Trading glossary

Ukuran trade mengacu pada ukuran dari posisi yang ingin kamu buka, BUKAN jumlah dana yang ingin kamu gunakan. Hal ini tergantung pada instrumen.

Istilah "volume trading" mengacu pada jumlah lot standar yang ingin Anda tradingkan. 1,00 mengacu pada 1 lot standar atau 100.000 unit base currency, jadi 0,10 mengacu pada 1 lot mini atau 10.000 unit base currency. 0,01 mengacu pada 1 lot mikro atau 1.000 unit base currency.

Bitcoin adalah mata uang digital yang dibuat pada tahun 2009 terutama berdasarkan makalah yang diterbitkan sendiri oleh Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin memungkinkan terjadinya pembayaran cepat (dan pembayaran mikro) dengan biaya yang sangat rendah, dan menghindari keterlibatan pemerintah pusat dan emiten.

Seorang broker Forex adalah perantara antara Anda dan meja antar bank, yakni jaringan bank yang trading satu sama lain. Biasanya, broker Forex akan menawarkan harga dari bank, berfungsi sebagai penyedia likuiditas dari bank. SimpleFX menggunakan beberapa bank untuk menentukan harga dan kami menawarkan quote harga terbaik dengan eksekusi yang cepat.

Margin Call adalah peringatan bagi trader ketika ekuitas akun turun 50% di bawah Level Margin. Ini berarti, akun hanya memiliki margin yang disediakan saja. Sehingga harus didanai lagi untuk mencegah akun dari Stop Out atau penutupan paksa. Platform Trading akan menutup posisi trading pada level Stop Out, yang diatur pada 30% dari Level Margin.

Margin adalah jumlah persentase dari total ukuran trading yang diminta broker sebagai deposit jaminan agar trader dapat membuka suatu posisi. Jumlah ini bukan fee atau biaya transaksi. Tapi hanya sebagai ekuitas akun Anda yang ada akun Anda sebagai deposit dari sebuah trade. Persyaratan margin dihitung dengan mengambil persentase dari ukuran trading nosional dan ditentukan broker di depan dalam persyaratan trading.

Jika Anda membeli pasangan mata uang, berarti Anda ada membuka posisi 'long/beli' dan jika menjual berarti 'short/jual'. Misalnya, jika Anda membeli 1 lot EUR/USD, ini berarti bahwa Anda membuka posisi long/beli untuk 100.000 unit EUR. Dan jika Anda menjual 10 lot AUD/CAD, ini berarti bahwa Anda membuka posisi short/jual untuk 1.000.000 unit USD.

Slippage terjadi ketika terjadi kesenjangan pasar atas harga atau karena likuiditas yang tersedia pada harga yang diberikan telah habis. Kesenjangan pasar biasanya terjadi di pasar yang bergerak cepat. Yakni ketika harga bisa melompat beberapa pips tanpa ada trading harga di antaranya. Demikian pula, setiap harga memiliki sejumlah likuiditas yang tersedia. Contoh jika harga ada di 50 dan tersedia 1 juta di 50. Maka order senilai 3 juta akan slippage, karena 3 juta lebih banyak dari 1 juta yang tersedia di posisi 50.

Spot market adalah pasar yang memperdagangkan harga saat dari suatu instrumen keuangan.

Spread adalah selisih antara harga penawaran dan permintaan. Harga penawaran adalah kurs di mana Anda dapat menjual pasangan mata uang, harga permintaan adalah kurs di mana Anda dapat membeli pasangan mata uang. Bersama kami, Anda dapat trading berbagai macam instrumen dengan spread yang fleksibel. Ini akan memberikan Anda tingkat transparansi harga yang lebih besar di trading Anda.

Stop loss adalah perintah untuk menutup posisi yang sebelumnya terbuka di harga yang kurang menguntungkan bagi klien dibandingkan harga pada saat pemasangan order. Stop loss adalah titik batas yang Anda tentukan untuk order Anda. Setelah titik batas ini tercapai, order Anda akan ditutup. Fitur ini berguna jika Anda ingin meminimalkan kerugian saat pasar tidak berpihak dengan Anda. Posisi stop loss selalu ada di bawah harga JUAL saat membeli atau di atas harga BELI saat menjual.

Take profit adalah perintah menutup posisi terbuka di harga yang lebih menguntungkan bagi klien dibandingkan harga pada saat pembuatan pesanan. Ketika take profit tercapai pesanan akan ditutup

Trailing stop adalah tipe order stop loss. Trailing stop adalah level persentase yang ada di bawah harga pasar (untuk posisi long/beli), atau di atas harga pasar (untuk posisi short/jual).

What is arbitrage in trading? It happens when you can take advantage of price difference - buy an asset at one place and immediately sell it in another market with profit.

What does ask price refer to in trading? It’s the price a seller asks from buyers in a market. When the asking price matches the bid price (offered by potential purchasers) usually a transaction happens.

What is an asset in trading? It’s a resource that can be possessed and exchanged between parties. A bond, currency, equity, commodity, or cryptocurrency - are some examples of assets. In practice traders exchange assets themselves (spot market) or contracts tied to assets (ie. futures market).

Traders can teach computer programs to make trade orders for them. The practice is called algorithmic trading. The orders can be executed by simple rules, ie. decision tree, or by deep learning algorithms that are able to teach themselves.

