Field Guide to Trading Terms

Other terms


Family XII · 34 entries

This family collects terms that do not sit inside a single analytical or order-type category: market indices such as the dxy, us30 and nas100; macroeconomic releases like cpi and nfp; structural concepts including break of structure, fair value gap, breaker block, mitigation block, inducement and stop hunt; and operational items such as vps service, standard account, funded account and counterparty risk.

The terms answer a practical question: what is the instrument, event or structure being referenced, and how does it affect an order or a position? A newcomer should read index first, because it defines the underlying exposure that many of the other entries, from dxy to us30, depend on.

The most common mistake is treating a term from this family as a standalone signal or recommendation, when each entry only defines a concept and its context.