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The amount of money you have made or lost on a position once it has been closed.
Relative strength index (RSI)
A chart indicator used in technical analysis. It identifies when trends are coming to the end of their current direction, as well as overbought and oversold market conditions.
Requote
A requote occurs when you request to execute an order at a specific price that is no longer available and you’re offered a different quote. This can happen during fast-moving markets.
Resistance level
A term used in technical analysis indicating a price level at which analysis suggests a predominance of selling – and hence a greater likelihood that the price will fail to break through the level.
Retail sales
This figure represents the total of durable and non-durable goods sales by retailers to consumers. Services are largely excluded from this statistic.
Rights issue
An additional issue of shares by a company to existing shareholders at an advantageous, discounted price, usually in order to raise new funds for further development or to finance a new acquisition. A two for five rights issue at 145 cents means that the existing shareholder has the right to acquire a further two shares for every five currently held at a new cost of 145 cents per share acquired.
Rollover
Closing an expiring futures position and reopening the position in the next tradeable future. In forex , the value of the process is measured by the interest rate differential between the two currencies. There’s usually a small cost for rolling over positions.
Running profit/loss
Shows how your open positions are performing: the unrealised money that you would gain or lose on your open positions if they were closed at prevailing market prices.