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1. In order to get the most out of your subscription we highly recommend becoming familiar with regular trading terminology and acronyms we use and regular basis. If you have a question regarding trading styles, how we find the stocks we play, brokers, and other important topics please use the search feature on the blog. If you are unable to find an answer to your question feel free to ask the chat room between 4:00 PM and 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time.
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3. This room has been built around keeping off topic chatter out and real time momentum alerts in. For the most part we focus on stocks under $20. Stocks like AAPL, RIMM, GOOG may be great plays but alerts in this chat don’t do any good and are considered off topic in this chat (as are options). Low priced stocks are our niche so we ask you to please respect that. (exception to the $20 rule – only when market is in the tank and its FAZ time)
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8. Trade well and have fun!
Acronyms etc.
Off the top of my head list for the newbies visiting the chat room and blog. Everyone, please feel free to add a comment for any others not on this list!
- HOD- high of day
- LOD- low of day
- EOD- end of day
- O/N- overnight
- 52s- new 52 week high
- Green- price is above prior day closing price
- Red- price is below prior day close
- “Green to red” – (vice versa red to green) means stock was above prior day’s close, but now has dropped below
- ADR -average day range over a certain period number of days, i.e. ADR(30), the higher the number, the more volatile
- D/R or dayranger- see above
- UBB- Upper Bollinger Band
- LBB -Lower Bollinger Band
- DD- Due diligence, do your homework on the stock, news, earnings, fundamentals etc.
- E/R- Earnings Report
- Pre- Pre-market trades
- AH- After Hours trades
- Low float -usually small cap companies with fewer shares issued and a lot of those shares owned by insiders or institutions. Hence lower number of shares actively traded. That increases volatility and potential for short squeeze or drop/rise on E/R or news.
- R/R- Risk/reward
- 10/60 cross- See post on sidebar under important posts.
- Muddy zone-Search blog for that phrase, on daily chart is area between the EMA 10/SMA 30 (or 20)
- Jiggy- phrase coined by Muddy a couple years ago. Refers to watching the Scottrade quote box. When a stock is gearing up for a possible big move the bid/ask size, bid/ask exchanges, and the prices all start to change very rapidly as orders are increasing tremendously.
Everyone, do some homework here on the blog. Tons of good info.
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