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Forex glossary - F

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False Breakout - Short-term movement of a rate through some conditional border, and then return and movement to the opposite party.

FCM - abbreviation for Futures Commission Merchant.

FEDAI - abbreviation for Foreign Exchange Dealers Association of India)

Federal Reserve (Fed) - The USA Central Bank.

Fibonacci Sequence - The sequence of numbers that are widely used in a technical analysis for definition of price levels (support and resistance) in the market.

Fiscal Policy - The monetary and financial-budgetary politics of certain country.

Fixed Exchange Rate - it is the government-established rate for one or more currencies.

Floating Exchange Rate -

FOMC - abbreviation for Federal Open Market Committee.

Foreign Exchange - buying or selling of one currency against selling or buying of another.

Foreign Exchange (Forex market, FX) - The simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another.

Forex - abbreviation for foreign exchange.

Forex trader - participant of Forex market.

FT - abbreviation for Floor Trader.

Fundamental Analysis - Analysis of economic and political information of the certain country and all over the world with the objective of determining future price movements in a market.

Fundamentals - The macro economic factors influenced to the value of a currency. Among them inflation, growth, trade balance, government deficit, and interest rates.

FX - abbreviation for Foreign Exchange.

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The following terms will appear in the glossary soon:

• Face Value
• Fast Market
• Fed Fund Rate
• Fed Funds
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Federal Funds Rate
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
• Federal National Mortgage Association
• Federal Reserve Board
• Feed Ratio
• Felony
• Fictitious Trading
• Fiduciary Duty
• Fill or Kill Order
• Final Decision
• Final Injunction
• Final Order
• Financial Action Type
• Financial Analysis Auditing Compliance Tracking System (FACTS)
• Financial and Position Reporting Action Type
• Financial Instrument
• First Notice Day
• Fix or Fixing
• Fixed Income Security
• Flat/Square
• Float
• Floor
• Floor Broker (FB)
• Floor Committee
• Floor Recordkeeping Action Type
• Floor Trader (FT)
• FOB
• Forced Liquidation
• Foreign currency
• Foreign Futures or Foreign Options Secured Amount
• Foreign Position
• Foreign Terminal
• Forex Deal
• Forward
• Forward Contract
• Forward Cover Taking
• Forward Deal
• Forward Market
• Forward Points
• Forward Purchase or Sale
• Forward Rate
• Forwardation
• Free Reserves
• Front Office
• Frontrunning
• Full Carrying Charge, Full Carry
• Full Membership (CBOT)
• Fully Disclosed Account
• Fund of Funds
• Futures Commission Merchant (FCM)
• Futures Contract
• Futures Exchange
• Futures Exchange-Traded Contracts
• Futures Industry Association (FIA)
• Futures Price