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  2. Percentage in point - Wikipedia

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    The pip value is $1. Having 10,000 euros bought against the dollar at 1.1055 and sold at 1.1065, gives a profit of 10 pips or $10. If the U.S. dollar is the base currency (the first of the pair), such as with the USD/EUR pair, the pip value involves the exchange rate. Pip Value=(size of a Pip)/(Exchange Rate)*(Lot Size) [6]

  3. Bid–ask spread - Wikipedia

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    The simplest type of bid-ask spread is the quoted spread. This spread is taken directly from quotes, that is, posted prices. Using quotes, this spread is the difference between the lowest asking price (the lowest price at which someone will sell) and the highest bid price (the highest price at which someone will buy).

  4. Scalping (trading) - Wikipedia

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    Scalping is the shortest time frame in trading and it exploits small changes in currency prices. [4] Scalpers attempt to act like traditional market makers or specialists. To make the spread means to buy at the Bid price and sell at the Ask price, in order to gain the bid/ask difference.

  5. Tick size - Wikipedia

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    That means that a price is quoted as, for instance, 99-30+, meaning 99 and 61/64 percent (or 30.5/32 percent) of the face value. As an example, "par the buck plus" means 100% plus 1/64 of 1% or 100.015625% of face value. Most European and Asian bond and futures prices are quoted in decimals so the "tick" size is 1/100 of 1%. [3]

  6. Currency pair - Wikipedia

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    A currency pair is the quotation of the relative value of a currency unit against the unit of another currency in the foreign exchange market.The currency that is used as the reference is called the counter currency, quote currency, or currency [1] and the currency that is quoted in relation is called the base currency or transaction currency.

  7. Candlestick chart - Wikipedia

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    A candlestick chart (also called Japanese candlestick chart or K-line) is a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency. While similar in appearance to a bar chart, each candlestick represents four important pieces of information for that day: open and close in the thick body, and high and ...

  8. Exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    The contraction of spreads (the difference between the bid and ask rates) arguably necessitated finer pricing and gave the banks the ability to try to win transactions on multibank trading platforms where all banks may otherwise have been quoting the same price. A number of other banks have since followed this system. [citation needed]

  9. Butterfly (options) - Wikipedia

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    Long 1 call with a strike price of (X − a) Short 2 calls with a strike price of X; Long 1 call with a strike price of (X + a) where X = the spot price (i.e. current market price of underlying) and a > 0. Using put–call parity a long butterfly can also be created as follows: Long 1 put with a strike price of (X + a) Short 2 puts with a ...