Macro
Family IX · 25 entries
This family covers the macroeconomic concepts that move currency, bond and commodity markets: the data releases, central-bank actions and structural features that traders track to anticipate price changes. The terms answer the question of what a given macro event or indicator is, how it is measured, and why it matters for exchange rates and interest rates. A newcomer should start with interest rate, because it is the anchor for monetary policy, inflation, bond yields and currency valuation, and most other terms in this list connect back to it.
The most common mistake is treating a single data release or central-bank statement as a standalone trading signal, rather than reading it in the context of the prevailing interest-rate and inflation cycle.
- Basis point
- Bond yield
- Central bank
- Commodity currency
- Consumer price index
- Currency devaluation
- Currency intervention
- Economic calendar
- Exchange rate
- Floating exchange rate
- Fomc meeting
- Gross domestic product
- Inflation rate
- Interest rate
- Interest rate decision
- Monetary policy
- Non farm payrolls
- Pegged currency
- Purchasing power parity
- Quantitative easing
- Risk on risk off
- Rollover interest rate
- Safe haven currency
- Sofr rate
- Yield curve