WTI – West Texas Crude
X
XAG	XAU