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Glosario de Trading

El glosario de trading se refiere a un tipo de estrategia de trading en la que los gestores utilizan un conjunto predefinido de términos, definiciones o conceptos para tomar decisiones informadas. A menudo implica jerga específica de la industria, métricas financieras y herramientas analíticas para navegar por los mercados de manera efectiva.

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Fading

Fading is a trading technique that involves taking a position against the prevailing move – selling into strength or buying into weakness – on the basis that the move has gone too far and is about to reverse. Pretty much, it’s a gamble against momentum, which takes balls because momentum can persist a lot longer than rationality advises it to.

Faders are frequently looking for overextended moves, euphoric attitude, or price hitting a significant resistance or support level as their cue to get in the opposite direction. Great in range markets and poor in strong trends, fading the move over and over, is a definite way to lose money.

Example: A stock gaps up 12% on the open on earnings that were good but not great. A fader sees the move, thinks the market has over-reacted, and goes short near the open. By lunchtime, the initial enthusiasm has evaporated, the stock retraces half the gap, and the fader covers their short for a handsome profit.

The same trade into a real breakthrough would have been a disaster; that’s why reading the context is as crucial as the approach itself.

Failure swing

A technical indicator in which the price attempts to break a previous high or low but fails to do so.

Fair value

The estimated value of an asset based on its market price, financial statements and other relevant factors.

Fakeout

A fakeout is when price confidently breaks a significant level, such as a support line, resistance zone, or chart pattern boundary, only to reverse abruptly and move back the other way. It looks like a breakout and behaves like a breakout. And then it isn’t. 

Fakeouts are the most unpleasant thing about trade. They are designed, whether knowingly or unknowingly, to pick up the stops and orders parked at obvious levels. The big players know where retail stop losses tend to lie, and pricing will regularly probe these levels before reversing, stopping out breakout traders just before the main surge sets off in the other direction.

Example: EUR/USD has been stopped by resistance at 1.0950 for the past two weeks. It breaks through on Tuesday, reaching 1.0970 and creating buy orders from traders who took the break as confirmation. The pair has reversed inside the hour, trading back through 1.0950 and heading towards 1.0900.

The breakout buyers are losing now, their stops have been run, and the market moved the other way as soon as it had enough orders to feed on.

Falkland Islands Pound (FKP)

The Falkland Islands Pound is the currency of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. Its pound is at par with the pound sterling, and the two currencies are interchangeable on the islands, although Falkland Islands notes are not accepted in the UK. The economy is limited, based mostly on fishing licenses and sheep herding, and tourism is increasingly important.

The islands gained world attention after the 1982 conflict between the UK and Argentina, and sovereignty is a disputed issue between the two countries. In terms of world currencies, the FKP is something of a novelty; it has no global exchange and is largely a local currency for a population of around 3,500.

Example: A visitor in Stanley, the islands’ capital, can use British pounds or local Falkland Islands notes interchangeably to pay for typical things. But they are not going to be carrying those Falkland notes home as anything more than a memento, for outside the islands, they are of no real worth, and no bank or currency exchange anywhere will accept them.

Falling Knife

A falling knife is an asset that is dropping in price very rapidly and very hard, and the phrase is almost always used as a warning. The whole saying is “don’t try to catch a falling knife,” which means don’t rush to buy something just because it’s dropped a lot.

The idea is that just because something has dropped hard doesn’t mean it’s cheap. It could be cheap for a very good reason, and what looks like a bargain can keep dropping much further than anyone expected. After a big decline, it’s natural to want to buy, and sometimes, it’s the proper thing to do, but timing has to be more than simply noticing that the price is lower than it was.

Example: A pharmaceutical company’s stock drops 40% in a single session after a drug study fails. It feels cheap compared to last week, and a trader buys on the hope of a bounce. Over the next month, the stock falls another 25% as institutions dump shares and analysts cut their targets. The trader learned the hard way that a lower price does not equal a good entry.

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