Many times we use acronyms. They're well-known
Most commonly used
- BTI: Best Trading Indicator
- SE: Short Entry
- LE: Long Entry
- TV: TradingView
- SL: Stop-Loss
- TP: Take Profit
- S/R: Supports or Resistances
- BE: Breakeven (also known as Entry Price)
- SL/BE: Stop Loss moved to the Breakeven price
- MTF: Multi-Timeframe
- SMA: Simple Moving Average
- EMA: Exponential Moving Average
- BB: Bollinger Bands
- ICH: Ichimoku
- DD: Drawdown
- HH: Higher Highs
- LL: Lower Lows
- MACD: Moving Average Convergence Divergence
- TTS: Trailing Stop
- TTP: Trailing Profit
- R/R: Risk/Reward
- EMA 20/50: EMA 20 crosses over EMA 50
- EMA 50/20: EMA 20 crosses under EMA 50 (EMA 50 crosses over EMA 20)
- FX: Forex
- ROI: Return on Investment: How much money you are making (or losing).
- OTC: Over-the-counter
- All-Time High (ATH): The highest price ever recorded!
- All-Time Low (ATL): The lowest price ever recorded.
Crypto specifics
- FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO): The emotion you feel when you panic buy.
- FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD): Spreading of fear and misinformation to gain an advantage.
- HODL: Buy and hold on to it for a long time!
- BUIDL: Keep your head down and build the next financial system.
- SAFU: Funds are safe!
- Do Your Own Research (DYOR): Don't trust, verify.
- Due Diligence (DD): Smart people make decisions based on facts.
- Anti Money Laundering (AML): Regulations that prevent criminals from hiding their money.
- Know Your Customer (KYC): Regulations that make exchanges verify your identity.
- REKT: What no one in my community will never become
BTI specifics
- BTI: Best Trading Indicator
- HR: High Rewards
- SHR: Super High Rewards
- BHR: Best High Rewards
Pips, Points, Ticks
Definitions are available on that page
Events
NFP: stands for “Non-Farm Payrolls” and is reported together with the average hourly earnings and the unemployment rate on the first Friday each month. This is a US report.
ECB speech: European Central Bank
FED speech
Actors
Fed: Federal Reserve – The central bank of the United States, in charge of the country’s monetary policy.
The Fed follows inflation rates, labor statistics, and economic growth to make interest rate decisions.ECB: European Central Bank. The central bank of the eurozone and the body responsible for monetary policy in the euro area.
