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Back Office : Settlement and related processes.
Balance : Amount of money in an account.
Balance of Payments : A systematic record of the economic transactions during a giv...
Balance of Trade : The value of exports less imports. Invisibles are normally exclu...
BAM : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bank Line : Line of credit granted by a bank to a customer, also known as a "line".
Bank Notes : Bank notes are paper issued by the central or issuing bank and are leg...
Bank of Canada : Abbreviated BOC. The central bank of Canada.
Bank of England : Abbreviated BOE. The central bank of the United Kingdom. It is a ...
Bank of France : Abbreviated BOF. The central bank of France.
Bank of Italy : Abbreviated BOI. The central bank of Italy.
Bank of Japan : Abbreviated BOJ. The Japanese central bank. Although its Policy Boa...
Bank Rate : The rate at which a central bank is prepared to lend money to its domes...
Bank Reserve Settlement : Economical indicator, A two-week period that ends every o...
Banking Day : See Trading Day and Value Date.
Bar chart : A type of chart that consists of four significant points: the high and ...
Barrier Option : A family of path dependent options whose pay-off pattern and survi...
Barrier options : (trigger options, cutoff options, cutout options, stop options, d...
Base Currency : The currency in which the operating results of the bank or institut...
Basis : The difference between the cash price and futures price.
Basis Point : One per cent of one per cent.
BBD : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Barbados, called Dollars.
BDT : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bangladesh, called Taka.
Bear : An investor who believes that prices are going to fall.
Bear Market : A prolonged period of generally falling prices.
Bear Put Spread : A spread designed to exploit falling exchange rates by purchasing...
Bear Spread : See Diagonal Spread.
Bearish : Words used to describe investor attitude. A bearish investor believesthat...
Bearish doji star : A star indicates a reversal and a doji indicates indecision. Th...
Bearish engulfing line : This structure appears when a black, real body totally cov...
Bearish Harami : A two day pattern that has a small body day completely contained w...
Bearish Harami cross : See Bearish Harami doji.
Bearish Harami doji : A two day pattern similar to the Harami. The difference is th...
Bearish tasuki : A bearish two-day candlestick combination. It consists of a long b...
Bearish tsutsumi : Engulfing pattern. A bearish two-day candlestick combination. It...
BGN : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bulgaria, called Leva.
BHD : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bahrain, called Dinars.
Bid : The price at which a buyer has offered to purchase the currency or instrument...
Bid Price : The price at which an investor can place an order to buy a currency pair;...
Bid Rate : See Bid Price.
Bid Spread : The point difference between the bid and offer (ask) price.
Bid-Ask Spread : The difference between the bid and offer price.
BIF : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Burundi, called Francs.
Big Figure : Refers normally to the first three digits of an exchange rate that dea...
Bilateral grid : An exchange rate system that links all the central rates of the EM...
Black closing bozu : A bearish candlestick formation that consists of a long black ...
Black marubozu : Shaven head. A bearish candlestick formation that consists of a lo...
Black opening bozu : A bearish candlestick formation that consists of a long black ...
Black-Scholes fair value model : The original option pricing model, which holds tha...
Black-Scholes Model : An option pricing formula initially derived by Fisher Black a...
Blank closing bozu : A bullish candlestick formation that consists of a long blank ...
Blank marubozu : Shaven head. A bullish candlestick formation that consists of a lo...
Blank opening bozu : A bullish candlestick formation that consists of a long blank ...
BMD : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bermuda, called Dollars.
BND : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Brunei Darussalam, called Dollars.
BOB : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bolivia, called Bolivianos.
BOC : See Bank of Canada.
BOE : See Bank of England.
BOF : See Bank of France.
BOI : See Bank of Italy.
BOJ : See Bank of Japan.
Bollinger Band Width : A technical indicator that shows a stock´s volatility ...
Bollinger bands : A quantitative method that combines a moving average with the ins...
Bonds : Bonds are tradable instruments (debt securities) which are issued by a borr...
Book : In a professional trading environment, a ´book´ is the summary o...
Book method : Point-and-figure chart´s original name.
Box spread : A compound option strategy that consists of four options with a common...
Break Even Point : The price of a financial instrument at which the option buyer re...
Break Out : In the options market, undoing a conversion or a reversal to restore th...
Breakaway gap : A price gap that occurs in the beginning of a new trend, many times...
Breakout of a spread triple bottom : A bearish point-and-figure chart formation tha...
Breakout of a spread triple top : A bullish point-and-figure chart formation that s...
Breakout of a triple bottom : A bearish point-and-figure chart formation that sugge...
Breakout of a triple top : A bullish point-and-figure chart formation that suggests...
Bretton Woods Accord of 1944 : An agreement that established fixed foreign exchange...
Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 : An agreement that established fixed foreign excha...
BRL : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Brazil, called Brazil Real.
Broken Dates or Period : Deals that are undertaken for value dates that are not sta...
Broker : An agent, who executes orders to buy and sell currencies and related instr...
Broker-Dealer : See Dealer.
Brokerage : Commission charged by a broker.
BSD : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bahamas, called Dollars.
BTN : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Bhutan, called Ngultrum.
BUBA : See Bundesbank.
Bull : An investor who believes that prices are going to rise.
Bull Call Spread : An option position composed of both long and short options of th...
Bull Market : A prolonged period of generally rising prices.
bull or bear : See Diagonal.
Bull Put Spread : An option position composed of both long and short options of the...
Bull Spread : An option position composed of both long and short options of the sam...
Bullion : A term for gold bars, not coin.
Bullish : Word used to describe an investor´s attitude. Bullish refers to an ...
Bullish doji star : A "star" indicates a reversal and a doji indicates indecision. ...
Bullish engulfing line : This structure appears when a white, real body totally cov...
Bullish Harami : A two day pattern that has a small body day completely contained w...
Bullish Harami cross : A two day pattern similar to the Harami. The difference is t...
Bullish tasuki : A bullish two-day candlestick combination. It consists of a long b...
Bullish tsutsumi : Engulfing bar. A bullish two-day candlestick combination. It con...
Bundesbank : Abbreviated BUBA. Central Bank of Germany.
Business firms establishment survey : See Business firms survey.
Business firms survey : Survey of the payroll, workweek, hourly earnings, and total...
Business Inventories : Economical indicator, The dollar amount of inventories held ...
Butterfly Spread : (1) A futures butterfly spread is a spread trade in which multip...
Buy Limit Order : An order to execute a transaction at a specified price (the limit...
Buy On Margin : The process of buying a currency pair where a client pays cash for ...
Buyer-Taker : The purchaser of an option, whether a CALL or PUT option. The buyer m...
Buying Rate : Rate at which the market and a market maker in particular is willing ...
Buying The Spread : To buy the nearby contract and simultaneously sell the deferred...
BWP : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Botswana, called Pulas.
BYR : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Belarus, called Rubles.
BZD : ISO 4217 currency code, Currency used in Belize, called Dollars.


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