Glossary
Name | Definition | Url |
Ask | Ask price, also called offer price, offer, asking price, or simply ask, is the price a seller states they will accept. | |
Asset | Fixed assets, capital investment | |
Bearish | Investors expect downward price movement | |
Bid | A bid price is the highest price that a buyer (i.e., bidder) is willing to pay for a good | |
Bullish | Investors expect upward price movement in the stock market | |
CFD ( contract for difference) | The contract between two parties, typically described as "buyer" and "seller", stipulating that the seller will pay to the buyer the difference between the current value of an asset and its value at contract time (if the difference is negative, then the buyer pays instead to the seller). | |
Closing price | The last level at which asset was traded on any given day. | |
Commission | The commission is the charge levied by an investment broker for making trades on a trader’s behalf. | |
Currency | Money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. | |
Derivative | Contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity. | |
Dividend | Payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits | |
Dow Jones Index | Reflects the performance of 30 of the most significant stocks on the American stock exchanges. | |
ETF | The investment fund traded on stock exchanges, much like stocks. | |
Exchange | The marketplace in which securities, commodities, derivatives, and other financial instruments are traded. | |
Expiry date | The point when a trading position automatically closes is known as the expiry date | |
Forex | The market in which currencies are traded | |
Futures contract | The contract between two parties where both parties agree to buy and sell a particular asset of a specific quantity and at a predetermined price, at a specified date in the future. | |
Index | Statistical composite that measures changes in the economy or in financial markets often expressed in percentage changes from a base year or from the previous month. | |
Inflation | General increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money | |
Investors | The person that allocates capital with the expectation of a future financial return | |
Leverage | The ratio of a company's loan capital (debt) to the value of its ordinary shares | |
Mappings | Symbol name which can be different for different datafeeds and brokers | |
Margin | The sum deposited with a broker to cover the risk of loss on a transaction or account | |
Market data | Is price and trade-related data for a financial instrument reported by a trading venue such as a stock exchange. | |
Option | Contract which gives the buyer (the owner or holder of the option) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price on a specified date, depending on the form of the option. | |
Risk | The possibility that shareholders will lose money on a trade | |
Rollover | Means keeping a position open beyond its expiry. | |
Stock | The stock (also capital stock) of a corporation is constituted of the equity stock of its owners. | |
Trading Strategy | The fixed plan that is designed to achieve a profitable return by going long or short in markets. | |
ISIN | The International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) is a code that uniquely identifies a specific securities issue. | |
Workspace | The current display of all tabs, charts, and further content you have arranged in a specific template |
Name | Definition | url |
ActionBar | The function which located on the right-hand side of the chart and is equipped with various functions to improve trading management. | |
Alerts | Allow User to set criteria and be notified that criteria have been met immediately | |
Analyzer Escort | Advanced scanner column that searches for conditions/signals that were activated via the Setup Builder in hundreds of instruments simultaneously. | |
Backtest | The key feature for analyzing the performance of a strategy on a historical basis. | |
Signal Builder | Allows you to create complex conditions/signals for scans with the scanner and Analyzer Escort. | |
Correlation Matrix | Compare the performance of individual instruments and even whole instrument lists in a real-time timeframe. | |
Part Trades | Means trading setup which includes more than one stop or target | |
Price Style | Bars style on a chart | |
Quick Trader | Allows the user to quickly enter orders and strategies directly on the chart. | |
Bid/Ask Spread | The difference between the bid and offer price, and the most widely used measure of liquidity. | |
Record and Replay Escort | Record market data from a currently ongoing operation and replay it later when necessary. | |
Instrument Escort | A feature that helps you to manage instruments and instrument lists. | |
Fundamental Screener | Use to scan for around 7000 US stocks according to the fundamental and technical criteria | |
Scripted | Self-programmed Indicator, condition, etc | |
DOM (Depth of the market) | Provides insights of current market depth provides by your data-feed provider/broker if level 2 data is enabled. It allows you to place orders in the market. | |
Dynamic Scanner | Automatically collects all available signals that are active in one of your opened watch lists and charts as well as Analyzer Escort columns. |
Name | Definition | url |
Order | Purchase or sell a security through the broker | |
Long | OrderBuy security through the broker | |
Short | OrderSell security through the broker | |
Market | Order a market order is a buy or sell order to be executed immediately at current market prices. | |
Limit | Order a limit order is an order to buy a security at no more than a specific price or to sell a security at no less than a specific price | |
Stop order | Buy or Sell becomes active only after a specified price level has been reached | |
Stop Limit order | Characterized by automatic submission of the limit order (market) to the market (order book) as far as the predefined stop limit price level is reached. | |
OCO (One cancels Other) | Once any order of a group is executed, the other orders belonging to this group will be deleted. | |
IfDone Order | Once any order of a group is executed, other orders belonging to this group will be submitted. | |
ORO (One reduces Other) | Once any order of a group is executed, the size of the second order in this group will be reduced by the order volume of the first order. | |
Direct orders | Direct orders are submitted to the broker. Once a direct order is placed on the market it will be located on the exchange. | |
Synthetic orders | Synthetic orders are not forwarded to the exchange and remain locally placed on your computer. | |
Dynamic orders | Dynamic order is a synthetic order that is only submitted when a „suspicion“ arises. | |
GTC (Good til Cancel ) | "This order remains active until it is either rescinded by the investor or the trade is executed |