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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
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