Trading Glossary
- Above the Market
- Accounting Currency
- Accounts Payable
- Accredited Investor
- Accumulation Period
- Amman Financial Market (AFM)
- Amortization
- Amsterdam Exchange (AEX)
- At-the-money
- Back Testing
- Backwardation
- Balance Sheet
- Base Metals
- Bear Call Spread
- Bear Market
- Bear Put Spread
- Bear Straddle
- Beta
- Big Mac Index
- Binary Option
- Bull Call Spread
- Bull Put Spread
- Butterfly Spread
- Butterfly Strategy
- Calendar Spread
- Call Diagonal Spread
- Capital Requirements Directive
- Capitalization
- CBOE Volatility Index (VIX)
- CD Ladder
- Central Bank
- Central banking stance
- Collar
- Commercial Paper
- Commodity Currencies
- Correction
- Covered Call
- Covered Option and Covered Call
- Current Price
- Day Trader
- Deep in the Money
- Delta
- Depth of Market
- Domicile
- Earnings Per Share (EPS)
- Elliott Wave Theory
- Entry Point
- European Option
- Exotic Currency
- Flat
- Forex Charting Software
- Hedging
- High option
- High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
- Historical Volatility
- Inbound option
- Index fund or Index ETF
- Interest Rate Differential
- Intrinsic Value and Extrinsic Value (of an option)
- Iron Butterfly
- Iron Condor
- Japanese Candlestick Chart
- LEAPS
- Leverage
- Liquidity
- Long Straddle
- Long Straddle
- Macro Fund
- Maintenance call
- Margin Requirement
- Market Price
- Market risk appetite
- Market Volatility
- Modern Portfolio Theory
- Money center
- Moving Average
- Naked Call
- Naked Option
- Net Long
- Net Option Premium
- Neural Network
- No touch option
- Non-Equity Options
- North Sea Brent Crude
- Nova/Ursa Ratio
- NYMEX
- Open Interest
- Open market operations
- Option Collar
- Option Contract
- Option Pricing Model
- Options on Futures
- Options Regulators
- Out of the Money
- Outright Option
- Over Hedged
- Overnight Forex Position
- Overvalued
- Pairs Trade
- Paper Trade
- Perfect Hedge
- Physical Delivery
- Pivot Point
- Plain Vanilla Option
- Portal
- Potential Return
- Put Option
- Put Ratio Spread
- Put-Call Ratio
- Pyramiding
- Quadruple Witching
- Quantitative Easing
- Regulated
- Relative Strength
- Reserve portfolio
- Reverse Gold ETF
- Risk
- Scalping
- Sector ETF
- Security
- Short Squeeze
- Side Pocket
- Specialist
- Spot Price
- Stop Order
- Strike Price
- Support Level
- The 2% Rule
- The Sharpe ratio
- Trade Signal
- Trading Platform
- Transactions Cost & Slippage
- Treasuries
- Triple Exponential Moving Average – TEMA
- Turtle Trading Strategy
- U.S. Dollar Index – USDX
- Ultimate Oscillator
- Ultra ETF
- Underlying Asset
- Undervalued
- Unsystematic Risk
- Unwind a Position
- Value at Risk
- Williams Percent Range Indicator Strategy (Williams %R)
Over the course of your trading, you will come across many terms and ideas which perhaps you don’t fully understand at first. While it’s easy to try your hand at trading, the more you understand about how the financial markets work, the better will be your trading edge. This page explores some of the main concepts you will come across as a financial trader.
