Displays all transactions in the trading account during a certain period of time, reflecting all the trading activities in the client's account. 

Account Statement Report

Investors' trading accounts often hold positions in a variety of different commodities and currencies, and the market price of all positions is summed up, which is the account value. Unlike account balances, account values include open positions. 

Account Value

The accumulation area indicates that commodities are being purchased implicitly for a period of time and continue to be absorbed by institutions, so the price performance will be more stable, while the trading volume will rise steadily. What is generally observed is that the volume rises while the price is flat. The term is often used in the stock market, and when a stacking area appears, it often represents that the bulls will continue to exert their buying pressure, which is a potential buying point before the stock price rises. 

Accumulation area

The accumulative swing index is a measure of the number of days in a bull or bear market. The index is calculated by using a running total of the Swing Index, looking at the Open, High, Low and Close over the last two bars to help traders identify the strength and direction of the market.

Accumulation Swing Index

Refers to the public address of a cryptocurrency wallet used to receive and send data during online transactions. 

ADDY

One of the monthly employment data in the United States, leading up to the Non-farm Payroll data release. The data, like non-farm payrolls, show changes in employment for the month. In actual observation, there is no direct correlation between ADP employment data and non-farm payrolls data, so it can only be used as a forward guide for non-farm payrolls data. 

ADP National Employment Report


Is an indicator of market breadth, which is derived by subtracting the number of falling stocks from the number of rising stocks. The practical usage is that when the ascending line is rising and the broader market is still breaking through the lows, it means that the bulls diverged and the market may subsequently reverse upwards; Conversely, when the rising line goes down and the broader market reaches a new high, it means that the bears diverged, and the market may reverse downwards after that. 

Advance/Decline Index

The currency of Afghanistan, abbreviated as Ani, abbreviated as AFA.  

Afghanistan Afghanis

An aggressor is one who buys large quantities at the current market price, thereby taking out several lines of depth if large enough. They can do this when buying or when selling and their orders are set for immediate execution.

Aggressor

A technical indicator created by Bill Williams that uses a moving average system to confirm price trends and directions. There are three crocodile lines, namely the lip line, the tooth line and the jaw line. According to the trajectory of the three lines, the crocodile line pattern is divided into rest, awakening, eating and fullness, and according to the pattern, the trend and fluctuation prediction of the future price will be very different.  

Alligator

Refers to the alternative currency of Bitcoin, it is a variant of Bitcoin. By using Bitcoin's open resources and initial protocol, and modifying the underlying code, a new token with different characteristics can be formed. Such as Litecoin, Dogecoin and so on. 

Altcoin

Regulatory terms for financial markets. Due to the huge flow of funds in the financial markets, illegal funds may be laundered through the financial markets. In terms of procedures, laws and norms, financial institutions need to prevent, detect and report money laundering by their customers or stakeholders. 

Anti-Money Laundering

An index that measures price movements in New Zealand's basket of export commodities, including 17 major export commodities. The rise in the index will increase the income of New Zealand exports and will directly affect the GDP to the NZD exchange rate. The index helps predict the future direction of global commodity prices. 

ANZ Commodity Price Index

Used for interaction between multiple software, it is a computing interface that allows users to make calls and requests through the API and extend existing functions. 

application programming interface

Currency appreciation is the increase in the value of one currency against another. For example, the rise of the euro against the US dollar can be called the appreciation of the euro, which is also the depreciation of the US dollar. There are many reasons for the appreciation of currencies, including trade surpluses, higher interest rates, deflation, and more. 

Appreciation

Through reverse trading of the same position, taking advantage of the pricing differences in different markets, buying low and selling high to make a profit. A typical arbitrage strategy in the foreign exchange market is triangular arbitrage, such as buying European and American currency pairs at the same time, selling the same position of the European pound and pound US currency pairs, and taking advantage of the pricing difference of the exchange rate to profit. 

Arbitrage

One of the technical indicators. Chande first proposed this indicator in mid-1995. The indicator consists of three parts, namely Aroon up, Aroon down, and the Aroon oscillator line. The function of the indicator is to identify new trends and determine the strength of the trend. The closer to the upper or lower line of 100 indicates that the trend is stronger and the closer to 0 the weaker. Usually the crossing of two lines is used as a signal for the start of the trend.  

