Trading Basics
Market Hours
The opening hours for a market. Markets can sometimes be traded after hours.
Other Trading Basics
Cable
Another name for the GBP – USD exchange.
Around half a trillion dollars is traded between the two currencies everyday, making it the third most popular currency pair to trade in behind EUR – USD and USD – JPY.
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A summarised financial result of all funds deposited in, and withdrawn from the customer’s account, and of all closed positions in that account.
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