Glossary
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A
- Abandoned Baby
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A reversal candlestick combination where a doji appears after a gap and is also followed by a gap in the opposite direction.
Learn more → - Accrual
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Accumulation of interest on an investment, usually dependent on some kind of percentage or formula.
Learn more → - Advance/Decline Index
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A technical indicator that reflects the strength of the trend by measuring the difference between assets with rising value and those with declining value.
Learn more → - Afghanistan Afghanis (AFA)
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The currency of Afghanistan
Learn more → - Alan Bollard
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Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (2002 - Present).
Learn more → - Alan Greenspan
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Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of United States' Federal Reserve Bank.
Learn more → - Albanian Leke (ALL)
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The currency of Albania
Learn more → - Andrew's Pitchfork
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A charting tool used to identify potential support and resistance levels.
Learn more → - Appreciation
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An increase in the value of an asset or currency...
Learn more → - Arbitrage
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A trading technique used by sophisticated investors to take advantage of differences for the same asset between different markets...
Learn more → - Aroon Indicator
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A technical indicator that attempts to determine whether a trading instrumental is trending how strong the trend is.
Learn more → - Aroon Oscillator
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A technical indicator that reflects the strength of a trend.
Learn more → - Ascending Triangle
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A chart pattern representing a period of congestion with bullish bias.
Learn more → - Ask Price
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The price at which a trader can purchase a particular financial instrument, such as currency pairs.
Learn more → - Aussie
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Slang term for the Australian Dollar.
Learn more → - Australian Dollar (AUD)
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The official currency of Australia.
Learn more → - Average Hourly Earnings
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A measure of how much workers are being paid.
Learn more → - Average True Range (ATR)
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A technical indicator that measures the volatility of a currency pair or any trading instruments.
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B
- Backtest
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A method of checking a certain trading system by analyzing historical data.
Learn more → - Balance of Payments
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A statement that summarizes the total economic transaction of a country with the rest of the world.
Learn more → - Balance of Power (BoP)
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An oscillator that represents the battle between the bulls and the bears in the market.
Learn more → - Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
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An international financial organization who's goal is to foster stability by connecting central banks of the world.
Learn more → - Bank of England (BoE)
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The Central Bank of England.
Learn more → - Bank of Japan (BoJ)
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The Central Bank of Japan.
Learn more → - Base Currency
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The first currency stated in a currency pair
Learn more → - Bear
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An individual who believes that the price of a certain trading instrument will fall.
Learn more → - Bearish Divergence
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A technical analysis term describing higher prices while a technical indicator that is also suppose to confirm does not.
Learn more → - Beige Book
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A compilation of surveys conducted by the 12 Federal banking districts, which is presented to the Federal Open Market Committee and available to the public 8 times a year.
Learn more → - Ben Bernanke
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Chairman of the Board of Governors of United States' Federal Reserve Bank (2006 - )
Learn more → - Bid Price
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The price a trader can sell a particular financial instrument, such as currency pairs.
Learn more → - Bollinger Bands
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A technical indicator consisting of 3 bands that represent the volatility in the market from the mean.
Learn more → - Bollinger Bandwidth
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A technical indicator derived from the Bollinger Bands that show the relative measure of the width of the Bollinger Bands.
Learn more → - Bollinger Percent B (%B)
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An oscillator type of indicator derived from the Bollinger Bands plotting the relative position of price to any of the three bands in the Bollinger Bands indicator.
Learn more → - Breakout
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When prices break through a predetermined level of support or resistance usually coming out of a consolidation or congestion period.
Learn more → - Broker
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An individual or a firm that executes investment or trade orders for a fee.
Learn more → - Bull
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An individual that believes price of a trading instrument will rise.
Learn more → - Bullish Divergence
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A technical analysis term describing lower prices while a technical indicator that is also suppose to confirm does not.
Learn more → - Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS - US)
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An agency of the US government that compiles facts and reports on broad field of employment.
Learn more → - Business Inventories
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A fundamental indicator of the value of unsold goods produced by retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers.
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C
- Cable
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Slang for GBP/USD.
Learn more → - Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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Canada's national currency.
Learn more → - Candlestick Analysis
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A form of technical analysis that assesses price action using the Japanese Candlestick charting method.
