Trading Basics
Currency Pairs
The exchange of two currencies.
Other Trading Basics
Balance of Trade
Also BoT. This is the difference between trade into or out of a country.
Experts and imports. It can be negative or positive and is used by traders in fundamental analysis.
Balance
A summarised financial result of all funds deposited in, and withdrawn from the customer’s account, and of all closed positions in that account.
Book Building
When a new share is issued book building is the process institutions go through to gauge demand and therefore price.
This goes on before the share is available to trade on the exchange.
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