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FOREX GLOSSARY

Backwardation
Term referring to the amount that the spot price exceeds the forward price.

Balance of Payments
A record of a nations claims of transactions with the rest of the world over a particular time period. These include merchandise, services and capital flows.

Balance of Trade
The value of a country's exports minus its imports.

Band
The range in which a currency is permitted to move. A system used in the ERM.

Banking day (or Business day)
Any day that commercial banks are open for business in the financial center of the country whose currency a position is taken.

Bank Line
Line of credit granted by a bank to a customer, also known as a "line."

Bank of Japan or BOJ
The central bank of Japan.

Bank Note
Paper issued by the central bank, redeemable as money and considered to be full legal tender

Bank Rate
The rate at which a central bank is prepared to lend money to its domestic banking system.

Bar Chart
A type of chart which consists of four significant points: the high and the low prices, which form the vertical bar, the opening price, which is marked with a little horizontal line to the left of the bar, and the closing price, which is marked with a little horizontal line of the right of the bar

Base Currency
The currency in which an investor or issuer maintains its book of accounts; the currency that other currencies are quoted against. In the forex market, the US Dollar is normally considered the `base` currency for quotes, meaning that quotes are expressed as a unit of $1 USD per the other currency quoted in the pair

Base Rate
A term used predominantly in the UK for the rate used by banks to calculate the interest rate charged to borrowers. Top quality borrowers will pay a small amount over base rate while lesser quality credits will pay a rate much higher than the base rate.

Basis
The difference between the cash price and futures price.

Basis Point
One hundredth of a percent

Basis Trading
Taking opposite positions in the cash and futures market with the intention of profiting from favorable movements in the basis.

Bear
An investor who believes that price of an investment product is going to fall.

Bear Market
A market distinguished by a prolonged period of declining prices accompanied with widespread pessimism.

Bear Squeeze
The condition in the market where investors or traders who are short an investment product are forced to cover their position because a rising market condition, has inflicted losses on the account

Best-Efforts Basis
The execution of an order at the next available price taking into consideration the volume available to buy or sell at that price and the quantity and volume of orders that precede the customers order.

BID
Dealer phrase referring to the first few digits of an exchange rate. These digits rarely change in normal market fluctuations, and therefore are omitted in dealer quotes, especially in times of high market activity. For example, a USD/Yen rate might be 107.30/107.36, but would be quoted verbally without the first three digits i.e. "30/36".

Big Figure
The first two or three digits of a foreign exchange price or rate. Examples: USD/JPY rate of 110.00/06 the big figure is 110. GBP/USD price of 1.8450 the big figure is 1.84

Book
In a professional trading environment,a “book” is the summary of a trader’s or desk’s total positions

Bonds
Bonds are tradable instruments (debt securities) which are issued by a borrower to raise capital. They pay either fixed or floating interest, known as the coupon. As interest rates fall, bond prices rise and vice versa.

Break or Break out
Term used to describe a sudden or rapid fall in instruments pricing away from a consolidated range.

Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944
An agreement that established fixed foreign exchange rates for major currencies, provided for central bank intervention in the currency markets, and pegged the price of gold at US $35 per ounce. The agreement lasted until 1971, when President Nixon overturned the Bretton Woods agreement and established a floating exchange rate for the major currencies

Broker
An individual, or firm, that acts as an intermediary, putting together buyers and sellers usually for a fee or commission. In contrast, a `dealer` commits capital and takes one side of a position, hoping to earn a spread (profit) by closing out the position in a subsequent trade with another party.

Brokerage
Commission charged by a broker.

Buba
Bundesbank, Central Bank of Germany

Bull
An investor who believes that prices/the market will rise.

Bull Market
A market distinguished by a prolonged period of rising prices. (Opposite of bear market)

Business Day
Any day on which commercial banks are open for business other than Saturday or Sunday in the principal financial center of the country in whose currency a position is taken.

