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Торговый глоссарий

Глоссарий «торговля» относится к типу торговой стратегии, в которой трейдеры используют заранее определенный набор терминов, определений или концепций для принятия обоснованных решений. Он часто включает в себя отраслевой жаргон, финансовые показатели и аналитические инструменты для эффективной навигации на рынках.

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Polish Zloty (PLN)

The zloty, ISO code PLN, is the currency of Poland, one of the largest economies in central Europe and a member of the European Union that has kept its own money rather than adopt the euro. It floats freely, and its value reflects Poland’s robust economy, its central bank’s interest-rate decisions, and the region’s exposure to events in the rest of Europe, including, at times, the war on its doorstep in Ukraine.

It is among the more actively traded emerging-European currencies.

Example: When Poland’s central bank raises interest rates to fight inflation while the economy grows solidly, the zloty may strengthen against the euro, as higher yields can attract investors. But it is also sensitive to regional risk: an escalation of the conflict in neighbouring Ukraine can send the zloty lower as investors may shy away from currencies close to the trouble, although the impact depends on broader market conditions and Poland’s economic fundamentals.

Political Risk

Political risk is the danger that political events, rather than economic ones, will move markets or negatively affect an investment. Elections, coups, wars, sanctions, sudden changes in law or tax, the nationalisation of an industry, all of it falls under this heading, and it can strike anywhere, though it looms largest in unstable or authoritarian countries.

Because it is hard to predict and harder to hedge, political risk is one of the trickiest things investors have to price.

Example: A foreign fund holding bonds and stocks in an emerging market watches nervously as a populist candidate whose policies investors view as hostile to business surges in the polls ahead of an election. Fearing tax hikes, capital controls, or worse, investors may begin pulling their money out, and the currency and stock market may slide well before any policy actually changes, illustrating how expectations about a potential new government’s policies can influence markets before those policies are implemented.

Portfolio

A compilation of investments made by a trader.

Portfolio manager

An investment professional responsible for managing a portfolio on behalf of clients.

Position

A position is simply the exposure you hold in a market, the sum of what you have bought or sold and not yet closed. Go long and you hold a long position that generally benefits if prices rise; go short and you hold a short position that generally benefits if they fall.

The word covers everything from a single share to a vast institutional holding, and the size of a position determines how much money rides on each move. Managing positions, how big, how many, when to add or cut, is the very heart of trading.

Example: A trader who buys 500 shares of a company has opened a long position; as long as she holds it, she has a position in that stock, gaining or losing with every tick. When she finally sells the 500 shares, she closes the position and is said to be flat, with no remaining exposure from those shares and her profit or loss on the trade realised based on the execution price and any applicable costs.

Position Sizing

Position sizing is the decision of how much to put on a single trade, and it may be the most important choice a trader makes. It focuses on the size of a position rather than the selection or timing of a trade

The usual approach ties size to risk, working backward from how much you are willing to lose on the trade to how many shares or contracts that allows.

Example: A trader with a 50,000 dollar account decides she will risk no more than one percent, 500 dollars, on any trade. Planning to buy a stock at 100 with a stop at 95, she is risking 5 a share, so she buys exactly 100 shares, targeting a loss of 500 dollars if the stop executes at 95. The entry and stop set the planned risk per share; position sizing turns that into the number of shares she actually buys. Gaps, slippage, and execution costs can cause the actual loss to exceed the planned amount.

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