Aroon Oscillator Indicator

For investors to draw a straight line from the lower left corner to the upper right corner of the price trend, the composition of the uptrend line needs at least two obvious lows to be connected, if the uptrend line connects the more lows, it can be considered that the stronger the effectiveness of this uptrend line, the more it has the effect of supporting when the price falls to the trend line position. 

Ascending Trend Line

An ascending triangle is a bullish formation that occurs when the price of the instrument rises while the short-term trading range widens. When a security breaks out of a triangle, it often has a dramatic rise. An ascending triangle is a chart pattern that occurs when prices rise, peak, and then reverse back down again. It's also commonly seen in the stock market and is a common indicator for technical analysis. 

Ascending Triangle

The statutory regulator of financial services and markets in Australia, all companies' registration, approval, disclosure and investment are regulated by ASIC. ASIC is committed to ensuring fairness and transparency in Australia's financial markets and is a fully independent federal government agency. 

ASIC

For individual stocks, liquidity refers to the speed at which assets are realized at the same price. Generally, companies and institutions need to maintain a certain amount of liquidity to cope with temporary expenditures and avoid poor capital turnover. Banks, in particular, have stricter requirements for asset liquidity under the Basel Accords to prevent a stampede cashing crisis. Generally speaking, secondary market stocks, short-term bonds, etc. are highly liquid assets, while real estate is a low-liquid asset. For the macroeconomy, liquidity refers to the total amount of money invested in the economic system, and the higher the liquidity, it often represents easing policies and economic stimulus. In a macro environment with high liquidity, the valuation of assets will be relatively improved. 

Asset Liquidity

Asset purchases are a form of central bank monetary policy and a means of quantitative easing. Central banks inject liquidity into the market by purchasing state bonds or other non-risky assets (e.g. corporate bonds, ETFs, etc.) to stimulate the market economy. The general target of asset purchase is the national bond issued by the government, and the government directly increases GDP and economic activity through fiscal expenditure, so the asset purchase program of many countries (such as the United States) is also called the bond purchase plan.  

Asset Purchases

Refers to things of value that can often be converted into cash. From an accounting perspective, an asset must be defined as something that generates cash flow in the future, such as a house, a security, or machinery. Outflows of funds that do not generate cash flow are defined as expenses. Assets are reflected in the company's balance sheet, while expenses are presented in the income statement. 

Assets

Australia's legal tender is one of the eight major currencies. 

One of the technical indicators. ATR is the moving average of the range of price fluctuations over a certain period of time, representing the severity of price fluctuations, and is often used in conjunction with other indicators or tools. You can use the average volatility amplitude to set the target and defense points, and you can also judge the phenomenon of overbought or oversold by the excessive volatility amplitude. 

Average True Range

The legal tender of Azerbaijan, code AZN. 

A bailin is a move in which a company sells its stock, usually at a discount. This is similar to a liquidation, but the company isn't being liquidated. Bailins are very effective at getting a company's stock price higher. The higher the stock price, the higher the potential for a company to raise equity capital.  

Bail-in

A bailout is a government intervention into the operations of a company to assist the company in staying afloat. A bailout may be used when a company is unable to meet its debt obligations or when it is in danger of failing. In some cases, a bailout can be a good thing, such as the company's operations are at risk and a bailout could save it. On the other hand, a bailout can negatively impact a company, and some companies have suffered from the bad business practices of their CEOs or board members.  

Bail-out

Refers to the difference between a country's total imports and total exports, generally using trade surplus to indicate that trade exports are greater than imports, and trade deficits indicate that trade exports are less than imports. This data directly shows the demand for foreign exchange in the country's currency, and the trade account is positive, indicating that the demand for local currency is greater than the demand for foreign currencies. 

Balance of Trade

One of the three major accounting statements, reflecting the company's assets (where the money is used), as well as liabilities and shareholders' equity (where the money comes from), allows readers to understand the static operation of the enterprise in a short period of time. The balance sheet is a stock statement that reflects the company's liquidity, debt ratio, capital structure, and various financial details at that time. "Shareholders' equity = asset-liability" is the core principle of the balance sheet.  

Balance Sheet

A bank levy is a type of taxation system on financial institutions of the United Kingdom in which banks are forced to pay government taxes over and above any normal corporate taxes that they may incur due to the risks they pose to the larger economy. A bank levy also refers to a situation in which a bank account is frozen due to a creditor’s legal attempt to get a debtor to repay its debt.