What is a base rate. Central banks, such as Fed, Bank of England or European Central bank, set the rate they charge commercial banks for loans. Higher base interest rates slows inflation, rises income from bank deposits, but also rise the cost of borrowing, and negatively influences the stock market.

Bull and bear are symbols of uptrend and downtrend. Bears are skeptical, they expect the prices of an asset (cryptocurrency or stock) to go down, or even collapse. They usually try to short the companies or cryptos at the right time. On the other hand, bulls are optimistic about the future price. They want to buy low and sell in future.

What does it mean that one currency is pegged to another? Usually currencies used in different countries can be freely exchanged between buyer and sellers. It is less common that they are pegged, tied to the price of another currency, usually at the 1:1 ratio. Cryptos can be pegged aswell. The most popular are stablecoins tied to US dollar, such as Tether, USD Coin, or Binance Coin. Pegging a currency is tricky, as the central bank (or stablecoin issuer) needs to control the price.

What is CPI? It’s one of the most popular tool to measure the inflation. It tracks the change of the prices customers pay for goods and services. It’s given in percentages. If it is too high central banks need to act and raise interest rates. The move can slo the economy down, but will help to curb inflation.

What is fundamental analysis? It’s one of the most popular approach to assessing the value of an asset. For companies it takes into account their cashflow, reserves, financial and market results, as well as future potential. Traders who can correctly measure the fundamentals of an asset can see market opportunities as the current market price may be lower or higher than the intrinsic value of a stock, commodity, or cryptocurrency.

You might have heard of futures. These are derivatives. Buyers and sellers agree to a transaction at a specific price at a specific time in the future. Futures are a good way to hedge current positions. They are also often more volatile than the spot market, as futures prices sometimes can drop to negative.

What is GDP? Gross domestic product is the sum of the value of the goods and services produced in a country (or region). Usually economists measure annual GDP to check if the economy is growing or shrinking, and to compare the economic power of a territory.

Some trades, positions or investmets are done to make profit, other to reduce ones exposure to risk. Companies, countries, and individuals can hedge making a move opposite to their main position. You may hedge by shorting futures of an asset you own (Bitcoin, Tesla stocks), or by investing in an asset which price usually moves inversely.

What is HFT? The use of computers introduced algorithmic trading and high frequency trading. Automatic algorithms can perform trades faster than humans, and find a better price, buy and sell faster than a trader acting manually. HFT strategies can lead to “flash crashes”, when algorithms make the same mistake at the same time.

What does IPO mean? The shortest definition is the stock exchange debut - the first sale of the equity in the public market. IPO turns a private owned company into a public company as anyone can buy a stake in it. Companies raise new investment capital through IPO, the owners decide to sell part of their firm. Before an IPO investment banks and owners asses the value of the company and propose a price per share. However, on the day a company goes public big price movements are very common.

If you borrow money, you are supposed to pay interest to the lender. The price of the credit is usually expressed by annual percentage rate (APR). A second meaning of interest is the stake a stockholder has in a company, also expressed as a percentage.

What is intrinsic value? In finance the term is used to describe the true value of an asset, which usually is different from the market price. Companies, commodities, or currencies are undervalued or overvalued as it is difficult to assess the intrinsic value. Traders try to do it using fundamental analysis.

What is a limit order? Traders can open orders at a more attractive price than the current one. If you want to buy an asset, you can place a limit order at a lower price. If you are selling at a higher price. The limit order will be fulfille only when the market reaches your desired level.

What is leverage in finance? It’s a method of making more profit without investing more money. Traders can open a position using margin, which can be just a fraction of the value of an order. The margin trading provider lends the missing funds to their clients. Leverage allows you to make much more money if you are on the right side of the market, but if the market goes against you, you can quickly loose the margin.

When trading different assets you will quickly realize, that in some markets transactions happen very often, an don the others you’d need to wait several minutes for a price to change. This is the concept of liquidity. Liquid assets can be bought and sold any time, while less liquid assets (ie. expensive yachts) need a specific buyer.

When the funds on a trading account fall below the level needet to keep a position open, the owner receives a margin call warning. Unless more money is added to an account, the position will be automatically closed. In the past brokers would literally call their clients to inform about the situation, that’s where the term derives from.

When placing a stop order you want to execute a trade when the price is less attractive for you than the current one. Why would you want to do it? To stop loss. If you are holding an asset, you may want to sell if the price goes down before it crashes for good.

In forex trading, FIFO (First In, First Out) is a rule requiring that you exit your first (or oldest) open trade if you have multiple trades of the same pair and size open. This can impact hedging strategies where you aim to open opposite positions (BUY and SELL) on the same instrument for risk management. If FIFO is enabled on your platform, opening a new position in the opposite direction will close the oldest position of the same size, preventing simultaneous BUY and SELL positions. To maintain both positions,, you need to disable the FIFO option, available in the Symbols panel next to the trade calculator.

Rollover is an automated process engineered to transfer your position to the next available contract on futures-based CFDs, such as BUND or TNOTE. It's free of charge and enables you to hold your position open past its expiration date without the need to close and reopen it at a new rate manually. More details, examples and upcoming rollover dates can be found here.