Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Tower of Forex - Reaching each other using Terminology

By Tom K Kearns

If it is not enough that God came down from the heavens to see the Tower of Babel, and then separate each soul by a foreign language so that they could not talk to one another but now here lies a terminology, a language, to be used amongst the masses of foreign exchange so that they can understand one another leaving non-Forex citizens out of the loop.

Although the terminology used by the foreign exchange inhabitants makes perfect sense to themselves it all sounded like babble to me when I set out to learn it. Traders know best the language of shortened phrases, acronyms, and idioms that explains what they want during speeches of exchanges and trades. Any new or experienced Forex civilian must learn and be comfortable with the language.

Without any question, not being educated and fully prepped in this speech to converse with fellow speakers you will be left in the dust. Confused by the terminology or not being aware of sayings they use, you can forget about embarking on the career of a Forex trader all together. At lease for now.

The leading financial market of the world is Forex which trades all global currencies in real time. The basic language is a must to shine at all in the Forex market.

Terminology in the basics

The basic terminology of the Forex globe, in the least, must be known to get by.

1) Bullish- having the general tendency to trade on the long side of a currency pair and having the belief that pair will increase in price.

Bearish, if you are bearish you will have a general tendency to trade on the short side of a currency pair and believe that pair will decrease in price.

Going long refers to buying a currency pair with the hope that the price will go up.

Going short means that you sell a currency that is not yet owned by you, the trader. The hope here is that the price will go down and you can but the currency pair back at a lower price than you sold it at.

Pip, as funny as it may sound, is popular as well. A pip is simply the smallest price change that a currency pair can make. It generally is equal to 10USD on full size lots of 100,000.

The offering of information to the seller on the variety of prices being offered is Range. It also the highest and lowest prices of the currencies.

There are tons of websites, and dictionaries that offer a full range of definitions for the Forex world of language. If you are interested in a Forex trading career you must be fully prepped on the terminology needed for conversation. If you are not you will be one of the lost souls roaming around not being able to talk to any of your fellow Forex inhabitants. And nobody wants that, do you?

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