Learn more → - Candlestick Chart
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A charting method introduced by Japanese traders, displaying the high, low, open and close of a period. As the name suggests, these representations of market data look like candlesticks.
Learn more → - Capacity Utilization Rate
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A measure of how much of the productive capacity a country is using.
Learn more → - Carry Trade
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An investment strategy whereby the investor borrows from a relatively low-yielding or low-interest currency, and invest in high-yielding or high-interest currency.
Learn more → - CBI Industrial Trends Survey
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A survey conducted by the Confederation of British Industry that reports overall sentiment in top Manufacturing Executives.
Learn more → - Central Bank
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The bank that is responsible for monetary policies among other things that is needed to create conditions allowing a stable economy.
Learn more → - Chaikan Money Flow (CMF)
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An n-periods volume weighted average of Chaikan's Accumulation/Distribution indicator plotted as an oscillator.
Learn more → - Chaikan's Volatility
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A volatility indicator comparing highs and lows of an instrument over n-periods.
Learn more → - Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Learn more → - Chande's Dynamic Momentum Index
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An oscillator that reflects the momentum of the market using a variable periodicity.
Learn more → - Chande's Momentum Oscillator (CMO)
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An oscillator that measures the momentum of the market.
Learn more → - Chande's Trendscore
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A technical indicator that attempts to identify strong trends.
Learn more → - Channel
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A sideways or trending market bound by parallel support and resistance lines.
Learn more → - Chaos Accelerator Oscillator
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An oscillating technical indicator developed by Bill Williams.
Learn more → - Chaos Alligator Indicator
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Learn more → - Chaos Awesome Oscillator
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A technical indicator derived from the Chaos Alligator plotted as a histogram.
Learn more → - Chaos Gator Oscillator
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A technical indicator derived from the the Chaos Alligator indicator plotted as a histogram.
Learn more → - Chart Pattern
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Various formations of market action that technical analysts can use to help forecast future scenarios.
Learn more → - Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
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The largest options exchange in the US established in 1973 by the Chicago Board of Trade.
Learn more → - Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
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Learn more → - Choppiness Index
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A technical indicator that determines the trendiness and choppiness of the market.
Learn more → - Claimant Count
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An economic indicator for the United Kingdom that measures unemployment.
Learn more → - CNY
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Short for Chinese Yuan and the trading symbol for China's nation currency - Renminbi (RMB).
Learn more → - Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
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An oscillator that measures the market's momentum through the price's variance from the statistical mean.
Learn more → - Congestion
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Description of market action when it is consolidating and has is declining in volatility.
Learn more → - Consolidation
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A period of pause after a a period bullish or bearish trend.
Learn more → - Consumer Confidence
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A measure of the overall mood surrounding the financial conditions within an economy.
Learn more → - Consumer Price Index (CPI)
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A measure of the average price level of a basket of goods and services purchased by the consumers - a measure of inflation.
Learn more → - Continuation
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A term used to describe that a trend will extend its course.
Learn more → - Correction
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A term used to describe price action during a partial reversal of a trend.
Learn more → - Counter Currency
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Second currency listed in a currency pair.
Learn more → - Counterparty
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An individual or a bank that deals with international financial exchange and is ultimately the guarantor of a contract such as a loan.
Learn more → - Cross Pair
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An artificial currency pair created with 2 other pairs.
Learn more → - Cross Rate
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The exchange rate of a cross pair (most likely one that does not include the USD).
Learn more → - Crossover
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A technical signal that occurs when price action crosses a level defined by a technical indicator. Crossover signals also occur within indicators or between indicators.
Learn more → - Currency Intervention
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Currency intervention is an action taken by a government, along with its central bank, to change the value of its currency when it rises or falls excessively against other currencies.
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D
- Darvas Box
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A technical indicator developed by Nicholas Darvas to identify breakouts.
Learn more → - David Dodge
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Governor of the Bank of Canada 2001-2008.
Learn more → - Day Trader
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A trader who's style of trading is characterized by opening and closing positions of the same instrument in the same day.
Learn more → - Dealing Desk
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A "desk" or station where the transactions for buying and selling of securities occur.
Learn more → - Death Cross
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A technical analysis term referring to a cross by a short-term moving average from above to below a long-term moving average.
Learn more → - DeMark's DeMarker I
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An oscillator that attempts to identify tops and bottoms.
