Forex Dictionary ( Q - U )

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• Quote flow
  a sequence of numerical data describing the price value of an instrument at a certain time period
  
  
• Range
  the distance between levels of support and levels of resistance
  
  
• RBA
  stands for Reserve Bank of Australia. The bank is responsible for Australia's monetary policy, works to maintain a strong financial system and issues the nation's banknotes.
  
  
• RBC (RosBusinessConsulting)
  is a Russian media group operating in the Internet, mass media, and on TV. It embraces the RosBusinessConsulting information agency, a news website, the Quote.rbc.ru business analytics portal, and the RBC daily weekly analytical newspaper.
  
  
• RBI
  is an investment holding company, one of the biggest players in the housing and construction markets. The RBI headquarters are located in Saint Petersburg. The company operates in the segments of residential and commercial construction.
  
  
• Real GDP
  shows production output and incomes in real terms.
  
  
• Resistance level
  highest channel’s borderline
  
  
• Reuters
  is one of the world’s largest news agencies founded in the middle of the 20th century.
  
  
• Rising trend
  occurs, when every following value of the wave curve is higher than the previous rate value. The lows of the waves are connected with a straight line – the trend line
  
  
• Risk management
  means using a strict set of rules in trading in order to limit losses
  
  
• Rollover
  is closure of an expired position at current market price and simultaneous opening of the exact same position; the method of carrying the position overnight
  
  
• RTS (Russian Trading System)
  conducts trades on the stock and derivative markets. Open 10:00 to 23:50 MSK (GMT+4). In December 2011, RTS merged with MICEX into MICEX-RTS. In 2012 the united stock exchange was renamed as OAO Moscow Stock Exchange (MSE).
  
  
• RusRating
  is an independent national rating agency accredited by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. It has been operating since 2001. The agency focuses on banks’ credit ratings.
  
  
• RWE (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk)
  is a German company engaged in selling natural gas. It is second rated after E.ON.
  
  
• S&P
  is one of the largest rating agencies which deal with analytical investigations of financial market. The company to one of the world’s most powerful rating agencies. S&P is also known as the creator and editor of the American stock index S&P500; and the Australian S&P200;.
  
  
• S&P 500
  is stock index of Standard & Poor’s rating agency which is comprised of 500 top publicly traded companies of the USA which securities can be found on the largest U.S. stock markets. It is a market-value-weighted index and one of the main indicators of the American economic climate.
  
  
• Scalping
  is the method of short-term trading that suggests a large number of positions opened during a trading day fixing small amounts of profit or loss
  
  
• Sentix Investor Confidence Sentix
  measures credibility of the Eurozone economy in the eyes of investors. The indicator is calculated on the basis of a survey held among investors and analysts. If the indicator rises, a foreign currency is converted into a national one when buying securities or non-financial assets, which pushes the national currency rate up. Readings of the indicator exceeding forecast bode well for the currency.
  
  
• Server log file
  file, created by the server, which records all requests and orders received from the client to a dealer, as well as the processing result, with 1 second accuracy
  
  
• Shld
  stands for the American international trading network founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alva Roebuck in the late nineteenth century. In early 2005, the company, which earlier was part of the industrial rating (Dow Jones Industrial Average), merged with the company Kmart and became known as Sears Holdings Corporation.
  
  
• Short position
  is a situation where a trader sells a financial instrument
  
  
• Slippage
  is the situation on the currency market in which a broker closes an opened position at a less profitable price than stated in the order. It happens amid price spikes when the level of position closure is broken too fast
  
  
• Societe Generale
  is one of France’s largest financial conglomerates. Its headquarters are located in Paris. Societe Generale was founded in 1864; it specializes in asset management, investment banking, financial services etc.
  
  
• Spike
  a comparatively abrupt movement of a price or value level upwards or downwards (usually exceeding spread). Spikes have a peculiarity of recurrence during a certain period of time, from several minutes to several hours. According to InstaForex Public Offer Agreement, all positions opened and closed by non-market quotations are to be cancelled, which guarantees the safeguard of funds against spikes
  
  
• Spread
  the difference in pips between the Bid and the Ask quote