Bank Levy

Refers to the National Central Bank of Canada, established in 1934, with the core idea of promoting Canada's economic and financial soundness. 

Bank of Canada

Refers to the national central bank of the United Kingdom, founded in 1694 with a history of more than 300 years, and headquartered in London, England. The central bank aims to maintain monetary policy and financial stability. 

Bank of England

The Bank for International Settlements is a syndicate of central banks in a number of developed countries that provides financial services to central banks and international organizations, maintains the stability of central banks' monetary and fiscal policies, and promotes international cooperation. The Bank for International Settlements is the oldest national financial organization.  

Bank of International Settlement

An indicator of oil production, expressed in the number of barrels of oil produced in a single day. For example, country A might produce 5 million barrels of oil per day, which could be written as 5 million B/D; Usually there is an inverse relationship between the number of barrels produced per day and the price of oil.  

Barrels Per Day

The top currency in a currency pair is called the base currency, and the exchange rate of a currency pair is a measure of the base currency in the list price currency. Take the EURUSD currency pair (EURUSD) as an example, the euro is the benchmark currency. In forex trading, to go long on a European and American currency pair is to buy the base currency, the euro. 

Base Currency

It is the first currency in a currency pair, which is the currency based on exchange rate quotations, which measures how many units of the base currency can be exchanged for one unit of base currency. Taking USD/JPY as an example, the US dollar is the base currency, and if the exchange rate is 110, it indicates that 1 US dollar can be exchanged for 110 yen. 

A unit commonly used to measure interest rates or other financial instruments. One basis point is equal to one in ten thousandths, which is 0.01%. It is common to see rate hikes at meetings of central banks measured in BPS, such as a 10BPS hike. In addition, if the central bank raises interest rates by 0.25%, it can also be called a rate hike of 1 yard. 

Basis Point

Refers to the overall decline in prices, with a pessimistic outlook. It can be used to describe various markets including stocks, bonds, derivatives, foreign exchange and commodities. In a bear market, short positions dominate the market and continue to suppress commodity prices.  

Bear

A relay pattern in a downtrend. In a bear market with a more pronounced downward trend in prices, the price forms a small upward channel. When the price crosses the lower edge of the small upward channel, the selling pressure intensifies, causing the instrument to be break the key level triggering more stop losses and new short positions. The bear flag structure is therefore a continuation pattern in a downtrend. 

Bear Flag

A bear trap is a trading setup for those who are looking to short the market in a downtrend. This setup will usually break a key support level and be in a downtrend, and then reverse back to the support level and keep rising, thereby trapping the bears. Once the market rises above the breakout level, a number of stops get triggered and the market can rise rapidly. 

Bear Traps 

Refers to traders who hold short cryptocurrency positions with large amounts of capital, which can easily influence the movement of the crypto market. 

Bear whales in Cryptocurrency 

A bearish engulfing pattern is a technical chart pattern that signals lower prices to come. The pattern consists of an up (white or green) candlestick followed by a large down (black or red) candlestick that eclipses or "engulfs" the smaller up candle.

Bearish Engulfing Pattern

The Beige Book is a summary of economic conditions around the United States. It is published approximately every 6 to 8 weeks, about 2 weeks before the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meeting. This report is of value to Fed decision-makers because it provides a real-time record of economic changes. If the Beige Book reveals that economic activity is healthy, it is positive for the dollar. Conversely, if the report shows that the economy is not performing well, the Fed may be inclined to lower interest rates. 

Beige Book

It refers to the leading indicator of economic trends. The reason why some companies are worth paying attention to is mainly because it can be said that the company is a leader in whether the economy is working well, and if the company's profit performance is excellent, it often means that the current overall market environment is healthy. On the contrary, if the financial performance is a loss, then it is often implied that the economy may further decline. In general, companies that can be classified as leaders tend to be companies with large customer bases and excellent brand reputation, and these companies tend to have relatively high weights in some important indexes. 

Bellwether

Generally refers to the interest rate at which the central bank lends to commercial banks. The deposit and loan interest rates of commercial banks are often adjusted based on this interest rate. Therefore, the benchmark interest rate is an interest rate with a universal reference role in the financial market, and other interest rates in the market are often determined according to the level of the benchmark interest rate. 

Benchmark interest rate 

The legal tender of the island of Bahrain, the code is BHD. 

