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Glossaire du trading

Le commerce par glossaire fait référence à un type de stratégie commerciale dans laquelle les traders utilisent un ensemble prédéfini de termes, de définitions ou de concepts pour prendre des décisions éclairées. Cela implique souvent un jargon spécifique au secteur, des mesures financières et des outils analytiques pour naviguer efficacement sur les marchés.

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Risk Sentiment

Risk sentiment is the overall mood of the market toward risk, the prevailing attitude that determines whether investors are feeling brave or fearful at a given moment. It is the master switch behind the risk-on and risk-off swings, and traders track it obsessively, because when sentiment shifts, it drags whole baskets of assets with it regardless of their individual merits.

Understanding market sentiment can provide useful context for interpreting price movements

Example: A currency trader begins her day not by studying one pair in isolation but by gauging risk sentiment across the whole market: are stock futures up, are safe havens being sold, is volatility low? If the sentiment reads positive, she leans toward higher-yielding, riskier currencies; if it has soured overnight, she expects the yen and dollar to firm and the commodity currencies to struggle, adjusting her whole approach to fit the mood rather than fighting the tide that risk sentiment sets for the entire session.

Risk-Reward Ratio

The risk-reward ratio weighs how much you are risking on a trade against how much you stand to make, and it is the same yardstick as the reward-to-risk ratio covered elsewhere on the sheet, just with the two words flipped.

You measure the distance from your entry to your stop-loss against the distance from your entry to your target; a risk-reward of one to three means risking one to make three.

Example: A trader sizes up a setup where her stop sits 50 points below her entry and her target sits 150 points above, a risk-reward ratio of one to three. She likes those odds, because even if she wins only half her trades, the winners are three times the losers, although actual results may vary due to trading costs and market conditions. A setup offering one to one, risking as much as it might make, she skips, understanding that a favourable risk-reward ratio may help a trader achieve profitability but does not guarantee it, even while being wrong a good deal of the time.

Riskless Principal

A riskless principal trade is one where a broker fills a customer’s order by immediately making an offsetting trade in the market, so it technically acts as principal but aims to minimise market risk. The broker buys from the market and sells to the client, or vice versa, at essentially the same moment and price, pocketing a small markup or commission without typically holding a position for a prolonged period that could expose it to market movements.

The two transactions are typically executed in close succession

Example: A client asks a broker to buy 10,000 shares, and the broker, acting as riskless principal, buys exactly 10,000 shares in the market and simultaneously sells them on to the client at the same price plus a small markup. Because the broker offsets the transaction in the market, its market exposure may be limited, although execution timing and price movements can still create risk. It still technically stood as the principal in the client’s trade rather than acting purely as an agent routing the order onward.

RMB

The Chinese yuan, also known as renminbi.

Rollover

A rollover happens when the maturity date of a financial instrument has been extended.

Rollover Fee

A rollover fee is the cost, or occasionally the credit, of holding a leveraged position overnight, and it is a fact of life in forex and CFD trading. In currencies it stems from the interest-rate gap between the two currencies in a pair: hold a position past the daily cutoff and it is rolled to the next value date, with a small amount debited or credited depending on which way that interest differential runs.

Over time these fees add up.

Example: A trader holding a long position in a currency pair overnight pays a rollover fee if the currency she bought carries a lower interest rate than the one she sold, although the actual charge depends on the broker’s rates and applicable adjustments. Hold the position for weeks and those nightly charges may reduce her profit or increase her losses; but flip the trade the other way, buying the higher-yielding currency, and the rollover may result in a credit instead, depending on the applicable rates and trading costs.

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