Abbreviation |
Description |
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13T |
13 tick Trap |
15MA |
15 minute 20 bar moving average plotted on 5 minute chart |
16T |
16 Ticks |
17T |
17 tick Trap |
18BD |
BreakOut Below 18 bar range so 90% chance will not rally to new high of day |
18BU |
Breakout Above 18 bar range so 90% chance will not fall to new low of day |
18T |
18 Ticks |
1BFF |
One Bar Final Flag |
1H |
1 Hour |
1MLD |
strong enough bear breakout for at least One More small Leg Down |
1MLU |
strong enough bear breakout for at least One More small Leg Up |
1P |
First Pause or Pullback in a strong trend |
1T |
1 Tick |
20GB |
Twenty Gap Bars, Twenty consecutive bars that have not touched the moving average |
2BR |
Two Bar Reversal |
2E |
Second Entry |
2EB |
Second Entry Buy |
2ES |
Second Entry Sell |
2H |
2 Hour |
2HM |
Two hours from moving average |
2LD |
Two Legs Down |
2LSD |
Two Legs Sideways or Down |
2LSU |
Two Legs Sideways or Up |
2LT |
possible Second Leg Trap in a trading range |
2LU |
Two Legs Up |
2S |
Second Signal |
2SB |
Second Signal Buy |
2SS |
Second Signal Sell |
2T |
2 Ticks |
3EB |
Third Entry Buy |
3ES |
Third Entry Sell |
3H |
3 Hour |
3LD |
Third Leg Down |
3LU |
Third Leg Up |
3T |
3 Ticks |
4d |
Four consecutive bear bars and is therefore too strong for a long |
4H |
4 Hour |
4T |
4 Ticks |
4u |
Four consecutive bull bars and is therefore too strong for a short |
50P |
50% Pullback |
5H |
5 Hour |
5T |
5 tick Trap |
60M |
60 Minute |
60MA |
60 minute 20 bar Exponential Moving Average |
60MC |
60 Minute Chart |
6H |
6 Hour |
6T |
6 Ticks |
9T |
9 Ticks |
? |
Possible |
A1D |
At least One more small leg Down |
A1U |
At least One more small leg Up |
A2 |
A two legged PullBack to the Exponential Moving Average in a trend |
A22 |
A second entry in a two legged Pullback to the Exponential Moving Average in a trend |
AI |
Always In |
AIA |
Always In Aggressive trader (takes every reversal, about 10 per day) |
AIBL |
Always In long Bulls |
AIBLE |
Always In Bulls can Exit below and buy again above bull bar |
AIBR |
Always In short Bears |
AIBRE |
Always In Bears can Exit above and sell again below bear bar |
AIC |
Always In Conservative trader (only takes the strongest reversals, about 2-5 per day) |
AIL |
Always In Long |
AIS |
Always In Short |
APSBL |
Average entry Price for Scale in BuLls |
APSBR |
Average entry Price for Scale in BeaRs |
AR |
Actual Risk |
ATH |
All Time High |
ATM |
At the Money option strike price |
B |
Buy or Long, depending on context |
BA |
Buy Above or probably buyers at the high of the bar |
BAG |
Breakaway Gap, the first gap of any kind after a trend reversal (only certain in hindsight) |
BB |
Buy Below or probably buyers at the low of the bar scaling in lower |
BB2 |
Better to wait for a strong bull breakout, or more buying pressure and second entry buy |
BBLB |
Big Bull Bar |
BBLC |
Broad Bull Channel |
BBLL |
Biggest Bull bar Late in bull trend so possible exhaustion gap |
BBLMC |
Bar Bull Micro Channel |
BBLO |
Better to Buy with Limit Orders below bars than stop orders above |
BBP |
Better to Buy PullBack than buying at high |
BBRB |
Big Bear Bar |
BBRC |
Broad Bear Channel |
BBRL |
Biggest Bear bar Late in bear trend so possible exhaustion gap |
BBRMC |
Bar Bear Micro Channel |
BBS |