The bid price refers to the price at which the investor is willing to bid to buy, the sell price refers to the price at which the investor is willing to bid and sell, at a certain point in time, the gap between the bid price and the bid price is called the spread, when the optimism of the underlying asset rises, the buyer will often rush to buy the required asset, at this time, the bid price will rise steadily, because the buyer directly uses the sell price to complete the transaction and the seller begins to show a reluctance to sell and the sell price will rise; On the contrary, when pessimism spreads, sellers tend to rush to sell their assets, and at this time they will see the bid price fall steadily, because the seller directly uses the bid price to trade and the buyer begins to show the mentality of not losing money and lowering the bid price. 

Bid and Ask Prices

Refers to the simultaneous inflation and deflation of an economy, that is, the performance of different economic commodities is diametrically opposite. Due to the Cantillon effect of economic markets, price increases driven by monetary policy are often uneven. In a depressed economy, for example, raw materials tend to perform better, while leveraged assets such as real estate may experience reduce demand, leading to lower prices.  

Biflation

A fundamental index in purchasing power parity theory. Since McDonald's is consistent with Big Mac Hamburg on a global scale, Big Macs in different countries should theoretically have the same value, so whether the local price of the Big Mac reflects the relative value of the currency. For example, if mcDonald's Big Mac burger in the United States sells for $7, while The Australian McDonald's Big Mac sells for $10, there is no difference between the two Big Mac burgers, so theoretically, the exchange rate of the Australian dollar against the US dollar is 0.7.  

Big Mac index

A binary option is a financial contract where you make a wager on whether or not the price of an underlying asset will move in a specific direction within a specified period of time. For example, if you think the price of oil will go up during the next month, all you need to do is put down a small portion of cash and hope that it goes up. Otherwise, you lose the amount you've placed on the binary option. A binary option is different from regular investing because you're not putting up money for the underlying asset. But you still have some of your assets at risk if the price goes down.  

Binary Option

is a digital (crypto) currency that originated in a white paper proposed in January 2009 by a mysterious figure who is rumored to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitbi is not issued through any bank or government, and transactions are recorded through a decentralized ledger, which is extremely difficult to be corrugated. Bitcoin is currently the most valuable of all cryptocurrencies, with a market capitalization of about $880 billion. 

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin used to increase the number of transactions that can be processed. There are many similarities with Bitcoin, the key difference is the size of the block, Bitcoin Cash will be faster in terms of transaction speed, and the speed can also be improved. 

Bitcoin Cash

A block is a collection of transaction-related data and bundled it together for validation, and this part of the data structure is a block. Blocks are a fundamental component of the blockchain. 

Block

Refers to the reward that miners receive after solving relevant mathematical puzzles and creating new blocks through hash rates, which vary according to different cryptocurrencies. Take Bitcoin for example, which is mined at a definite but constantly decaying rate, producing a new block about every ten minutes. Each new block accompanied by a certain number of new bitcoins from scratch. Bitcoin is halved for every 210,000 blocks mined, with is roughly a four-year cycle. 

Block Reward

A type of stock that refers to the stocks of enterprises with long-term stable growth and large market value, usually traditional industrial stocks and financial stocks. Blue chips are characterised by high operating stability, tending to have higher dividend yields and predictable future cash flows. 

Blue Chip

One of the most commonly used technical indicators, typical mean reversion logic. The Bollinger Bands are composed of the midline, the upper rail and the lower rail, the midline is a simple moving average of 20 periods, and the upper and lower rails are two standard deviations away from the midline, relying on the mathematical laws of normal distribution. In general, the candlestick touching the upper Bollinger band is used as a sell signal, while touching the lower Bollinger band is a buy signal.  

Bolling Band

Government bond auctions are financed by governments by selling long- and short-term government bonds to investors. First, the central bank announces the total amount that needs to be borrowed. Brokers, institutions and individual investors will then submit their own quotes for the bonds. Just like buying a house, the highest price is the one who secures the bond. However, the special thing about bonds is that they are quoted at a yield, and the investor with the lowest yield can buy the bond. 

Bond Auction

Refers to the repayment period of the bond determined at the time of issuance, after the maturity of the bond, the issuer must repay the principal. For example,a 10-year Treasury bond is a bond issued by the U.S. government that repays the principal 10 years after the bond was issued. In the financial market, bonds with a maturity of less than 1 year are generally regarded as short-term bonds, bonds with a year of more than 1year and less than 10 years as medium-term bonds, and long-term bonds of more than 10 years. The annualized interest rates of bonds of different maturities issued by the same issuer will generally be different.  