Buying Rate
Rate at which the market and a market maker in particular is willing to buy the currency. Sometimes called bid rate.

Buy Limit
Specifies the highest price at which the purchase of the Base Currency in a Currency Pair can be executed. The limit price in a Buy limit order should be BELOW the current dealing Ask price.

Buy On Margin
The process of buying a currency pair where a client pays cash for part of the overall value of the position. The word margin refers to the portion the investor puts up rather than the portion that is borrowed.

Buy Stop
A Buy Stop is a Stop Order that is placed ABOVE the current dealing Ask price and is not activated until the market Ask price is at or above the Stop Price. The buy stop order, once triggered, becomes a market order to buy at the current market price.

FOREX GLOSSARY

OCO - One Cancels the Other
A contingent order where the execution of one part of the order automatically cancels the other part.

Odd Lot
A non standard amount for a transaction.

OECD
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development. Membership is the more than developed countries.

Offer(ask)
The price at which a dealer is willing to sell. The Offer is also called the Ask or Ask Price.

Offered market
Temporary situation where offers exceed bid

Offset
The closing-out or liquidation of a futures position.

Official Settlements Account
A U.S. balance of payments measure based on movement of dollars in foreign official holdings and US reserves. Also referred to as reserve transaction account

Old Lady
Old lady of Threadneedle Street, a term for the Bank of England, the central bank of England.

Omnibus Account
An account maintained by one broker with another in which all of the accounts of the former are combined and carried only in its name, rather than designated separately.

Open Interest
The total number of outstanding option or futures contracts that have not been closed out by offset or fulfilled by delivery

Open Market Operations
Central Bank operations in the markets to influence exchange and interest rates.

Open Order
An order that will be executed when a market moves to its designated price. Normally associated with Good 'til Cancelled Orders.

Open Outcry
A public auction method of trading conducted by calling out bids and offers across a trading ring or pit and having them accepted.

Open Position
The difference between assets and liabilities in a particular currency. This may be measured on a per currency basis or the position of all currencies when calculated in base currency.

Options
An agreement that allows the holder to have the option to buy/sell a specific security at a certain price within a certain time. Two types of options – call and put. A call is the right to buy while a put is the right to sell. One can write or buy call and put options.

Option Class
All options of the same type - calls or puts -listed on the same underlying instrument

Option Contract
A financial contract giving the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to purchase or sell a specific forex contract (the underlying) at a specific price (the strike price) on or before a specific date (the expiration date). The amount the buyer pays to the seller for the contract rights is called the "premium."

Option Premium
The amount the buyer pays to the seller for the rights of an option contract.

Option Series
All options of the same class having the same exercise/strike price and expiration date.

Order
An order is an instruction, from a client to a broker to trade. An order can be placed at a specific price or at the market price. Also, it can be good until filled or until close of business.

OTC/Over The Counter
A market conducted directly between dealers and principals via a telephone and computer network rather than a regulated exchange trading floor. These markets have not been very popular. They were never part of the Stock Exchange since they were seen as "unofficial". Each OTC firm operates a market in the shares of a restricted list of (generally small and little-known) companies. Sometimes the dealer simply puts would-be buyers and sellers together but does not take a position in the shares himself. These days OTC trading is seen as "consumer-friendly," meaning that it is interested in getting the buyer and seller the best possible price. Some see this as what share-trading is all about. However, market makers, many of whom create market movements purposefully, feel they are being elbowed out by OTC, and that speculation, arbitrage and "smart-trading" are undermined by the new market.

Out-of-the-Money
An option contract having no intrinsic value.

Outright Deal
A forward deal that is not part of a swap operation

Overnight limit
Net long or short position in one or more currencies that a dealer can carry over into the next dealing day. Passing the book to other bank dealing rooms in the next trading time zone reduces the need for dealers to maintain these unmonitored exposures.

Overhang
A holding of foreign exchange that is temporarily unable to be converted from the reserve currency into other reserve assets.

