Forex Terms

At this time I want to tell to you about the terms used in forex trading.

Alligator

is a concept of technical indicators from Bill Williams to determine price trends. Is a combination of three (3) fruit and the Moving Average: 5,8,13. You can use it on the graph M30 (30 minutes) & H1 (1 hour). This indicator can be found on the MetaTrader software.


Technical Analysis

is an analysis in Forex trading to measure price movements over the price graph. The things that should be known from this technical analysis is the trend, saturation, support, ressisten, and Pivot Points.



Fundamental Analysis

is an analysis in Forex trading to predict price movements based on fundamental news. News here in the form Fundamental economic news, affiliated, and security that affect price movement.



Buy

is the position in Forex Trading for the Buy. Condition is if the price was going up significantly then you can open a Buy position.



Fibonacci

is a branch of the particular technical indicators to determine areas of support-ressisten. The most famous and easy to use the Fibonacci Retracement. Other families are Fibonacci Arc, Ekspansion. Fibonacci device you can also find the Metatrader software.



Forex

is an investment that trade one currency with another currency. Is an abbreviation of Foreign Exhange or exchange foreign currency.



Leverage

Is the leverage in Forex trading, where the comparison factor will be multiplied by the contract size.

Example is 1:200 with a mini contract is 10,000 margin account is used (1:200) x 10,000 = 50 units traded currencies.

For example an open position USD / JPY the margin used is $ 50. If trade with the GBP / USD then the margin is used for 50 Pounds Sterling. If converted to dollars is 50 times the rate of GBP / USD. Eg rate GBP / USD is at 1.4000 rate. Then used margin is 50 x 1.4000 = $ 70

For Standard accounts, contracts used by 100,000 Leverage is 1:100. The average opening of accounts per lot is $ 1000.



Margin

is guaranteed in forex trading. This term is associated with leverage. If Leverage 1:100 for mini accounts (10,000 contracts), the margin is used for 100 units of currency. Trading USD / CHF with a margin of $ 100. Trading EUR / USD to 100 euros or $ 130 if the rate of EUR / USD when it is at 1.3000.



Pip

is the value of 1 point rise or drop in price movements. For a mini account, 1 point is worth $ 1, for the standard account is $ 10.



Ressistent

are the points that are above the current price. Point of support can be drawn from the line at Fibonacci Retracement Time Frame H1 & H4.



Support

are the points that are below the current price. Point of support can be drawn from the line at Fibonacci Retracement Time Frame H1 & H4.



Zig Zag

is a technical analysis tool to determine trends and support-ressisten prices.