Sébastien Haller

A candlestick chart is a type of chart used to analyse a market’s price in trading. Unlike bar charts, candlestick charts show the market’s high, low, open and closing price within each period.

A cash market is a marketplace where securities are immediately paid for and delivered at the point of sale. For example, a stock exchange is classed as a cash market – because investors receive their shares as soon as they have paid for them. Cash markets are also called spot markets, because the transactions get settled on the spot. They differ from futures markets, where buyers pay for the right to receive goods at a specific future date. Cash market transactions may take place on exchanges like stock markets or via over-the-counter (OTC) methods. Regulated exchanges offer institutional and structured protection against counterparty risks. OTC markets, on the other hand, allow the parties involved to customise their contracts. What is the difference between cash and futures markets? A cash market is where financial instruments get traded and where, for example, the delivery of stock/shares occurs. The total amount of the transaction value must be paid in cash when buying the shares. In contrast, a futures market is where only futures contracts are bought and sold on agreed dates in the future and at predefined prices. Trading in futures doesn’t involve owning shares, and no delivery occurs as the contract expires on the expiration date. Traders can trade on margin with futures, and they don’t have to pay cash at the point of sale. With futures contracts, settlement takes place on a contract’s expiration date. Futures contracts don’t have dividend pay-outs, and they’re used more for hedging, speculation or arbitrage purposes, unlike buying shares for investment reasons

The word buck is a slang term for one US dollar. The word’s use traces back to 1748, forty-four years before the first US dollar became minted.

The GBP/USD (Great British Pound/U.S. Dollar) pair. Cable earned its nickname because the rate was originally transmitted to the US via a transatlantic cable beginning in the mid 1800s when the GBP was the currency of international trade.

Call options are financial contracts that give you the right, but not the obligation, to buy a market at a specified price within a specific time. The buyer of a call option can profit when the underlying market rises in price.

‘Buy the dips’ is a phrase used in trading, referring to opening a trade on a market as soon as it experiences a short-term price fall. ‘The dip’ is quite literally a dip shown on a market’s chart when its price falls after a bullish period.

An instruction given to a dealer to buy or sell at the best rate that can be obtained at a specific time.

A term for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX 200), which is an index of the top 200 companies by market capitalization listed on the Australian stock exchange.

An instruction given to a dealer to buy or sell at a specific price or better.

The ask price, ask, or offer price is the price a seller will accept for a security.. An ask quote often stipulates the amount of the asset available at the stated price. The ask price is the opposite of the bid price, which is what a buyer will pay for a security – the ask is always higher than the bid.