A win rate is a ratio of your trading win to your trading losses. The higher is the ration, the more wins you have. Win rate can also be used as a trading tool that defines how many traders have gone out of a trade with profits rather than losses. Works the best together with reward-risk ratio.

A deal slip is an accurate record of all of the conducted forex trades in a certain span of time. Different jurisdictions and regulations ask for the deals slips for different amounts of time. Although the term goes mainly for forex trading, it can also be used in other segment of the market like stocks trading, bonds trading and others.

It goes like this – the situation in the market influences every trade that is put down for a certain direction. And that is quite common that the situation in the market is changing rapidly. That is where one has to adapt to the new situation and look for the new trading scenario that is going to be completely different from the previous variants of the trades.

Trading scenario can’t be developed beforehand and has to be made up and changed on the spot.

Liquidity is a term that describes the speed with which the asset can be sold or bought with the current price in a market without its price being affected by the selling-buying process. It also refers to the speed with which the market itself allows the assets to be bought and sold without the change in price.

Volatility is a special measure that describes a degree of variation of trading price for a certain asset in a certain period of time that is defined by the standard deviation and logarithmic returns. Volatility can be measured by these standard deviations just as well as by the difference between returns from the same asset.

Sometimes swings of the prices in the different direction are also called volatility.

Spread is the space between buy and sell. It is the margin of profit for a any exchange company online or in your exchange arround the corner. 

Example for spread: 

Eur/usd 

Buy is 1.1516

rate: 1.1514

Sell is 1.1512

Your buying or selling spread is 2 pips

A flat dollar strands for a fixed dollar amount, usually when peaking of fees or commissions paid for certain services. Contracts and trades that fix flat dollar amounts rather than fees which are percentage-based remove the size of transaction from the fee equation. That is the reason why flat dollar fees may offer brokers and traders advantages when transaction sizes change.

We measure dollar ration against a certain currencies basket. But what is a currency basket? It is a list of the major currencies that shape the behavior of the currency that is measured against it. a basket usually plays a role of a benchmark for the national currency exchange rate.

Carry trade is a certain trading strategy that involves rolling into a certain trade at a lower price only to see the price go up. It also explains a process of going into a certain assets trading in expectancy of a soon-to-come higher return rate. It also involves buying a badly-performing currency in order to convert it in a better-performing currency, counting on a profit in the difference.

A lot of traders are only aiming to buy or sell their assets for a certain price. That is where FILL OR KILL request comes in handy. FILL OR KILL is a request put down by a trader to conduct a deal only according to a certain price, set by a trader or otherwise negate the deal altogether.