A flash crash is a price fall that is very fast, very deep and mostly undone soon after. This guide settles three things with our own data: how to measure …
What is M2, and why do traders keep quoting it? M2 is the Federal Reserve’s broad count of US money: cash, bank deposits and retail money market funds. This guide …
Going long means buying to open a position, so you gain if the price rises and lose if it falls. The harder question is how often a long actually ended …
Paper hands is trading slang for selling at the first sign of trouble, usually in a sharp fall. This article settles what that habit did on the S&P 500 since …
German money before euro cash arrived was the Deutsche Mark, born in the West German reform of 20 June 1948. This guide settles three things. First, what the mark was …
What are imports? They are the goods and services a country buys from sellers abroad. For the US, our TradingView series starts at $0.59bn a month in January 1950. The …
Gross national product (GNP) is the value of goods and services made with labor and property that US residents supply, wherever in the world the work takes place. GDP counts …
The Honduras lempira has lost about half its value against the US dollar since 1997. It lost it slowly, in small steps. This guide settles three things. First, how far …
San Salvador money is the US dollar, the legal currency of El Salvador since 1 January 2001. This guide settles three questions. First, what happened to the colón, which the …
Macau patacas are the money of Macao, and their value follows the Hong Kong dollar at about 1.03. This guide settles three things. First, how tight that link is, measured …
Sri Lanka rupees lost 98.0% of their dollar value between January 1973 and 3 November 2026. One US dollar bought 6.7114 rupees at the start of that window and 332.583 …
Futures contract vs forward comes down to where the deal lives and who carries the risk. A future trades on an exchange with standard terms and a clearing organization behind …
Short term trading means opening and closing a position within minutes, hours or a few weeks. This guide settles one measurable question: how much of a typical price move does …
Buy on the rumor sell on the news is a market saying with a simple claim: prices rise while people expect good news, then fall once it arrives. This article …
BTFD is trading slang for “buy the dip”: buy a market right after it falls, on the bet that the fall will not last. This article settles how that bet …
Bullish or bearish comes down to one question: do you expect prices to rise or fall? The words sound simple, but the market versions hide a trap. The popular 20% …
A dragonfly doji is a single candle with almost no body, almost no upper wick and a long lower wick. Textbooks read it as sellers pushing price down and buyers …
The descending triangle pattern is taught as a bearish setup: a flat bottom, falling highs, then a break lower. This guide settles whether that direction call survives when a fixed …
The ascending triangle pattern is taught as a bullish setup: a flat top, rising lows, then a break upward. This guide settles how often that really happens, using counted cases …
The phrase higher risk higher reward sounds like a law of markets, but it describes what investors ask for, not what they receive. So we put numbers on it. Across …
A symmetric distribution looks the same on both sides of its center, so its mean and median land on one point and its skew is zero. This guide settles one …
OPEC is the group of oil exporters whose output decisions sit behind many sharp moves on an oil chart. This article settles what it is and what its headlines did …
New York cocoa is the cocoa futures contract on ICE Futures U.S., priced in US dollars per tonne, and its chart changed character after 2023. It rose from 2,572 in …
How to invest in oil comes down to one question: what do you end up holding? You cannot buy the oil price itself. Instead, you hold a futures contract, a …
FAANG stocks are Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google, five large US companies grouped under one acronym. Two of those names have changed since: the Facebook company is now Meta, …
The Big Short is a 2010 book by Michael Lewis, and a 2015 film based on it, about a few investors who bet against US subprime mortgage bonds before the …
Yields are what a bond pays relative to its price, so price and yield move opposite ways. This guide settles what the number means, why it moves against price, what …
Weekend Wall Street is IG’s own weekend market on its Dow product, quoted while the US stock market is shut. This article settles what that price is, what it is …
What does OTC mean? It stands for over the counter. At a pharmacy, it means medicine you can buy without a prescription, and the FDA’s guide to over-the-counter medicine covers …
The Fed dot plot is a chart of where each Federal Reserve policymaker thinks the federal funds rate should sit at the end of each year. This guide settles three …
Nikkei futures are exchange-traded contracts on the Nikkei 225 stock index. We charted the two that trade on the Osaka Exchange and on CME. This guide settles three things: what …
The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index is a monthly US survey of how households feel about their money and the economy. This guide settles what the survey asks, how …
The MOVE index is the bond market’s version of the VIX: one number for how far options traders expect US Treasury yields to swing over the next month. This guide …
USOIL is the ticker charting platforms use for a West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price, but on TradingView it is a reference series, not a contract you can buy. …
Indices are calculated numbers that track a basket of share prices, and you cannot buy one directly. This guide settles three questions: what an index is, how its weighting rule …
John Paulson is the New York-born investor who founded Paulson & Co. and bet against subprime mortgage debt before the 2008 crisis. This guide settles how that credit default swap …
Pre market trading is the buying and selling that happens before the regular US stock session opens at 09:30 New York time. This guide settles two questions. Who can actually …
Confluence trading means taking a trade only when several signals agree on the same bar. This guide settles one question: does that agreement make a signal better, or does it …
EURAUD is the exchange rate between the euro and the Australian dollar, the number of Australian dollars that one euro buys. This guide settles four things: what moves the pair, …
The BGN currency is the Bulgarian lev, and since 1 January 2026 it is no longer Bulgaria’s money: the euro took over at a fixed 1.95583 leva per euro. This …
Wyckoff accumulation is a sideways range where, in Richard Wyckoff’s reading, large buyers absorb supply before prices rise. Its best-known event is the spring: a dip under the floor of …
The Egyptian pound (EGP) has lost 92.3% of its value against the US dollar since October 2001. Back then, one dollar bought 4.24 pounds; on 23 October 2026 it bought …
Is the pound stronger than the dollar? If you mean what one unit buys, yes. On 23 October 2026 one British pound bought about 1.338 US dollars, and in our …
Black Wednesday was 16 September 1992, the day the UK took the pound out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after a failed defence. The Bank of England set …
An FOMC meeting is where the US Federal Reserve sets its policy interest rate, eight times a year. This guide settles three things: what the meeting is, when the 2026 …
A fiat currency is money that a government issues and declares legal tender, with no promise to swap it for gold or any other commodity. The dollar, euro, pound, yen …
CFDs, or contracts for difference, let you trade the price of an index, a metal or a currency pair without owning it. You and a provider agree to settle the …
