Economic Indicators /

• CPI - Consumer Price Index

• PPI - Producer Price Index

• NFP - Non-Farm Payroll

• PMI - Purchasing Managers' Index

• FOMC - Federal Open Market Committee

 

Time /

• RTH - Regular Trading Hours

• ETH - Extended Trading Hours

• AH - After Hours

• PM - Pre Market

• EOD - End of Day

• EOW - End of Week

• EOQ - End of Quarter

• EOM - End of Month

• EOY - End of Year

 

Order Types /

• MKT - Market Order

• LMT - Limit Order

• STP - Stop Order

• SL - Stop-Limit Order

• TSL - Trailing Stop-Limit Order

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Technical Analysis /

• BOS - Break of Structure

• COS - Change of Structure

• ATR - Average True Range

• PML - Pre-Market Low

• PMH - Pre-Market High

• LOD - Low of Day

• HOD - High of Day

• LWL - Last Week Low

• LWH - Last Week High

• MA - Moving Average

• RSI - Relative Strength Index

• MACD - Moving Average Convergence Divergence

• SMA - Simple Moving Average

• EMA - Exponential Moving Average

• WMA - Weighted Moving Average

• VWAP - Volume Weighted Average Price

 

Risk Management /

• EV - Expected Value

• VaR - Value at Risk

• R/R - Risk/Reward Ratio

• PT - Price Target

• TP - Take Profit

• SL - Stop Loss

 

Regulations and Organizations /

• SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission

• FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

• CFTC - Commodity Futures Trading Commission

• FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

 

Global Markets /

• FX - Foreign Exchange

• EUR - Euro

• JPY - Japanese Yen

• GBP - British Pound

• CNY - Chinese Yuan

 

Corporate Actions /

• IPO - Initial Public Offering

• M&A - Mergers and Acquisitions

• DRIP - Dividend Reinvestment Plan

• SPAC - Special Purpose Acquisition Company

• RSU - Restricted Stock Unit

 

Investment Types /

• ETF - Exchange-Traded Fund

• REIT - Real Estate Investment Trust

• ADR - American Depository Receipt

• MMF - Money Market Fund

• CD - Certificate of Deposit