Glossaries & Common Acronym List

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The following Acronym List is meant as a quickie reference to those acronyms most commonly seen while scanning the pages of Forex Factory. It's obviously not meant to be a complete or comprehensive list. I can't guarantee 100% accuracy so please feel free to rattle my cage if you spot any errors and I'll make appropriate additions/corrections.

Last Update - May 8, 2010

In alphabetical order -

ADX.....Average Directional Index (technical indicator)

ATR.....Average True Range (technical indicator)

AUD.....Australian Dollar (ISO code)

BB.......Bollinger Bands (technical indicator)

BE.......Breakeven

BoC.....Bank of Canada

BoE.....Bank of England

BoJ.....Bank of Japan

BP.......Basis Point

CAD....Canadian Dollar (ISO code)

CBOT...Chicago Board of Trade

CCI.....Commodity Channel Index (technical indicator) also Consumer Confidence Index (economic indicator)

CFA.....Chartered Financial Analyst

CFD.....Contract For Difference

CFTC....Commodity Futures Trading Commission (regulatory)

CHF.....Swiss Franc (Confederation Helvetia Franc)

CME.....Chicago Mercantile Exchange

CNY.....Chinese Yuan (ISO code)

COT.....Commitments of Traders (market report)

CPI......Consumer Price Index (economic indicator)

CSI......Commodity Selection Index (technical indicator)

CTA.....Commodity Trading Advisor

DD.......Drawdown also Due Diligence also Dealing Desk see NDD

DJIA.....Dow Jones Industrial Average

EA.......Expert Advisor

ECB.....European Central Bank

ECN.....Electronic Communication Network also Electronic Currency Network

EMA.....Exponential Moving Average (technical indicator)

ETF......Exchange Traded Fund

EUR.....Euro (ISO code)

EW......Elliott Wave (theory)

FA.......Fundamental Analysis

FCM.....Futures Commission Merchant

FDM.....Forex Dealer Member

Fed.....Federal Reserve System

FF.......ForexFactory

FIFO....First In, First Out

FOMC...Federal Open Market Committee

FX.......Foreign Exchange

GBP.....Great Britain Pound Sterling (ISO code)

GDP.....Gross Domestic Product (economic indicator)

GMT....Greenwich Mean Time

HH......Higher High (chart)

HL......Higher Low (chart)

IB.......Introducing Broker also Interbank also Interactive Brokers also Inside Bar

IMF.....International Monetary Fund

ISO.....International Organization for Standardization

JPY.....Japanese Yen (ISO code)

LH......Lower High (chart)

LL.......Lower Low (chart)

LWMA....Linearly Weighted Moving Average (technical indicator)

MT4.....MetaTrader Version 4.00 (trading platform)

MA......Moving Average (technical indicator)

MACD....Moving Average Convergence Divergence (technical indicator)

MM......Market Maker also Money Management

MTF.....Multiple Time Frame

NASDAQ..National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation

NDA.....Non-Disclosure Agreement

NDD.....Non Dealing Desk

NFA.....National Futures Association (regulatory)

NFP.....Non-Farm Payroll (economic indicator)

NYSE...New York Stock Exchange

NZD.....New Zealand Dollar (ISO code)

OCO.....One-Cancels-the-Other (order type)

OHLC....Open, High, Low, Close (chart)

OTC.....Over-the-Counter

P&F.....Point and Figure (chart)

PA........Price Action

PB........Pin Bar abbreviation of Pinocchio Bar (chart)

PIP.......Price Interest Point also Performance Index Paper

PP........Pivot Point

PPI.......Producer Price Index (economic indicator)

PPZ.......Price Pivot Zone

PSAR.....Parabolic Stop and Reversal (technical indicator)

Quant...Quantitative Analysis

R/R.....Risk/Reward (ratio)

RSI.....Relative Strength Index (technical indicator)

RVI.....Relative Vigor Index (technical indicator)

SAR.....Stop and Reversal

SEC.....Securities and Exchange Commission (regulatory)

SL......Stop Loss (order)

SMA.....Simple Moving Average (technical indicator)

SMMA....Smoothed Moving Average (technical indicator)

S&P.....Standard & Poor's

S/R.....Support/Resistance

Stoch...Stochastic Oscillator (technical indicator)

STP.....Straight Through Processing

TA......Technical Analysis

TF......Time Frame

TL......Trend Line

TP......Take Profit (order)

TS......Trailing Stop (order)

TSI.....True Strength Index (technical indicator)

USD.....United States Dollar (ISO code)

USDX....United States Dollar Index (ISO code)

UTC.....Universal Time, Coordinated

WB......World Bank

XAG.....Silver (ISO code)

XAU.....Gold (ISO code)

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great work!

thnx!

I read PB alot, any ideas?

Probably pin bar. I'll add to the list. Thanks.

Predictive Index??


Great acronym list, thanks a lot for that info
Another good glossary is the one at ACMs website, is the one I usually check out...

Very good, thank you!

a nice abbr. collection

awesome.. thanks a lot..

Really useful, many thanks. Could you add PPI (input and output)? Seems to crop up frequently - is it Producer Price Index?

Done. Thanks for the feedback.

Added PPI and CPI.

Great basic reference guide - exactly what I need. I want to get a good grounding in appropirate forex theory before I start trading live so I really need to get some of these terms down!

Thank you for the glossary. There is one I can't find in there and this a serious question.

What is an "ass chart"? I've heard it referred to quite a bit in the EUR/USD thread.

Thanks so much for any advice,

Donnie

Hi, Donnie.

This one had me stumped so I had to ask around. My good buddy ak4x informs me the term was coined by a FF member who goes by the name gatorinla.

Here you can read what is probably the most accurate explanation...
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?p=3345744

I think the term has evolved so that it now refers to any chart pulled from anyone's ass. The implications should be fairly obvious.

Hope that helps.