Bulls will scale in lower, bears will scale in higher |
BBSA |
Buyers Below, Sellers Above |
BC |
Broad Channel |
BD |
Bars Down |
BDBU |
Big Down, Big Up |
BDBUTR |
Big down + big up = big confusion = TradingRange likely |
BDUC |
Big Down, big Up, big Confusion so trading range likely |
BE |
Breakeven |
BFD |
Strong Bear Breakout and Follow-through so more Down |
BFF |
Bar Final Flag |
BFU |
Strong Bull Breakout and Follow-through so more Up |
Bg |
Buying |
BGP |
Buying Pressure |
BL |
Bull |
BLB |
Bull Bars |
BLC |
Broad bull Channel |
BLF |
Bull Flag |
BLR |
Bull Reversal |
BLSC |
Bull Scalpers |
BLSH |
Buy Low Sell High |
BLSHS |
Buy Low, Sell High, and Scalp |
BLT |
Bull Trend |
BLTR |
probably Bull leg in Trading Range and not in bull trend |
BO |
Breakout |
BOF |
strong BreakOut with good Follow-through |
BOM |
Breakout Mode, bulls and bears scaling in, both swinging |
BOP |
BreakOut Point |
BOUD |
Breakout Up or Down |
BP |
Breakout Pullback |
BPs |
Breakout Pullbacks |
BR |
Bear |
BRB |
Bear Bars |
BRC |
Broad bear Channel |
BRF |
Bear Flag |
BRN |
Big Round Number like 2100, 2200 |
BRR |
Bear Reversal |
Brs |
Buyers |
BRSC |
Bear Scalpers |
BRT |
Bear Trend |
BRTR |
probably Bear leg in Trading Range and not in bear trend |
BSB |
Buy Signal Bar |
BSLO |
Better to Sell with Limit Orders above bars than stop orders below |
BSP |
Better to Sell rally than sell at low |
BT |
Breakout Test or Bought, depending on context |
BTC |
Buy the Close |
BTCBL |
Buy The Close Bulls |
BTCE |
Buy the Close rally until the End of day |
BTs |
Breakout Tests |
BTTR |
Bar Tight Trading Range |
BTW |
Better To Wait |
BU |
Bars Up |
BUBD |
Big Up, Big Down |
BUBDTR |
Big up + big down = big confusion = TradingRange likely |
BUDC |
Big Up, big Down, big Confusion so trading range likely |
BV |
Buy Vacuum test of resistance |
BW |
Barb Wire |
BWB |
Better to Wait for a Breakout |
BWBL |
Bars without Bull bodies |
BWBOUD |
Better to wait for a breakout up or down |
BWBR |
Bars without Bear bodies |
BWT |
Better Wait for Tomorrow |
BX |
Buy Climax |
BXS |
Buy Climaxes |
BZ |
Buy Zone |
C |
Close |
CAM |
Close Above Midpoint of the bar |
CBM |
Close Below Midpoint of the bar |
CBX |
Consecutive Buy Climax |
CBXS |
Consecutive Buy Climaxes |
CC |
consecutive |
CCB |
Consecutive Bottoms |
CCT |
Consecutive Tops |
Cd |
Closed |
CH |
Channel |
CLM |
Close of Last Month |
CLW |
Close of Last Week |
CLY |
Close of Last Year |
CM |
Close of Month |
COD |
Close of Day |
COH |
Close on High |
COL |
Close on Low |
COLM |
Close of Last Month |
COLW |
Close of Last Week |
COM |
Close of Month |
Context |
All of the bars to the left showing buying and selling pressure, support and resistance |
COT |
Close of Today |
COW |
Close of Week |
COY |
Close of Yesterday |
CS |
Closes |
CSX |
Consecutive Sell Climax |
CSXS |
Consecutive Sell Climaxes |
CT |
Countertrend, against the trend of the past several bars or even of the entire day |
CW |
Close of Week |
CY |
Close of Yesterday |
DB |
Double Bottom, which can even be two consecutive bars with identical lows |
DBBF |
Double Bottom Bull Flag, a horizontal pattern that contains a DoubleBottom and forming after a possible bottom |
DBL |
Disappointed Bulls |
DBR |
Disappointed Bears |
DBs |
Double Bottoms, which can even be two consecutive bars with identical lows |
DBTC |
Disappointed Buy The Close Bulls |
