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- CPI (consumer price index)A monthly measure of how the prices of a typical shopping basket of goods and services change over time. It is the most widely quoted gauge of inflation, and its release often moves currencies and bond prices.
- Copy tradingA service that automatically replicates the trades of another trader in your own account.
- Circuit breakerA rule that temporarily pauses trading in a stock or an entire market after the price falls by a set percentage in a short time. The pause is meant to give participants time to take in news and calm sharp panic selling.
- ChargebackA reversal of a card payment that the cardholder disputes with their issuing bank. Brokers may have rules about deposits that are reversed, and card issuers set their own conditions and time limits.
- CFTC and NFAIn the United States, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is the government regulator of futures and forex markets. The National Futures Association is the industry self-regulatory body that registers firms and enf…
- CFD (contract for difference)A derivative that pays the difference between the opening and closing price of an asset, without owning it.
- Central bankThe public institution that manages a country's or currency area's money supply and sets its main interest rate, such as the Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank. Its decisions on rates strongly influence curren…
- Carry tradeA strategy of borrowing in a currency with low interest rates to hold a currency with higher rates, aiming to earn the difference. It can lose heavily if exchange rates move the wrong way or many traders exit at once.
- Candlestick chartA chart where each bar, or candle, shows the open, high, low and close for one time period. The thick body shows the open-to-close range and the thin lines, called wicks, show the extremes.
- Call optionAn option giving the buyer the right, not the obligation, to buy an asset at the strike price before expiry. Its value tends to rise when the asset's price rises.
- Bond yieldThe annual return an investor earns on a bond at its current market price, shown as a percentage. When a bond's price falls its yield rises, and the other way round.
- BondA loan to a government or company that pays regular interest and returns the original amount on a set date. Its price rises and falls with interest rates and with the issuer's perceived ability to repay.