FTSE 250

Trading Basics

FTSE 250

An index of the medium-sized shares listed on the LSE’s main market. These are the 250 largest shares outside the top 100, so for shares with capitalizations ranked 101 to 350.

Other Trading Basics

Analysts

Those that conduct analysis on markets, with the view of providing insights to market participants.

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Call

An option that gives the purchaser the right, but not the obligation, to buy a security at a certain price.

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Carry Trade

A forex trading strategy of borrowing funds in a low-interest rate currency and buying assets in higher yielding currency.

For years this was selling Yen to buy Dollars.

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