Learn more → - Demark's Range Expansion Index
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An oscillator that attempts to identify overbought and oversold conditions.
Learn more → - Depreciation
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A decrease in the value of an asset or currency.
Learn more → - Descending Triangle
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A chart pattern representing a period of congestion with bearish bias.
Learn more → - Detrended Price Oscillator (DPO)
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An oscillator that attempts to capture shorter-term cycles for quicker determination of potential overbought and oversold levels.
Learn more → - Diagonal Triangle
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A chat pattern with support and resistance going in the direction of a trend but eventually converging.
Learn more → - Diamond Formation
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A chart pattern that represents expansion and then congestion.
Learn more → - Directional Movement Index (DMI)
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A technical indicator that can indicate the start of a new trend developed by J. Welles Wilder.
Learn more → - Directional Movement System
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A trend identifying technical indicator system that consists of the ADX and DMI indicators.
Learn more → - Discount Rate
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The interest rate the federal reserve bank charges to banks for borrowing its money.
Learn more → - Disparity Index
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An oscillator that measures how far the price action is from an n-period moving average.
Learn more → - Divergence
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A technical setup where the direction of an indicator fails to confirm that of price action or another indicator.
Learn more → - Doji
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Learn more → - Donchian Channel
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A channel based on the highs and lows of n-periods used in breakout trading approaches.
Learn more → - Double Bottom
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A chart pattern that may indicate a pending rally.
Learn more → - Double Exponential Moving Average (DEMA)
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Learn more → - Double Stochastic Oscillator
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A deviation of the Stochastic Oscillator that reflects the momentum of the market.
Learn more → - Double Top
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A chart pattern that may indicate a pending decline.
Learn more → - Dovish
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The sentiment or condition calling for lower interest rates.
Learn more → - Durable Goods Order
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A fundamental economic indicator that measures the strength of manufacturing.
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E
- Ease of Movement (EMV)
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A momentum indicator that attempt to determine the strength of the trend by analyzing the relationship between price change and volume.
Learn more → - Eco Watchers Survey (Economic Watchers Survey)
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Short for Economic Watchers Survey, a Japanese confidence indicator that gauges the sentiment of businesses at the street (retail) level
Learn more → - Economic Monetary Union (EMU)
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A system of integration between participating members of the European Union.
Learn more → - Ehlers Fisher Transform
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A technical indicator that attempts to identify reversal points.
Learn more → - Ehlers MESA Adaptive Moving Average
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A moving average type indicator that incorporates cyclical analysis.
Learn more → - Ehlers Relative Vigor Index (RVI)
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An oscillator that attempts to measure the energy of moves as well as identify turning points in phase with the cyclic component of market action.
Learn more → - Elliot Wave Theory
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A technical analysis theory that suggests a certain natural wave property to price movements.
Learn more → - Elliott Oscillator
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The Elliot Oscillator is simply the difference of a 5-periods simple moving average and a 34-periods simple moving average.
Learn more → - Elliott Wave Principles
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Rules and guidelines developed by Ralph Nelson Elliott as well as later wave practitioners based on the theory that the market moves in impulse and corrective waves.
Learn more → - Employment Cost Index (ECI)
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An economic indicator of the U.S. that measures the growth rate and inflation of labor cost.
Learn more → - Engulfing Pattern
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A candlestick pattern that suggests strength of a current candlestick, which has a larger body, with open and close outside of the previous candle's.
Learn more → - EUR
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Short for Euro.
Learn more → - Euro
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The official currency used by the eurozone.
Learn more → - European Central Bank (ECB)
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The central bank of the European Union.
Learn more → - European Monetary System (EMS)
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The precursor to the European Economic Monetary Union.
Learn more → - European Union (EU)
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A group of European countries who's goal is to integrate economically to create barrier-free trade zones.
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F
- Factory Orders (United States)
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A report from the U.S. Census Bureau that measures new orders, shipments, unfilled orders, and inventories of domestic manufacturers.
Learn more → - Fair Value
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Learn more → - Federal Funds Rate
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The interest rate that banks charge each other for federal funds.
Learn more → - Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
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A committee set up by the Federal bank to establish and monitor monetary policies.
Learn more → - Federal Reserve Bank (Fed)
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The Central Bank of the United States.
Learn more → - Federal Reserve Discount Rate
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The rate the federal reserve bank charges to borrow its money.
