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Base and Quote Currency: Read an FX Price with Units
Read FX pairs as quote units per base unit, calculate notional and pip changes, and distinguish pair direction from account and settlement currencies.
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Cross-Currency Rates: Calculate with Units and Quote Sides
Derive cross rates through a common currency using original examples, including bid-ask treatment, synchronized quotes and account-currency applications.
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Direct and Indirect FX Quotes: Perspective and Reciprocals
Understand domestic-currency quote perspective, invert two-sided FX prices correctly and avoid equal-percentage assumptions when reversing a pair.
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Forex vs Stocks: Compare the Instrument, Exposure and Workflow
Compare forex and stocks by ownership, quote units, exposure, costs and execution. Learn why the account and instrument matter more than the market label.
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FX Forward Points: Convert a Quoted Adjustment Into an Outright Rate
Convert positive and negative forward points into an outright FX rate, check quotation direction, and distinguish carry pricing from an exchange-rate forecast.
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Lots, Units and Contract Size: Translate Quantity Into Exposure
Convert lots to units with a checked example, distinguish futures multipliers from FX lot sizes, and audit quantity translation between instruments.
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Pip Value Calculator: Units and Account Currency
Calculate one pip in quote and account currency from base units, pip size and a conversion rate you supply. Includes a worked FX example and unit checks.
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Pips, Points and Ticks: Convert Price Distances Without a Factor-of-Ten Error
Convert one price movement into pips, platform points and futures ticks, then keep price units separate from position-dependent money values.
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Settlement Currency Conversion: Reconcile Trading P&L
Trace profit and loss from an instrument’s settlement currency into account currency with explicit rate direction, timestamps, fees and original examples.
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Spot and Forward FX: Compare Dates, Carry and Quote Direction
Understand why spot and forward currency prices differ, with a simplified interest-parity example and clear limits for futures and broker rolling products.
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