DD |
Doji Day or Doji bar |
DDIV |
Double Divergence |
DFT |
Disappointing Follow-through so possible Trading range |
DIV |
Divergence |
DL |
Dueling Lines |
DP |
DoubleTop PullBack or DoubleBottom PullBack |
DPs |
DoubleTop PullBacks or DoubleBottom PullBacks |
DSTC |
Disappointed Sell The Close Bears |
DT |
Double Top, which can even be two consecutive bars with identical highs |
DTBF |
Double Top Bear Flag, a horizontal pattern that contains a DoubleTop and forming after a possible top |
DTs |
Double Tops |
EB |
Entry Bar |
EBLT |
End of day Bull Trap |
EBRT |
End of day Bear Trap |
EBs |
Entry Bars |
EBTC |
End of day Buy The Close bull trend |
EG |
Exhaustion Gap, a gap at any kind at the end of a trend, just before a reversal (only certain in hindsight) |
ELOM |
End of day Limit Order Market |
EMA |
Exponential Moving Average (I use a 20 bar) |
EOD |
End of Day |
EOM |
End of Month |
EOW |
End of Week |
EPB |
Endless PullBack |
esp |
especially |
ESTC |
End of day Sell the Close bear trend |
ET |
Expanding Triangle |
ETs |
Expanding Triangles |
F |
Fail, Failure |
FBO |
Failed BreakOut |
FD |
Failed |
FF |
Final Flag, usually a horizontal pattern after a trend. The breakout often fails and reverses |
FFs |
Final Flags |
FG |
Failing |
FRD |
For Rest of the Day |
FS |
Fails or Failures |
FT |
Follow Through |
FTCL |
Failed Trend Channel Line |
G |
Gap |
G2 |
A second entry on a gap setup |
GB |
Gap Bar |
GBs |
Gap Bars |
GS |
Gaps |
GT |
Gap Test |
GUB |
Give Up Bar, breakout that often leads to a swing |
GUD |
Bull Give Up Bar so bears giving up |
GUU |
Bear Give Up Bar so bulls giving up |
GX |
Globex Session |
H |
High or High of Day |
H1 |
One legged pullback in a bull move |
H2 |
Two legged pullback in a bull move |
H3 |
Three legged pullback in a bull move |
HC |
Highest Close of the day or of swing up |
HD |
High of Day |
HH |
Higher High |
HHs |
Higher Highs |
HL |
Higher Low |
HLM |
High of Last Month |
HLs |
Higher Lows |
HLW |
High of Last Week |
HLY |
High of Last Year |
HM |
High of Month |
HOD |
High of the Day |
HOLM |
High of Last Month |
HOLW |
High of Last Week |
HOO |
High of opening range |
HOT |
High of Today so far |
HOW |
High of Week |
HOY |
High of Yesterday |
HOYR |
High of Year |
HP |
High Probability |
HPW |
Higher Probability to Wait for a breakout or better setup |
HPWF |
Higher Probability to Wait for a breakout and Follow-through |
Hr |
Higher |
HRP |
Higher Probability |
Hs |
Highs |
HSB |
Head and Shoulders Bottom, a continuation pattern in both bull and bear markets that sometimes is a reversal pattern |
HSBs |
Head and Shoulder Bottoms, continuation patterns in both bull and bear markets that sometimes are reversal patterns |
HST |
Head and Shoulders Top, a bull continuation pattern in both bull and bear markets that sometimes is a reversal pattern |
HSTs |
Head and Shoulder Tops, bull continuation patterns in both bull and bear markets that sometimes are reversal patterns |
HTF |
Higher Time Frame (a 60 min chart compared to a 5 min) |
HTFs |
Higher Time Frames (a 60 min chart compared to a 5 min) |
HW |
High of Week |
HY |
High of Yesterday |
IB |
Inside bar, the high of the bar is at or below the high of the prior bar and the low is at or above the low of the prior bar |
ID |
Inside Day |
ii |
consecutive inside bars |
iii |