Learn more → - Fibonacci Ratios
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Ratios that reflect structure of growth and decay in nature and are also used in technical analysis.
Learn more → - Financial Account
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The difference between domestic ownership of foreign assets and foreign ownership of domestic assets.
Learn more → - Fixed Exchange Rate
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The currency rate that is set against another currency or currencies.
Learn more → - Flag Pattern
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A chart pattern formation that represents a consolidation and is sometimes interpreted as a continuation pattern.
Learn more → - Floating Exchange Rate
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The currency rate that is allowed to fluctuate according to the market.
Learn more → - Force Index
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An oscillating technical indicator that attempts to measure the "force" behind moves based on its direction, distance, and trading volume.
Learn more → - Forex (FX)
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Short for Foreign Exchange - a market for global currencies.
Learn more → - Fundamental Analysis
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A method of forecasting based on assessment of the intrinsic value of a particular instrument.
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G
- G-7, G-8
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Short for Group of Seven, Group of Eight: The world's largest industrialized countries that come together at summit meetings to discuss international economic and monetary policies.
Learn more → - G20
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Learn more → - Gann HiLo Activator
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A quick moving average type of indicator that is used as an entry trigger and stop-loss placement.
Learn more → - Gann Swing Oscillator
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An oscillator with bounded between +1 and -1 that attempts to define market swings.
Learn more → - Gann Trend Oscillator
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An oscillator that attempts to define the general market direction.
Learn more → - GBP
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Short for the Great Britain Pound, national currency of the UK.
Learn more → - George Osborne
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The Chancellor of Exchequer for the UK. (2010 - )
Learn more → - Glenn Stevens
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The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) with a set term from 2006 to 2013.
Learn more → - Golden Cross
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A technical analysis term referring to a cross by a short-term moving average from below to above a long-term moving average.
Learn more → - Gordon Brown
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The Prime Minister of the UK from 2007-2010.
Learn more → - Greenback
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Slang for the US dollar
Learn more → - Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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The total value of a country's goods and services produced within its physical boundaries in a year.
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H
- Hammer
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Identified after a decline - a Japanese candlestick type representing price that moved significantly lower, but rebounds to close well below the low.
Learn more → - Hanging Man
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Identified after a rally - a Japanese candlestick that has a long tail to the bottom, but a narrow body where the open and close are very close to each other.
Learn more → - Hawkish
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The sentiment or condition calling for higher interest rates.
Learn more → - Head and Shoulder
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A classic chart pattern that suggests a reversal after a rally.
Learn more → - Henry Paulson
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United States Secretary of Treasury from 2006 - 2009.
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I
- Ichimoku
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Known entirely as the Ichimoku Kinko Huo, or Ichimoku Hyo, the Ichimoku clouds is a charting and technical analysis method.
Learn more → - Inertia
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A Relative Volatility Index smoothed by a linear regression developed to define a trend.
Learn more → - Interest on Reserves
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Interest on Reserves, or IOR, is the rate payed to banks by the Fed to keep their money at the central bank as excess reserves.
Learn more → - Interest Rates
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The rate at which the borrow pays back the lender on top of the loan value for the use of the money.
Learn more → - International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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An international organitation of 184 countries that oversees the global financial system.
Learn more → - Introducing Broker (IB)
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A person or institution that acts as an intermediary between the client and the broker.
Learn more → - ISM
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Acronym for Institute of Supply Management.
Learn more → - ISM Manufacturing Index
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The ISM Manufacturing Index, put out by the Institute for Supply Management, is one of the most prominent releases having to do with the manufacturing sector. It surveys 300 manufacturing firms from 20 industries in all 50 states. The survey gauges the firms on employment, production, new orders, supplier deliveries, and inventories
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J
- Jean-Pierre Roth
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The Chairman of the Swiss National Bank from 2006 - 2009.
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K
- Kase CD
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An oscillator derived from the Kase Peak Oscillator by measuring the difference between the Kase Peak Oscillator and its moving average.
Learn more → - Kase Peak Oscillator
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A rate-0f-change derivative that automatically adapts for cycle length and volatility.
Learn more → - Kaufman Moving Average
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A moving average that automatically adjusts its speed based on market volatility.
Learn more → - Kaufman's Efficiency Ratio
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An oscillator that compares the market speed to volatility in an attempt to identify choppy versus smooth markets.
