Trading Basics
FOMC
The Federal Open Market Committee is the branch of the Federal Reserve bank in charge of monetary policy decisions.
Other Trading Basics
Bottom Up Analysis
A form of fundamental analysis which starts with analysis of the individual parts.
Bottom up analysis of an index would involve the analysis of each company in that index.
Cyclical Shares
Equities that follow the economic cycle. For example banking shares typically rise and fall with a cycle.
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.
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