Trading Basics

Index

The aggregate performance of a group of individual equities. Examples include the FTSE100, DJIA and Dax indices.

When a trader goes long a financial instrument they will buy it.

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

A security’s last price in a trading period.

Learn the skills needed to trade the markets on our Trading for Beginners course.