Learn more → - Keltner Bands
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A derivative of the Keltner channel with a calculation using the ATR.
Learn more → - Keltner Channel
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A technical indicator plotted as 2 bands on each side of the 10-day simple moving average.
Learn more → - Kilroy
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Slang term for a reverse head and shoulder.
Learn more → - Kurtosis Indicator
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The Kurtosis Indicator is used to help determine market sentiment.
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L
- Leverage
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The ratio between the total amount invested and the actual investment used for margin.
Learn more → - Linear Regression Acceleration
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A technical indicator that plots the change in the regression lines normlized slope that attempts to reflect trend strength.
Learn more → - Linear Regression Indicator
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A technical indicator that attempts to follow the trend of the market but is plotted as a dynamic and but not straight like the linear regression line.
Learn more → - Linear Regression Slope
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The normalized change in theoretical regression lines of the current and specified periods period of bars.
Learn more → - Liquidity
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The degree of an asset's ability to be converted to cash at its fair market price.
Learn more → - Long Position
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Action taken by a trader or investor to buy a financial instrument in anticipation of rising value.
Learn more → - Lot
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A standard trading term referring to an order of 100,000 unit.
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M
- MACD
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Short for Moving Average Convergence/Divergence - a technical indicator that is based on the spread between two moving averages.
Learn more → - Marabuzo
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A candlestick with a large body with no tail, where the high and low matches the open and close.
Learn more → - Margin
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A required amount for deposit in order to purchase a larger position of a financial instrument on leverage.
Learn more → - Margin Call
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Action taken by the dealer to close part or the entire position when the amount in margin drops below requirement.
Learn more → - Mark Carney
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Governor of the Bank of Canada (2008- present).
Learn more → - Market Facilitation Index
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A technical indicator that attempts to assess the "efficiency" of market moves by comparing price action with volume.
Learn more → - Market Maker
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A specialized dealer in a particular financial instrument that makes a two-way market by quoting both bid and ask prices.
Learn more → - Masaaki Shirakawa
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Governor of the Policy Board, which controls the Bank of Japan.
Learn more → - Mass Index
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An oscillator that attempts to warn of trend reversals by measuring the narrowing and widening of the average range between the high and low prices.
Learn more → - McClellan Histogram
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A visual representation of the McClellan Oscillator and its signal line.
Learn more → - McClellan Oscillator
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A technical indicator that reflects the market breadth based on advancing/declining statistics.
Learn more → - McClellan Summation Index
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Learn more → - McGinley Dynamic
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A moving average type of technical indicator that adjusts itself relative to the speed of the market.
Learn more → - Mervyn Alllister King
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The Governor of the Bank of England (2003 - ).
Learn more → - Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
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The members of the Bank of England who meet decide on interest rates and other policies with the purpose of price stablility as well as growth and employment.
Learn more → - Money Flow Index
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An oscillator that uses a similar calculation to the RSI's using volume to weigh the average price values before summing.
Learn more → - Moving Average
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The average price or level over a specified period.
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N
- National Association of Security Dealers (NASD)
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A self-regulatory securities industry organization that was responsible for the operations of the stock market as well as over the counter market. Consequently, it also monitored the forex market.
Learn more → - National Futures Association (NFA)
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A private-sector and self regulated organization that acts as a watchdog against investment fraud.
Learn more → - Neckline
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In charting pattern formation, the base of a Head and Shoulder.
Learn more → - New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
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Learn more → - Noise
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A term used to indicate price movements that cannot be explained by fundamental nor technical factors
Learn more → - Non-Farm Payroll (NFP)
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A fundamental indicator released the first Friday of every month by the US department of labor regarding employment outside of farming.
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O
- Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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UK's official statistics office that releases economic figures.
Learn more → - Official Cash Rate (OCR)
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The interest rate set by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand(RBNZ) for its overnight money market.
Learn more → - On Balance Volume (OBV)
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A technical indicator that measures the cumulative positive and negative volume flow in and out of a trading instrument.
Learn more → - Open Market Operations
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The selling and buying of government securities and other financial instruments by the Federal Reserve Bank.
Learn more → - Options
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A contract that grants the buyer of the contract the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell at a specified price on or before a future expiration date
Learn more → - Oscillator
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A classification of technical indicators where the indicator reading travels up and down a center-line.