Bond Repayment Period

Refers to the ratio of the income that can be obtained from a bond each year to the carrying price of the bond. Bond yields can be used to compare bonds of different face values and returns. At the same time, bond yields often represent the degree of confidence investors have in the market, and the higher the yield, the stronger the confidence. This is often reflected in national bonds and corporate bonds. 

Bond Yield

If the issuer of the bond is issued in order to raise funds, after the funds are raised, the corresponding interest will be paid at the agreed interest rate or amount at the agreed time. For bondholders, it is a fixed income investment that is also considered a creditor. Bonds are a direct debt relationship. 

Bonds

From an accounting point of view, it means that all sales revenue equals all costs, which means the company is neither profitable nor loss-making. Trading in the market means a losing order is offset by a profitable order, and the trader does not lose or earn. Breakeven is often used in valuation models, where companies price products through equilibrium points or traders develop trading strategies. 

Breakeven

A benchmark price commonly used in the international oil market to measure the level of oil prices, it is the most widely used crude oil price in the world. Most international oil prices use Brent crude as a reference. Brent crude oil is compared to the price of oil refined in Europe, and its quality is slightly lower than that of WTI crude oil. Brent crude oil can not be directly delivered physically, often through options, CFDs and other ways to trade.

Brent Crude

Refers to the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, so that the United Kingdom is no longer bound by EU law and free trade, and can control immigration rights. There has always been strong European skepticism in the UK, especially as the wave of immigration intensified intra-party tensions and led to a Brexit referendum in2016. Finally, the United Kingdom officially left  the EU Single Market and customs union on 31 December 2020.  

Brexit

Refers to the deposits of enterprises outside the banking system, the deposit of residents and other deposits, including all forms of money that can form purchasing power. TheM2 money supply is often used to measure the strength of monetary policy and future inflationary pressures, and many countries use the M2 money supply as a regulatory target. M2 = M1 + Commercial Bank Time Deposits.  

Broad Measure of Money Supply

The legal tender of the Bahamas, code BSD. 

Refers to a market with overall rising prices, a term with an optimistic outlook. It can be used to describe various markets including stocks, bonds, derivatives, foreign exchange and commodities. In a bull market, long positions dominate the market and continue to push up  prices.  

Bull

A bull trap is a trap for those looking to trade the long side of the market. This will usually break a resistance level and be in an uptrend, and then reverse back to the resistance level and keep falling, thereby trapping the bulls. Once the market falls back below the breakout level, a number of stops get triggered and the market can fall rapidly. 

Bull Trap

Refers to traders who hold long positions in cryptocurrencies with large capital, which can easily influence the movement of the crypto market. 

Bull whales in Cryptocurrency 

A bullish flag pattern is when you see a trend go up and then come back down again. It shows that the trend is going to continue. This is a bullish pattern and is very similar to when prices of a stock go up and then come back down. This signal is often used to identify an asset that could be in the middle of a bull run.  

Bullish Flag Pattern 

Buyer pressure is when you see a market at a point where the prices simply keep rising due to buying demand. The most obvious form of buyer pressure is when a market is heavily short sold and the buyers step in due to incredible value of the instrument. This forces prices up so dramatically it can be called a short squeeze. 

Buyer pressure 

Canada's legal tender is one of the eight major currencies. 

A common chart used in financial market analysis, a chart consists of hundreds of candlesticks. A candle line consists of four prices, namely High, Low, Close and Open. 

Candlestick Chart

Generally, refers to the spread transaction on foreign exchange, by borrowing money in a country with a low interest rate, replacing it with the currency of a higher interest rate country, and then lending to earning the spread, such as the previous purchase of AUDJPY, which is a typical carry transaction.  The risks of such a carry trade is mainly due to possible interest rates and exchange rate changes, and secondly, the cost of tax burdens in the countries concerned.  

Carry Trade

Cash flow includes not only cash in hand, but also bank deposits, cash equivalents, and highly liquid assets. Cash flow is an important part of the operation of modern companies, refers to the general term for the cash inflow, outflow and stock generated by the enterprise through economic activities in a certain period of time (generally quarterly, semi-annual or annual). Tends to appear in the cash flow statement, similar in structure to the income statement, but expressed differently in terms of dimensions. Cash flow can reflect the company's recent liquidity pressures.  

