Trading Basics
Breakdown
Occurs when a price ‘breaks down’ below a support area.
Other Trading Basics
Averaging Down
Once an initial long trade is place this is the practice of opening additional positions at a lower price with the view of bringing the average opening price of the position down.
Assets
Anything that is owned that is expected to generate a return to the owned.
Opposite to a liability.
CFD
Contract for difference.
An OTC financial derivative where the counterparties agree to exchange the change in a price.
No underlying assets are exchanged.
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