Overheated (Economy)
Is an economy where high-growth rates placing pressure on production capacity resulting in increased inflationary pressures and higher interest rates.

Overnight Limit
Net long or short position in one or more currencies that a dealer can carry over into the next dealing day. Passing the book to other bank dealing rooms in the next trading time zone reduces the need for dealers to maintain these unmonitored exposures.

Overnight Position
A trade that remains open until the next business day.

Oscillators
Quantitative methods designed to provide signals regarding the overbought and oversold conditions

FOREX GLOSSARY

Package Deal
When a number of exchange and /or deposit orders have to be fulfilled simultaneously.

Paris
A term for USD FRF Spot Rate.

Parity
The equivalent value of one currency in terms of another; also, sometimes used as a synonym for currency pair.

Parity Grid
A term used in the context of the European Monetary System which consists of the upper, central and lower intervention points between member currencies

Payment Date
A system where a currency moves in line with another currency, some pegs are strict while others have bands of movement.

Pegged
A system where a currency moves in line with another currency. Some pegs are strict while others have bands of movement.

Pending Orders Report
The Pending Orders report will show all the pending orders that the client has entered over the user specified dates whether the Pending Order is executed or not. Any Pending Order that is cancelled by the client will still be displayed, giving the client a full audit trail of the orders.

Petrodollars
Foreign exchange reserves of oil producing nations arising from oil sales

Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX)
The oldest U.S. securities exchange which offers currency futures and options on currency futures

Points, Pips
The term used in currency market to represent the smallest incremental move an exchange rate can make. Depending on context, normally one basis point (0.0001 in the case of EUR/USD, GBD/USD, USD/CHF and .01 in the case of USD/JPY).

Political Risk
Exposure to changes in governmental policy which will have an adverse effect on an investor's
position.

Portfolio Insurance
An option hedging strategy to protect long cash market positions.

Position
trading view expressed by buying or selling. It can refer to the amount of a currency either owned or owed by an investor.

Position Clerk
A clerk who assist the dealer in recording a dealers position and ensures that all deal tickets are completed and transferred to the back office or input into the books in a position keeping system.

Position Limit
The maximum position, either net long or net short, in one future or in all futures of one currency or instrument combined which may be held or controlled by one person.

Premium
In the currency markets, it is the amount of points added to the spot price to determine a forward or futures price.

Pre-Spot Dates
Quoted standard periods that fall between the transaction date and the current spot value date.

Price
The price at which the underlying currency can be bought or sold.

Price Transparency
The ability of all market participants to "see" or deal at the same price.

Prime Rate
(1) The rate from which lending rates by banks are calculated in the US.
(2) The rate of discount of prime bank bills in the UK

Primary Reserves
Gold related monetary reserves, being gold, SDR, etc.

Principal
A dealer who buys or sells stock for his/her own account.

Principal Value
The original amount invested by the client.

Producer Price Index
An economic indicator which gauges the average changes on prices received by domestic producers for their output at all stages of processing

Profit/Loss (P&L)
The actual "realized" gain or loss resulting from trading activities on Closed Positions, plus the theoretical "unrealized" gain or loss on Open Positions that have been Mark-to-Market.

Profit Graph
A graphical representation of the profits to a given options strategy for different underlying asset prices

Proxy Hedge
A term to describe when it is necessary to hedge against a currency where there is no market but it follows a major currency, the hedge is entered against the major currency.

Purchasing Power Parity
Model of exchange rate determination stating that the price of a good in one country should equal the price of the same good in another country, exchanged at the current rate. Also known as the law of one price

Put Option
A put option confers the right but not the obligation to sell currencies, instruments or futures at the option exercise price within a predetermined time period

Put Call Parity
The equilibrium relationship between premiums of call and put options of the same strike and expiry

Pyramiding
The use of cash generated by positive variation margins on a futures position to increase the size of the position, each reinvestment in successively smaller increments