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Introduction to Trading
Forex is a decentralized global market where all the world's currencies are traded against each other, and traders make a profit or loss from the currencies’ value changes. Forex Market is also known...
The financial market consists of many markets of different "specialization", such as the commodity market, the securities market, the foreign exchange market (Forex), the credit market. Each of them has...
Contracts for difference (CFD) is a contract between a buyer and a seller that specifies that the buyer must pay the seller the difference between the current value of the asset and its value at the time...
Leverage in Forex is the ratio of the trader's funds to the size of the broker's credit. In other words, leverage is a borrowed capital to increase the potential returns. The Forex leverage size usually...
Spread is the difference between Bid and Ask prices. It is calculated in pips. You can read more detailed about pip in our article "What is a pip in Forex". Spread could have a significant impact on the...
Margin trading is speculative buying and selling of assets using a brokerage firm's funds, which it lends against collateral.
Swap (Forex Rollover) is a charge or interest for holding trading positions overnight to the next forex trading day.
Forex Trading terminology is an integral part and every beginner trader should learn it, if haven't by now.