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265 terms

1% Rule A-book ABCD Pattern Algorithmic trading AML (Anti-Money Laundering)Anti-Martingale System AUD/USD (the aussie)Average Directional Index (ADX)Average True Range (ATR)B-book Backtesting Balance Bank of Canada (BoC)Bank of England (BoE)Bank of Japan (BoJ)Base currency Bat Pattern Belka tax (19% Polish capital gains tax)bid and ask (bid-ask prices)Black Swan Event Bollinger Bands Bollinger Band Squeeze Break-Even Breaker Block Breakout Butterfly Pattern Caixin Manufacturing PMI (China)Calmar Ratio Carry Trade Cent account Central Bank Meeting Minutes Central Bank Rate Decision Central banks CFD (contract for difference)Change of Character (ChoCh)Commercial banks Commission Commitment of Traders (COT) Report Commodity Currencies Compound Position Sizing Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR)Confluence (Multiple Signals)Consumer Price Index (CPI)Consumer Sentiment Index Copy trading Corporations (treasury hedging)Crab Pattern cTrader Platform Currency Pair Correlation Currency Strength Meter Cypher Pattern CySEC Regulation Dark pools in forex Dealing desk Demo account Divergence Diversification Doji Candle Donchian Channel Dot Plot (Fed Funds Rate Projections)Double Bottom Double Top Drawdown DXY (U.S. Dollar Index)ECN broker Economic Calendar Economic Data Releases Elliott Wave Engulfing Pattern Equity ESMA regulation EUR/GBP EUR/JPY EUR/USD European Central Bank (ECB)Evening Star Exotic Pairs Expectancy Expert Advisor (EA)Exponential Moving Average (EMA)Fair Value Gap (FVG)Fakeout FCA Regulation Fear and Greed Federal Reserve (Fed)Fibonacci Extension Fibonacci Retracement Fixed spread Flag Floating P/L FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)Forex Liquidity Free margin (available margin)Gartley Pattern GBP/JPY GBP/USD (Cable)Gold (XAU/USD)Gross Domestic Product (GDP)Hammer Harami Harmonic Pattern Hawkish vs Dovish Head and Shoulders Hedge funds in forex Hedging Heikin-Ashi Candles Herd Mentality Hidden Divergence High-frequency trading (HFT)Ichimoku Cloud (Ichimoku Kinko Hyo)ifo Business Climate Index (Germany)Inflation Initial Jobless Claims Inside Bar Interbank Market Interest Rate Parity (IRP)Islamic account (swap-free)ISM Manufacturing PMI (United States)Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)Kagi Charts Kelly Criterion KNF Regulation KYC (Know Your Customer)Last look Leverage Leverage caps Limit order Liquidity Liquidity providers London Fix (4PM Fix)London Session Long position (bullish position)Loss Aversion Lot (position unit)MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)Major Pairs Margin (deposit margin)Margin call Margin Level Market maker Market order Martingale System Marubozu Maximum Drawdown Mean Reversion MetaTrader 4 (MT4)MetaTrader 5 (MT5)Micro lot (0.01 lot)mini lot (0.1 lot)Minor Pairs (Cross Pairs)Momentum Oscillator Monetary Policy Monte Carlo simulation Morning Star Moving Average (MA)Negative balance protection New York Session Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP)NZD/USD (Kiwi)OBV (On-Balance Volume)Order Block Order execution Order flow Order Flow Analysis OTC market (over-the-counter)Overconfidence Bias PAMM account Parabolic SAR (Stop And Reverse)Payment for order flow (PFOF)Payout PCE Price Index (Fed's Preferred Inflation Gauge)Pending order (conditional order)Pennant Pin Bar (Pinocchio Bar)Pip PIT-38 Pivot Points Point Polish LLC (sp. z o.o.) with 9% CIT Portfolio Risk Position size (lot quantity)Position Sizing Price Action Price gap Prime brokerage Prop firm (proprietary trading firm)Pullback Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)Pyramiding Quantitative Easing (QE)quote currency (counter currency)Rate Hike vs Rate Cut Realized P/L Recency Bias Regular Divergence Relative Strength Index (RSI)Renko Charts Requote Retail Sales Retail vs institutional traders Retracement Revenge Trading Risk-Reward Ratio Rollover (position renewal)Segregated accounts Session Overlap Settlement (T+2)Sharpe Ratio Shooting Star Short position Simple Moving Average (SMA)Slippage Smart Money Concepts (SMC)Smart Money Concepts (SMC)SNB Intervention (Swiss National Bank)Social trading Sole proprietorship (JDG) vs LLC (sp. z o.o.)Sortino Ratio Spinning Top Spot (immediate settlement)spread (bid-ask spread)Stochastic Oscillator Stop hunting Stop loss Stop order Stop out STP broker Support and Resistance Support and Resistance swap (overnight charge)Swing High Swing Low Sydney Session Tail Risk Take profit (TP)Tankan Survey (BoJ Business Sentiment)Tax residency Three Black Crows Three White Soldiers Tier-1 dealers (market makers)Tilt Tokyo Session Trade Balance Trading Discipline Trading Journal Trading Plan TradingView Trailing stop Trend Trend Strength Triangle Triple swap (Wednesday charge)Unemployment Rate USD/CAD (Loonie)USD/JPY Value at Risk (VaR)Variable spread Volatility Indicator Volume Profile VPS (Virtual Private Server)Walk-forward analysis Wedge Weekend gap Win Rate Wyckoff Method