Learn more → - Over-the-Counter (OTC)
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Term to describe a market that for securities/currencies not in a listing, but is traded through network of banks and brokerages.
Learn more → - Overbought
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The condition where a market rally has extended past fair value.
Learn more → - Oversold
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The condition of the market when is has declined past the fair value.
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P
- Parabolic SAR
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A trailing price indicator that accelerates with the market.
Learn more → - Pennant Pattern
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A chart pattern formation with the shape of a triangle that represents a consolidation and is sometimes interpreted as a continuation pattern.
Learn more → - Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO)
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A momentum oscillator with some trend-following characteristics using moving averages.
Learn more → - Pip
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The smallest increment in a currency's price movement.
Learn more → - Polarized Fractal Efficiency (PFE)
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A technical indicator that reflects the trendiness or choppiness of the market.
Learn more → - Price Volume Trend (PVT)
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A cumulative total of volume adjusted to the relative changes in the instrument’s prices.
Learn more → - Purchasing Managers Index (PMI)
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An economic index that measures the manufacturing conditions and performance during a specific period.
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Q
- Quantitative Qualitative Estimation (QQE)
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An oscillator that is derived from the RSI and reflects momentum of the market.
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R
- R-Squared
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A linear regression method that helps quantify the strength of market trends (i.e. “trendiness of prices).
Learn more → - Rainbow Charts
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A trend-following indicator that uses a recursive smoothing on a 2-period simple moving average.
Learn more → - Rainbow Oscillator
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A trend-following indicator that is based on the same calculations used to create the Rainbow Charts. The Rainbow Oscillator is derived from a consensus of the Rainbow Charts trends. It defines the highest high and lowest low of those moving averages to create an oscillator and bandwidth lines based on those calculations.
Learn more → - Rally
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A significant rise in price.
Learn more → - Range
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Containment of prices in sideways action.
Learn more → - Range Action Verification Index
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A technical indicator that helps to identify whether the market is trending.
Learn more → - Range Trading
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Also Range-Bound-Trading: A trading method catered to a period where the price fluctuates between definable support and resistance.
Learn more → - Rate of Change (ROC)
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An oscillator that measures momentum that compares the current price with that of a selected number of periods ago.
Learn more → - Recursive Moving Trend Average
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A Moving Average type of indicator that attempts to identify trends and trend changes.
Learn more → - Relative Momentum Index (RMI)
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A variation on the RSI indicator that reflects the momentum of the market. Instead of comparing price to the previous day's, the RMI allows the user to look back a specific number of days.
Learn more → - Relative Strength Index (RSI)
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A popular oscillator that compares a trading instrumentals magnitude of recent gains against losses to reflect the momentum of the market.
Learn more → - Relative Volatility Index (RVI)
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An oscillator similar to the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and measures the direction of volatility.
Learn more → - Renminbi (RMB)
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The national currency of the People's Republic of China.
Learn more → - Repatriation
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The most basic definition for repatriation is the process of converting foreign currency into the currency of a person's or company's home currency.
Learn more → - Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)
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The central bank of Australia.
Learn more → - Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ)
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The central bank of New Zealand whos main purpose is to maintain efficiency and stability of New Zealand's economy and financial system.
Learn more → - Resistance
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A price or set of projected prices that represent levels from which the market declines or could potentially decline.
Learn more → - Retail Sales
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Retail sales measure the total receipts at stores that sell durable and non-durable goods, including restaurants and drinking places. Retail sales give us a sense of how much consumers are spending. The retail trade sector makes up about 15% of US GDP and 15% of its employment spending and is a good measure of the aggregate demand in the economy.
Learn more → - Reversal
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The discontinuation of a trend and a subsequent move in the opposite direction.
Learn more → - Risk Appetite
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The willingness to take certain risks for a potential gain.
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S
- Scalper
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A trader whose method is based on a very short-term time-frame.
Learn more → - Schaff Trend Cycle (STC)
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A technical indicator that attempts to identify the direction of a trend as well as a trend's cyclical tops and bottoms.
Learn more → - Short Position
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Action taken by a trader or investor to sell a financial instrument in anticipation of falling value.
Learn more → - Squeeze
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A scenario where price range becomes very narrow, and volatility becomes extremely quiet, often seen as the "calm before the storm".
