Which forex terms still confuse you?
This thread is the confession booth for vocabulary. Liquidity, funding rate, gamma, intervention, hawkish, dovish, slippage, requote — the list never ends, and everyone has gaps.
Post a term you're not sure about. Members will explain it plainly, one term per reply, with a concrete example rather than a dictionary definition.
There are no silly questions here; the glossary-style guides exist because experienced traders forget how much jargon they've absorbed.
Background: Bid, ask and slippage: why your order fills at a different price
Why buy trades open at one price and close at another, why a stop can trigger when the chart never touched it, and how slippage happens.
Why did my stop-loss trigger when the price on the chart didn't reach it?
Charts usually show the bid price, but a sell position's stop is triggered by the ask. If the spread widened, the ask could have touched your stop while the bid line stayed away from it.
What is slippage?
The difference between the price you expected and the price your order was filled at. It is most common in fast or thin markets, such as around news releases.
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