Key Trading Terms and Concepts

Ask

• The current market price at which you can buy an asset.

Bull

• A trader or investor who expects prices to rise and buys with the aim of selling later at a higher price.

Bull Market

• A market environment characterized by broadly rising prices and positive sentiment—often visualized as an upward move on charts.

Return

• The payout or percentage you receive from a position. On platforms like Qption, traders may receive up to 45% of the investment amount even on a losing trade (as configured per asset). The return rate is set at purchase.

Volatility

• The degree of price fluctuation over a given period. Higher volatility means larger, faster price swings.

Deposit

• Funds available in a trading account that can be used to open and manage positions.

Diversification

• A risk-management approach of spreading capital across different assets or markets to reduce exposure to any single position.

Indicator

• A technical analysis tool derived from price/volume data, used to assess trend, momentum or volatility and inform trading decisions.

Bid

• The current market price at which you can sell an asset.

Price Corridor

• A price range on the chart bounded by support (lower boundary) and resistance (upper boundary) within which the asset trades.

Correction

• A temporary counter-trend move that retraces part of a strong advance or decline before the prior trend potentially resumes.

Correlation

• A measure of how two assets move relative to each other, from −1 (inverse) to +1 (direct). Example: EUR/USD and GBP/USD often move in similar directions.

Liquidity

• How easily an asset can be bought or sold without materially moving its price. Higher trading volume typically implies greater liquidity.

Support Line

• A price area where buying interest historically emerges and helps prevent further declines.

Resistance Line

• A price area where selling interest historically emerges and helps limit further advances.

Trend Line

• A line connecting successive higher lows in an uptrend (support) or lower highs in a downtrend (resistance) to illustrate trend direction.

Bear

• A trader or investor who expects prices to fall and looks to profit from declines.

Bear Market

• A prolonged period of broadly falling prices and negative sentiment—often depicted as persistent downtrends on charts.

Bear Raid

• A coordinated effort by traders to push an asset’s price lower, typically via concentrated selling.

Trader Sentiment

• An indicator reflecting the overall bias of market participants (e.g., the proportion of long vs. short positions).

Bar

• A chart element that displays open, high, low and close (OHLC) for a specific time period; used in bar charts.

Bonus

• Extra funds credited by the platform (e.g., as a promotion or deposit incentive) that can be used for trading under specific terms.