Gap
A discontinuity in a security's price chart where there is no trading activity between two periods.
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10 termsGoing Long
Buying a security in anticipation of its price rising.
Going Short
Selling a security in anticipation of its price falling.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
The total monetary value of all goods and services produced within a country's borders during a specific period.
G7
The seven leading industrial countries, being US, Germany, Japan, France, UK, Canada, Italy.
G10
G7 plus Belgium, Netherlands and Sweden, a group associated with IMF discussions. Switzerland is sometimes peripherally involved.
Gold Standard
The original system for supporting the value of currency issued. The was that where the price of gold is fixed against the currency it means that the increased supply of gold does not lower the price of gold but causes prices to increase.
Good until canceled
An instruction to a broker that unlike normal practice the order does not expire at the end of the trading day, although normally terminates at the end of the trading month.
Grid
Fixed margin within which exchange rates are allowed to fluctuate.
Gross National Product
Gross domestic product plus 'factor income from abroad' - income earned from investment or work abroad.
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