Learn more → - Stochastic Momentum Index (SMI)
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A smoothed out version of the Stochastic Oscillator that compares the close not to the high or low like the classic formula, but to the midpoint of price action range.
Learn more → - Stochastic Oscillator
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A technical indicator that oscillates and reflects the momentum of the market.
Learn more → - Stochastic RSI Oscillator
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A technical indicator combining two commonly used oscillators.
Learn more → - Stoller Average Range Channels (STARC Bands)
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A technical indicator providing an ATR based volatility band around the price.
Learn more → - Straight Through Processing
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The ability for an entire trade to be processed without certain intermediaries such as a dealing desk.
Learn more → - Support
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A price or set of projected prices that represent levels from which the market rallies or could potentially rally.
Learn more → - Symmetrical Triangle
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A chart pattern representing a period of congestion with no bias.
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- T3 Moving Average
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A variation on the traditional moving average in an attempt to reduce lag.
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A method of assessing historic data in order to anticipate or forecast future moves in the market.
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Any tool used to assess the market based on price data.
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The smallest increment of price movement for a particular instrument.
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A measurement of trading activity that represents the size of the contract.
Learn more → - Toshihiko Fukui
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Governor of the Bank of Japan 2003-2008.
Learn more → - Trailing Stoploss Levels (Volatility-Based)
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A technical indicator that attempts to provide stop loss levels for both a long and short position.
Learn more → - Trailing Stoploss Reversal Level
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A technical indicator that suggests levels to exit and possible entry in the other direction.
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The direction of the market whether upwards, sideways, or downwards.
Learn more → - Trend Continuation Factor
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A technical indicator that attempts to identify market trend direction and strength.
Learn more → - Trend Intensity Index (TII)
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A technical indicator that indicates the strength of the current trend.
Learn more → - Trend Oscillator (TOSC)
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An oscillating technical indicator that tries to filter out the noise to identify trends.
Learn more → - Trend Trigger Factor (TTF)
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An oscillating technical indicator that attempts to identify trends.
Learn more → - Trendline
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A line connecting either the highs or lows of market action.
Learn more → - Triangle
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A chart pattern representing congestion with higher lows and lower highs forming the shape of a triangle.
Learn more → - Triple Bottom
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A chart pattern with three failed attempts to create a low, suggesting a reversal against the previous decline.
Learn more → - Triple Exponential Average (TRIX)
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An oscillating technical indicator that attempts to identify cycles as well as reflect the momentum.
Learn more → - Triple Exponential Moving Average (TEMA)
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A variation on traditional moving averages in an attempt lessen the lag of the regular exponential moving average.
Learn more → - Triple Top
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A chart pattern with three failed attempts to create a new high, suggesting a reversal against the previous rally.
Learn more → - True Strength Index (TSI)
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A technical indicator that reflects the strength of the trend as well as attempt to identify overbought and oversold conditions.
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- Ultimate Oscillator
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A momentum technical indicator that attempts to determine overbought and oversold conditions.
Learn more → - Unemployment Rate
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The percent of those who are able and willing and legal to work but can not get a job.
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- V-Formation
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A chart pattern reflecting quick price reversal suggesting a strong move against the prevalent trend.
Learn more → - Variable Index Dynamic Average (VIDYA)
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A volatility based moving average developed by Tushar Chande.
Learn more → - Volatility
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A measure of price fluctuation.
Learn more → - Volatility Index (VIX)
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Also known as the fear index, or fear gauge, VIX is a measure of the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options and represents expectations of market stock volatility in the next 30 days.
Learn more → - Volume
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A measure of the level of trading activity.
Learn more → - Volume Price Confirmation Indicator (VPCI)
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A technical indicator that looks at the relationship between volume and price in an attempt to assess whether a trend will continue.
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- Wedge Pattern
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A chart pattern with converging support and resistance going against the trend usually reflecting a period of consolidation or congestion.
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An occurrence when a technical signal or price action itself suggests a reversal or a breakout, but the market does not follow through; a fake-out.
Learn more → - Williams Percent Range (%R)
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A technical indicator that measures momentum and attempts to determine when the market is overbought or oversold.
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- Yuan
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The national currency of the People's Republic of China.
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Z
- Zig Zag
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A corrective wave according to Elliott Wave Principles that travel in an ABC sequence.
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