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Pip Value & Margin

One of the first decisions you’ll need to make as a trader when initiating your investment process is choosing a trading volume you can apply to your positions. The choice of trading volume will depend on many psychological factors such as emotional comfort and risk aversion, but the choice of trading volume will also be highly connected with the risk management that you plan to apply.

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Retail Sales Index (RPI)

The Retail Sales Index is a measure of inflation published monthly by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the United Kingdom. The RPI measures the change in the costs of a basket of goods and services.

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Security Deposit

In this article, you can find a few key points to keep in mind when it comes to leverage.

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Being short on the market means that you are selling some marketable assets, expecting the financial instruments to lose value. The reverse of a short position is a long position.

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The spread is the difference between the buy (ask) and the sell (bid) price of an instrument.

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What Is a Stop-Loss Order?

In this article, we take a look at what is a stop-loss order, how stop-loss orders work, and why it’s a good idea to implement them in your trading strategy.

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Swaps and Charges

Trades placed on a Standard account are free from commission. The cost of trading is already built into the spread.

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What is the Swiss National Bank (SNB)?

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is the central bank of Switzerland, established in 1907 with headquarters in Bern and Zurich.

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The Two Faces of a High Frequency Trade

High Frequency Trading (HFT) is present in different financial activities and is used by investment funds (hedge funds), private investors, investment banks, brokers, etc. An appropriate definition could be: the execution of investment strategies based on computer programs or opportunity capture algorithms that may be small or exist for a very short period of time.

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Trading from the Chart

Trading from a chart enables you to place and edit orders directly on a chart. Find out more about it in this short and comprehensive article.

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Triple Witching Day

The Triple Witching Day is also often referred to as the triple expiration date. Find out why this is an important for traders in this article.

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Vanilla Options

Vanilla-type options are the classic options par excellence. They are the type of option that investors with experience in options will know or have worked with.

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What is Volatility?

Volatility refers to the amount of uncertainty, risk and fluctuations that occur on the market and, most often, to the amount of price changes over a given period on the financial markets.

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What Are Basis Points (BP)?

A Basis Point measures the change in interest rates and other percentages. Find out more about it in this article.

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What Are Interest Rates?

Interest rates can be defined as a percentage fee for a specific amount that we borrow. The value of the interest rate is measured in percentage and is generally expressed in annual terms.

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What Is a Derivative?

A derivative is a type of financial instrument that is not a security, but whose value depends on the underlying instrument, e.g. the index, stock or bond price.

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What is a Hammer?

The hammer is a reversal candlestick pattern formed on bottoms. A hammer occurs in a candlestick when an instrument trades significantly lower than its opening, but rallies later in the day either above or near its opening price.

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What Is a Carry Trade?

A carry trade is a technique used in international markets that seeks to take advantage of the differences between the interest rates of two currencies.

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What Is Chart Analysis?

Chart analysis is the branch of technical analysis that takes into account only price quotes. It is the purest technical analysis available and only pays attention to past price movements to create a future approximation of asset prices.

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BETA is a measure of the volatility of shares compared to the entire market or index, e.g. US500 or DE30. BETA can also be generally defined as a relatively correlated variable.

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