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pip

The tiny standard step used to measure how much a currency price moves.

The fuller meaning

The standard unit of a forex price move: 0.0001 for most pairs and 0.01 for pairs quoted in Japanese yen. Spreads, stops and targets are counted in pips, and position size follows from pip value times stop distance.

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