Finance Compass
Financial Glossary
Plain-English definitions for 234 finance and investing terms — from monetary policy and options Greeks to Bitcoin on-chain metrics and chart patterns. No jargon used to define jargon.
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Markets & Macro
33 terms- Basis Points
- Bear Market
- Bretton Woods
- Bull Market
- Compound Interest
- Correction
- CPI
- De-dollarization
- Eurodollar
- Federal Funds Rate
- Federal Reserve
- Fiscal Policy
- FOMC
- GDP
- Inflation
- Inverted Yield Curve
- Liquidity
- Market Breadth
- Monetary Debasement
- Monetary Metal
- Monetary Policy
- PCE
- Petrodollar
- Quantitative Easing
- Quantitative Tightening
- Recession
- Stagflation
- Store of Value
- Velocity of Money
- VIX
- Volatility
- Yen Carry Trade
- Yield Curve
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Equities & ETFs
21 terms👓
Trading Concepts
42 terms- Accumulation Phase
- Analysis Paralysis
- Arbitrage
- Bear Trap
- Bid-Ask Spread
- Breakdown
- Breakout
- Bull Trap
- Buy and Hold
- Buying Climax
- Composite Operator
- Consolidation
- Day Trading
- Dead-Cat Bounce
- Distribution Phase
- Dollar Cost Averaging
- FOMO
- Gap Down
- Gap Up
- Leverage
- Liquidate
- Long Position
- Margin
- Margin Call
- Markdown Phase
- Markup Phase
- Position Sizing
- Resistance
- Risk-Reward Ratio
- Scalping
- Secondary Test
- Selling Climax
- Setup
- Short Selling
- Sign of Strength
- Sign of Weakness
- Spring (Wyckoff)
- Stop Loss
- Support
- Swing Trading
- Upthrust (Wyckoff)
- Wyckoff Method
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Chart Patterns
12 terms📊
Chart Indicators
42 terms- Advance/Decline Line
- Anchored VWAP
- Arms Index
- Average True Range
- Bollinger Bands
- Break of Structure
- Change of Character
- Commodity Channel Index
- Confluence
- Crossover Signal Line
- Divergence
- Elliott Wave
- EMA
- EMA Ribbon
- Equal Highs and Lows
- Fair Value Gap (FVG)
- Fibonacci Levels
- Gap Fill
- Heikin-Ashi
- Ichimoku Cloud
- Line Chart
- Liquidity Zones (Buy-side / Sell-side)
- MACD
- Market Structure
- McClellan Oscillator
- Momentum Wave (WaveTrend)
- Moving Average
- OHLC
- On-Balance Volume
- Order Block
- RSI
- SMA
- Standard Deviation Bands
- Stochastic Oscillator
- Support and Resistance Levels
- Trend Exhaustion
- Trendline
- Volatility Trail (SuperTrend)
- Volume
- Volume Profile
- VWAP
- ZigZag
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Options
29 terms- Assignment
- At the Money
- Call Option
- Cash-Secured Put
- Covered Call
- Delta
- Exercise
- Expiration Date
- Gamma
- Gamma Squeeze
- Historical Volatility
- Implied Volatility
- In the Money
- Intrinsic Value
- Iron Condor
- IV Percentile
- IV Rank
- Option
- Option Premium
- Out of the Money
- PFOF
- Premium
- Put Option
- Rho
- Strike Price
- Theta
- Time Value
- Vega
- Vertical Spread
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Futures & Commodities
24 terms- Allocated Storage
- Backwardation
- Basis
- Bullion
- COMEX
- Contango
- COT Report
- Delivery Squeeze
- East-West Arbitrage
- Exchange for Physical (EFP)
- Futures Contract
- Gold/Silver Ratio
- Metals Lease Rate
- Numismatic Coin
- Open Interest
- Paper Market (Precious Metals)
- Paper-to-Physical Ratio
- Premium Over Spot
- Rehypothecation
- Roll Cost
- Shanghai Gold Exchange
- Spot Price
- Troy Ounce
- Unallocated Storage
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Forex
11 terms₿
Bitcoin & Crypto
20 termsAll definitions are for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing on Finance Compass constitutes financial, investment, or trading advice. Always conduct your own research and consult a qualified professional before making financial decisions.