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Now that you know what Margin Call and Free Margin are, it’s time to find out what Stop Out means. This is the point at which the broker starts closing the least-profitable open positions, in order to...

Apart from Take Profit, an equally important pre-calculated price level used by traders today is called Stop Loss. As the name suggests, this is a type of pending order that allows the trader to set a...

A spread is the difference between the ask price and the bid price. In other words, it is the cost of trading. For example, if the Euro to US dollar is trading with an ask price of 1.14010 and a bid p...

Now that we know what Buy Stop Limit is, it’s only natural to talk about its selling counterpart. The pending order called “Sell Stop Limit” combines Sell Stop and Sell Limit orders, and is currently ...

We’ve gone through both uptrend and downtrend, so now let’s look at an example of when the market isn’t going up or down. When the market appears to be ‘trending’ sideways, we call this a range. In fa...

A point in price, or pip for short, is the measure of change in a currency pair in the forex market. The acronym can also stand for a “percentage in point” and “price interest point”. It is a standard...