UPDATED: 6/16/21
Here are a few of the abbreviations I see in the plethora of trading chat rooms I visit or have visited over the years. I will continuously update it. ~B3
| Abbv:Acro A-L |
Expansion A-L | | | Abbv:Acro M-Z |
Expansion M-Z |
| AD | Advances – Declines | | | MA | Moving Average |
| advdec | Advances – Declines | | | MACD | Moving Average Convergence & Divergence |
| afk | Away from Keyboard | | | MAE | Maximum Adverse Excursion |
| algo(s) | Trading Algorithm(s) | | | MFE | Maximum Favorable Excursion |
| ATH | All-Time High | | | MI | Market Internals |
| ATL | All-Time Low | | | min | Minute |
| ATM | At the Money (options) | | | min | Minimum |
| ATR | Average True Range | | | mm | Measured Move |
| avg | Average | | | MP | Market Profile |
| b/e or BE | Break-Even | | | MTF | Multiple Timeframes |
| BAM! | Hit Target | | | OBB | Outside Bar Breakout |
| BB! | Boom Bitches! (Hit Target) | | | OR | Opening Range |
| bbiab | Be Back in a Bit | | | OR50 | Halfway between ORH and ORL |
| bbl | Be Back Later | | | ORH | Opening Range High |
| bfly | Butterfly (options play) | | | ORL | Opening Range Low |
| brb | Be Right Back | | | OTM | Out of the Money (options) |
| Brdth | Breadth | | | ovb | Overbought |
| brk | Breakout | | | ovn | Overnight |
| BTFD | Buy the Failed (or Freakin’) Dip | | | ovs | Oversold |
| BTFDYFI | Buy the Freakin’ Dip You Freakin’ Idiot! | | | p | Pip |
| capit | Capitulation | | | PCS | Put Credit Spread (Bull) |
| car(s) | Contracts at Risk | | | PDS | Put Debit Spread (Bear) |
| CCS | Call Credit Spread (Bear) | | | PF | Profit Factor |
| CDS | Call Debit Spread (Bull) | | | PHOD | Potential High of Day |
| cts | Contracts | | | piv | Pivot |
| DCB | Dead Cat Bounce | | | PL | Profit or Loss |
| DFTD | Done for the Day | | | PLOD | Potential Low of Day |
| dir | Direction (long or short) | | | POC | Point of Control |
| DITM | Deep In the Money (options) | | | pp | Pivotal Point |
| div | Dividend | | | PR | Payoff Ratio (R:R) |
| dl | Double Long (2x risk) | | | pt | Point |
| dly | Daily | | | QA | Quantitative Analysis |
| ds | Double Short (2x risk) | | | R:R | Reward divided by Risk |
| dt | Daytrade | | | R1, R2, etc | Resistence1, Resistence2 |
| DTE | Days till Expiry | | | res | Resistance |
| DTI | Directional Trend Index | | | ret | Retracement |
| EOD | End of Day | | | rng | Range |
| EOM | End of Month | | | ROC, ROIC | Return on (Invested) Capital |
| EOQ | End of Quarter | | | rr | Risk Reward |
| EOW | End of Week | | | RSI | Relative Strength Index |
| EOY | End of Year | | | rt | Round Trip |
| ETD | Extreme Tick Down | | | RTH | Regular Trading Hours (NYSE) |
| ETU | Extreme Tick Up | | | RVI | Relative Volatility Index |
| exp | Expiry | | | s | Short |
| Fib | Fibonacci Retracement Level | | | SAR S/R |
Stop & Reverse Support & Resistance |
| fly | Butterfly (options play) | | | S1, S2, etc | Support1, Support2 |
| fut | Futures | | | SB, SBT | Signal Bar, Signal Bar Trade |
| fx | Forex | | | scl | Scale |
| ga | Good Afternoon | | | shr | Shares |
| GA | Genetic Algorithm | | | SOH | Sit on Hands (Don’t Trade) |
| gj | Good Job | | | sry | Sorry |
| gl | Good Luck | | | stddev | Standard Deviation |
| Glbx | Globex Session (Overnight) | | | STFR | Sell the failed (or Freakin’) Rally |
| gm | Good Morning | | | sup | Support |
| gn | Good Night | | | sym | Symbol (of trading Instrument) |
| hdg | Hedge | | | t | Tick |
| hh | Higher High | | | TF | Timeframe |
| HOD | High of the Day | | | tg | Target |
| htf | Higher Timeframe | | | tgt | Target |
| HVN | High Volume Node | | | tl | Triple Long (3x risk) |
| HWB | Half-way Back | | | tr | Trail |
| IB | Iceberg Order | | | trl | Trail |
| IBB | Inside Bar Breakout | | | ts | Triple Short (3x risk) |
| IC | Iron Condor (options play) | | | VAH | Value Area High |
| imho | In My Humble Opinion | | | VAL | Value Area Low |
| imo | In My Opinion | | | VIG, vig | Commissions – vigorish (reference to loan-sharks, bookies, etc.) |
| ITM | In the Money (options) | | | Vol | Volatility |
| l | Long | | | VPOC | Volume Point of Control |
| LIS | Line in the Sand | | | VPOC | Virgin Point of Control |
| ll | Lower Low | | | wb | Welcome Back |
| LOD | Low of the Day | | | WWBD | What would Blondetrader do |
| LRC | Linear Regression Channel | | | X, x | Stop |
| ltf | Lower Timeframe | | | x’d | Stopped Out |
| LVN | Low Volume Node | | | Zzz | Boring Market |
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