Cash Flow

A country's central bank is an important financial center and an important institution used by the state to regulate and intervene in the national economy. Regulate market liquidity through monetary policy, such as adjusting interest rates, to achieve economic stimulus or cooling. In addition, the credit policy and supervision of commercial banks are also controlled by the central bank. 

Central Bank

The legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, issued by the Swiss National Bank, is one of the eight major currencies. 

There are three categories of traders' positions held in the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which lists the holdings of various U.S. futures market participants: commercial positions, non-commercial positions (large investors), and non-reported positions (small speculators), which can be used as an indicator to analyze market sentiment. 

Commitments of Traders Report

In the financial market, it refers to homogenization, can be traded, and is widely used in industrial and agricultural production and consumer commodities, including crude oil, iron, aluminum, coal, soybeans, pork, etc. Commodities can be roughly divided into three categories, namely energy, basic raw materials and agricultural and sideline products. It is important to note that physical commodity movement is not involved when trading commodity CFDs. 

Commodity

A common technical indicator that measures the deviation of a commodity's price from its average price. Its value often fluctuates between +100 and -100, if applied to more consolidated commodities, when the CCI value is higher than 100, it means that it is overbought, which means that there may be short-term opportunities, on the contrary, when the CCI value is lower than -100, it means that it is oversold, which means that there may be long opportunities in the short term. 

Commodity Channel Index

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is an independent body created by the United States government in 1974 to regulate the derivatives market in the United States, including futures, swaps, and certain types of options, to protect market participants from fraud, market manipulation, and improper operations related to commodity and financial futures, and to ensure the openness, competitiveness and financial reliability of the futures and options markets.  

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

A U.S. financial regulatory term that refers to an individual or institution that charges or makes a profit for the provision of advisory advice. The advisory services provided include the execution of trading authorizations for the client's account and the provision of valuable advice based on the client's specific commodity account, commodity trading activity, or other similar information. Commodity trading advisors must be registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and must be members of the National Futures Association if managing clients' accounts or advising clients. 

Commodity Trading Advisor

When auditing the company's finances, requiring the company to disclose all relevant information completely is an important part of the audit evaluation. 

Completeness

The CPI contains a fixed basket of goods and services, reflecting all the prices related to the lives of the country's residents, such as rent, oil prices and medicines to name a few. The prices of these goods and services are combined to the so-called consumer prices, which can also be said to be the amount of money needed by an ordinary person to live. In this case we are looking at price changes from the buyer's point of view. 

Consumer Price Index

Refers to the crisis of the economy and situation of a country or economy that spreads to other countries and becomes the trigger of the global financial crisis. With the development of economic globalization, the ties between countries have become closer and closer, and often when a crisis occurs in one country, it will be transmitted to other countries like dominoes. For example, the origin of the entire European debt crisis is the Greek debt crisis. 

Contagious effect

It is composed of two triangles, the enlarging triangle and the convergence triangle, and the price volatility first expands and then decreases. The two triangles enclose the shape of a diamond. This pattern represents trading sentiment, first it expands and then contracts. When the candlestick breaks through the diamond pattern, there will be a price trend. 

Continuation Diamond

Refers to a pattern in which the price is suspended in a trend market, and the price continues to run along the original trend after the end of the relay pattern. There are many kinds of relay patterns, such as triangle convergence patterns, flag shapes, wedge shapes, box shapes, etc. Trend-driven signals are often driven by a breakout of the relay pattern. 

Continuation Pattern

The number of U.S. jobless claims is part of the employment performance report, which refers to the number of people who have continued to apply for unemployment benefits in the past week, reflecting the unemployment situation in the United States during the week. In principle, Americans can claim unemployment benefits for26 consecutive weeks, and the situation will vary from state to state. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. has relaxed the renewal cycle to 39 weeks. It is generally released every Wednesday.  

Continued Claims

CFDs are derivative products that enable you to make high-risk investments in financial markets such as stocks, forex, indices, and commodities without having to own the underlying asset. CFDs make it easy for traders to trade in the long-short direction, and the source of the trader's profit depends on the difference in the price of the asset between the opening of the contract and the end of the contract.  

