Trading Basics
Cash Call
When your broker asks you to deposit more cash into your brokerage account to cover margin requirements.
Other Trading Basics
Cut and Reverse
When a position is fully reversed and an opposing position taken in a single trade.
Black Box Trading
Also referred to as automatic or algorithmic trading.
The trader does not need to see the system in operation, in effect its a black box.
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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