Showing posts with label Currency Nicknames. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Currency Nicknames

Nickname of pairs has been used by many trader around forums, courses or in social forex discussion. It can be interesting because they're the simplest way to pronounce them.

GBP/USD = Cable (from Trans-Atlantic cable between US & Britain)
EUR/USD = Euro or Fiber
USD/CHF = Swissy
USD/CAD = Loonie (from bird on Canadian coin)
AUD/USD = Ozzie
EUR/JPY = Euppy (pronounced "Yuppy")
GBP/JPY = GopherEUR/GBP = Chunnel (from channel tunnel between Britain & France)USD/JPY = Yen

Thanks to Cici from Forexfactory
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