Question: What are the nicknames(abbreviations) of each FX currency?
When you see some Technical or Fundamental Analysis reports by financial companies, you may often hear abbreviations of foreign currencies.
If you don’t know the meaning of these nicknames, you wouldn’t understand what the analysis is really about at all.
Here are the list of nicknames of each foreign currency.
USD – US dollar
Buck or Greenback. It is the color of the currency. USD is also often mentioned as just “dollars”.
GBP – UK Pound
Sterling or Quid. GBPUSD pair is called “Cable”, it is from the transatlantic cable to transmit the price in former days.
AUD- Australian Dollar
Aussie.
NZD – New Zealand Dollar
Kiwi. It is from New Zealand national bird.
CAD – Canadian Dollar
Loonie. It is from their national bird which appears on the bank notes.
CHF – Swiss Franc
Swisse. CHF stands for Confoederatio Helvetica(the latin name of the country) Franc.
NOK – Norwegian Kroa
Nokie.
SEK – Swedish Kroa
Stockie.
JPY – Japanese Yen
YEN.