Three inside bars in a row |
ioi |
Outside bar surrounded by Inside bars |
IR |
Initial Risk |
L |
Low or Low of Day |
L1 |
One legged PullBack in a bear move |
L1=2 |
Leg 1 equals Leg 2 Measureed Move |
L2 |
Two legged PullBack in a bear move |
L3 |
Three legged PullBack in a bear move |
LBL |
Limit order Bull scalpers |
LBLM |
Limit order Bull scalpers have been making Money |
LBLNM |
Limit order Bull scalpers have Not been making Money |
LBR |
Limit order Bear scalpers |
LBRM |
Limit order Bear scalpers have been making Money |
LBRNM |
Limit order Bear scalpers have Not been making Money |
LC |
Lowest Close of the day or of swing down |
LD |
Low of Day |
LH |
Lower High |
LHs |
Lower Highs |
LHST |
Left shoulder of a Head and Shoulders Top |
lim |
limit order |
LL |
Lower Low |
LLM |
Low of Last Month |
LLs |
Lower Lows |
LLW |
Low of Last Week |
LM |
Low of Month |
LOA |
sell with Limit Order Above bars |
LOB |
buy with Limit Order Below bars |
LOD |
Low of the Day |
LOLM |
Low of Last Month |
LOLW |
Low of Last Week |
LOM |
Limit Order Market, sellers scaling in above, buyers below, both scalping |
LOME |
Limit Order Market until End of day |
LOO |
Limit Order Open so early trading range likely |
LOPTM |
Lots of Overlap and Prominent Tails so only Minor reversal likely |
LOS |
Limit Order Scalpers |
LOT |
Low of Today so far |
LOY |
Low of Yesterday |
LOYR |
Low of Year |
LP |
Low Probability so swing only or wait |
LPB |
Low Probability Buy, probably sellers above, and sideways more likely than up |
LPS |
Low Probability Short, probably buyers below, and sideways more likely than down |
Lr |
Lower |
LRP |
Lower Probability |
Ls |
Lows |
LTR |
Lower Trading Range |
LW |
Low of Week |
LY |
Low of Yesterday |
LYR |
Low of Last Year |
MA |
Moving Average |
MAG |
Moving Average Gap Bar |
MAGS |
Moving Average Gap Bars |
MC |
Microchannel |
MDB |
Micro Double Bottom |
MDBS |
Micro Double Bottoms |
MDT |
Micro Double Top |
MDTS |
Micro Double Tops |
MG |
Measuring Gap, a gap of any kind that can lead to a measured move (only certain in hindsight) |
MGA |
Magnet Above |
MGB |
Magnet Below |
MGs |
Measuring Gaps, gaps of any kind that can lead to measured moves (only certain in hindsight) |
MIN |
Minimum or Minutes |
MJHL |
Major Higher Low |
MJLH |
Major Lower High |
mkt |
market |
MM |
Measured Move |
MMD |
Measured Move Down |
MMs |
Measured Moves |
MMT |
Measured Move Target |
MMTA |
Measured Move Target(s) Above |
MMTB |
Measured Move Target(s) Below |
MMTS |
Measured Move Targets |
MMU |
Measured Move Up |
MMUD |
Measured Move Up or Down |
MNHL |
Minor Higher Low |
MNLH |
Minor Lower High |
mo |
momentum |
MP |
Midpoint |
MRLD |
Most Recent Leg Down |
MRLU |
Most Recent Leg Up |
MRV |
Minor trend Reversal so trading range more likely |
MTB |
Micro Triple Bottom |
MTCL |
Micro Trend Channel Line |
MTL |
Micro Trend Line |
MTR |
Major Trend Reversal |
MTRS |
Major Trend Reversals |
MTT |
Micro Triple Top |
MW |
MicroWedge, a wedge formed by only 3 - 4 bars |
NDB |
Nested Double Bottom |
NDT |
Nested Double Top |
NEBM |
Not Enough Bars for Major Trend Reversal so Trading Range likely |
NEBP |
Not Enough Buying Pressure |
NESP |
Not Enough Selling Pressure |
NG |
Negative Gap, pullback overlaps the breakout point but still can get measured move |
NHEP |
Not High Enough Probability unless swing stop and scale in |
