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RANGE
The difference between the highest and lowest price of a future recorded during a given trading session.
RATE
The price of one currency in terms of another, normally against USD.
REALIZED P/L
The profit and loss generated from closed positions.
REGULATED MARKET
A market that is regulated usually by a governmental agency that issues a number of guidelines and restrictions designed to protect investors.
REPORT VIEWER
The FXDD Reports Viewer is where the customer can access various account status reports that show in detail the activity as a customer of FXDD. There are 5 different Reports and the customer can customize any of the reports as to a specific time period. The 5 reports are the Trading History, the Pending Orders History (dependent on the platform), the Account History, the Session History and the Account Statement.
RESISTANCE POINT OR LEVEL
A price recognized by technical analysts as a price which will usually stop a movement of a foreign exchange rate from going higher. If a resistance level is broken; the technician will conclude that the price movement of the instrument will continue to go higher.
RETAIL SALES
An aggregated measure of the sales of retail goods over a stated time period, typically based on a data sampling that is extrapolated to model an entire country. In the U.S., the retail sales report is a monthly economic indicator compiled and released by the Census Bureau and the Department of Commerce. The report covers the previous month, and is released about two weeks after the month-end. Comparisons are made against historical data; year-over-year comparisons are the most-reported metric because they account for the seasonality of consumer-based retail.
RIGHT HAND SIDE
Corresponds to the Ask or Offer price of a foreign exchange rate. For example, given a price of .9630 - .9635, the right hand side is .9635. The right hand side is the side that a customer would buy at.
RISK CAPITAL
The amount of money the Customer is willing to put at risk and, which if lost would not, change the Customer's lifestyle or the Customer's family lifestyle.
ROLLOVER / SWAP
At the end of each business day, FXDD will automatically rollover or swap, all existing open positions into the next spot date. The mechanics in effect involve the simultaneous close of an existing position and the opening of a new spot position. FXDD will debit or credit the customer's account depending on the interest rate differential between the base currency and the counter currency and the direction of the customer's position. For example, if the customer is long a currency pair where the overnight rate for the base currency is higher than the counter currency, the customer will earn a small credit for positions held overnight. If the opposite is true, the customer account will be debited for the difference in the interest rate differential. The fundamental reason is if a customer is long a higher yielding currency, he should benefit from being able to invest and earn a higher return overnight than what he has to pay for being short the lower yielding currency.
ROLLOVER CREDIT
The credit (in base currency terms) added to a customer's account that is long a higher yielding currency overnight.
ROLLOVER DEBIT
The debit subtracted from a customer's account that is long a lower yielding currency overnight.
RUNNING A POSITION
The act of keeping open positions in hopes of a speculative gain.