Description | Stocks | Forex | Futures | Options | indices | Bonds | Funds | Crypto |
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Defination | A stock is a security that represents a fractional ownership in a company | The name forex, is a portmanteau of foreign and exchange. It's often abbreviated as fx. | A futures contract is an agreement between two parties which are the buyer and the seller. The buyer pays the seller today for the promise of the commodity at a future date. | An option contract is a contract which conveys to its owner, the holder, the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a specific quantity of an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price on or before a specified date, depending on the style of the option. | Indices are collections of equities, assets, or commodities that measure the performance of a market or sector. Index trading is a way to gain exposure to the financial markets without investing in individual stocks or other assets directly. Index traders buy and sell shares in a basket of underlying assets, or an index-tracking fund, and speculate on the price movements of the index | Bonds are debt securities issued by corporations, governments, or other organizations and sold to investors | A fund is a pool of money set aside for a specific purpose. The pool of money in a fund is often invested and professionally managed in order to generate returns for its investor | Cryptocurrency or crypto refers to a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it1 |
Point size | Usally it is 1/100 | Called a Pip and in most USD pairs its value equal to 1/10000 of the price (the 4th digit to the right of the decimel) while for JPY pairs it is 1/00 | Usally is 1/100 | Usally is 1/100 | Usally is 1/100 | Usally is 1/100 | Usally is 1/100 | Usally is 1/10000 |