Contract For Difference

After excluding the price index of food and energy, since the price of food and energy tends to be more volatile, the core PCE tends to be more stable than the PCE price index, and the relationship between the two indicators is the same as that between the core CPI and the CPI. 

Core PCE Price Index

The other party in a financial transaction, the two parties in the transaction are each other's counterparties. For example, if you are a buyer, then the counterparty is the seller. 

Counterparty

Refers to the latter in a currency pair. For example, the Aussie dollar against the US Dollar (AUDUSD), the counterpart currency of the AUD is the USD. 

Counterparty Currency

Risks involving national politics, climatic conditions, international relations, import and export trade, etc., are collectively referred to as geopolitical risks. In international investment or foreign exchange trading, geopolitical risk is a link that cannot be ignored. 

Country Risk

It is a kind of institution that specializes in collecting and researching personal credit information and synthesizing this information into a well-organised credit report. Banks and lending institutions will use these credit reports to assess the credit limit of borrowers, approve loans and other items. At present, the three major credit reporting agencies in the United States are Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.  

Credit Bureau

A credit rating or score is assigned to any entity that wants to borrow money. This can be an individual, a corporation, a state or provincial authority, or a sovereign government. Credit ratings and other scoring codes are also used by different credit rating agencies. The lower the credit rating, the higher the financing cost that the borrower needs to bear, and conversely, the higher the credit rating, the lower the financing cost. Credit ratings are expressed in letters like AAA, BB+, or D.  

Credit Rating

Companies that specialize in providing reports on debt issuers (e.g. banks, corporations, governments) are able to meet their obligations to pay interest on bonds and repay principal when they mature after bond issuance. At present, the three major international credit rating agencies are Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s and Fitch Ratings. 

Credit Rating Agency

Among the eight major currencies, all combinations except straight currencies are cross-traded currency pairs. Compared to straight currency pairs, crosses are slightly less liquid and spreads are relatively higher. For example, the Eurasian currency pair, the Australian and New Zealand currency pairs and so on. 

Cross Currency Pair

In the international market, almost all currencies have an exchange rate against the US dollar. The exchange rate of one non-dollar currency against another non-dollar currency often needs to be arbitraged through these two exchange rates against the united States dollar, and the exchange rate calculated by this set is the cross exchange rate.  

Cross Rate

A medium of exchange that uses cryptographic principles to ensure transaction security and controls the creation of trading units. Cryptocurrency anti-counterfeiting is a new type of token that uses digital currencies and virtual currencies to use cryptography and digital hashing and binding for smart contracts. Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency in 2009, after which the term cryptocurrency refers to such designs. 

Cryptocurrency

A string of characters consisting of numbers and letters, used to access the transmission of cryptocurrency transactions and payments, often needs to be accompanied by a corresponding private password. Bitcoin strings have 2 6-35 characters and usually start with 1 or 3; Ethereum, on the other hand, has 40 characters, starting with 0x.  

Cryptocurrency address 

It generally refers to excessive interference by national governments in exchange rates in order to manipulate the value of local currencies against other countries' currencies, rather than allowing currencies to fluctuate freely according to market dynamics. The premise of currency manipulation is that countries must have mechanisms for opening their markets and floating exchange rates. Exchange rate adjustment is a conventional monetary policy, but excessive interference and the derivation of unequal trade are exchange rate manipulation. 

Currency Manipulator

Currencies in forex trading appear in pairs, so forex trading is also known as currency pair trading. A currency pair is a foreign exchange rate consisting of two currencies, such as the euro against the US DOLLAR, which is the European and American currency pairs. The former is the base currency and the latter is the list currency. 

Currency Pair

A foreign exchange monetary policy, the national currency and the formulation of the country's currency exchange rate to fix, so as to achieve the purpose of stabilizing import and export trade. Since the US dollar is the settlement currency of most international commodities, it enters the market and is pegged to the currencies of other countries. 

Currency Peg

A country's central bank uses tools to promote growth/limit growth in  the economy by changing the liquidity of money in the market to regulate inflation, employment, economic activity, etc. There are two forms of monetary policy, one is called easing, that is, to put liquidity into the market; The other is tightening, withdrawing liquidity from the market. In general, loose monetary policy will increase the amount of local currency in the market, resulting in the depreciation of the local currency; Vice versa. Compared with fiscal policy, there are not many monetary policy tools, mainly relying on interest rate adjustment and asset purchases, and the impact on the market is more direct. 

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