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Spot trading, including trading in Forex, is the making buy or sell trades of any assets with their supply in one working day. In other words, the parties to the trade determine in advance the specific points (spots) — time and price, in accordance to which the trading transactions will be made. Spot can be named as an analogue the cash operations. The normative time for making settlements on this is 3 days (this is the maximum). Please note: only working (banking) days are always considered.

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Jobless claims is an economic indicator used in fundamental analysis of the Forex market. It shows number of people in the USA, who submitted their initial claim for unemployment benefit. The data on initial claims is published every week on Thursdays at 08:30 a.m EST. The statistics on other countries is also published on a weekly basis, but at present are less indicative for experts than the US data. In particular, analysts pay attention to Jobless claims figure in Great Britain, which is published at 08:30 a.m at London time.

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