NHP |
Not High Probability |
NHSB |
Nested Head and Shoulders Bottom, R shoulder is smaller |
NHST |
Nested Head and Shoulders Top, right shoulder is smaller |
NL |
NeckLine |
NS |
Not high enough probability for a scalp |
NSS |
Not high enough probability for Scalp, not enough time or room for Swing, better to wait |
NTS |
Not enough time to swing or to scale in with limit orders |
NW |
Nested Wedge, 3rd leg is smaller wedge |
O |
Open |
OB |
Outside bar, the high is at or above the high of the prior bar and the low is at or below the low |
OBSS |
Okay Buy if Swing Stop |
OBSSS |
Only Buy if Swing Stop and Scale in Lower |
OBT |
Overbought |
OD |
Outside down bar (an Outside bar with its Close below its open and a body that is at least a third of its range) |
ODD |
Outside Down Day |
OEL |
Ok for always In bulls to Exit Long and buy again above bull bar |
OES |
Ok for always In bears to Exit Short and Sell again below bear bar |
OL |
OverLap |
OLM |
Open of Last Month |
OLW |
Open of Last Week |
OLY |
Open of Last Year |
OM |
Open of Month |
OO |
OutsideBar followed by a larger OutsideBar |
OOD |
Open of Day |
OOM |
Open of Month |
OOT |
Open of Today |
OOW |
Open of Week |
OOY |
Open of Yesterday |
OR |
Opening Reversal |
ORD |
Opening Reversal Down |
ORG |
Opening Range |
ORU |
Opening Reversal Up |
ORV |
Opening Reversal |
OSD |
Oversold |
OSS |
Only Scalp if wide Stop and Scale in |
OSSS |
Okay Sell if Swing Stop |
OSSSS |
Only Sell if Swing Stop and Scale in Higher |
OTM |
Out of the Money option strike price |
OU |
outside up bar (an Outside bar with its Close above its open and a body that is at least a third of its range) |
OUD |
Outside Up Day |
OW |
Open of Week |
OY |
Open of Yesterday |
P |
Probability |
PA |
Price Action |
PB |
Pullback |
PBA |
Probably Buyers Above |
PBB |
Probably Buyers Below |
PBs |
Pullbacks |
PBX |
Parabolic Buy Climax |
PH |
Possible High of day, but low probability so swing or wait |
PL |
Possible Low of day, but low probability so swing or wait |
poss |
possible |
PP |
Probably |
prob |
probably |
PS |
Possibly |
PSA |
Probably Sellers Above |
PSB |
Probably Sellers Below |
PSX |
Parabolic Sell Climax |
PT |
Profit Target |
PTG |
Profit Taking |
PTR |
Profit Taker |
PTRS |
Profit Takers |
pts |
points |
PW |
Parabolic Wedge |
R1AR |
Reward 1 Times Actual Risk |
R1IR |
Reward 1 Times Initial Risk |
R1R |
Reward 1 Times Risk |
R2AR |
Reward 2 Times Actual Risk |
R2IR |
Reward 2 Times Initial Risk |
R2R |
Reward 2 Times Risk |
RB |
Reversal Bar |
RBs |
Reversal Bars |
RD |
Reversal Day |
RDU |
Reversal Down and Up after first bar so breakout mode |
RHST |
Right shoulder of a Head and Shoulders Top |
RN |
RN Round Number like 2110, 2120 |
RR |
Risk Reward, or Risk Reward Ratio, most easily thought of as the size of your stop compared to the size of your profit target |
RRR |
Risk Reward Ratio |
RS |
Resistance |
RUD |
Reversal Up and Down after first bar so breakout mode |
RV |
Reversal |
RVD |
Reversal Down |
RVDU |
Reversal Down and Up |
RVU |
Reversal Up |
RVUD |
Reversal Up and Down |
S |
Sell or Short, depending on context |
SA |
Sellers Above or probably sellers at the high of the bar scaling in higher |
SABB |
Sellers Above, Buyers Below |
SB |
Sellers Below or probably sellers at the low of the bar |
SBD |
Surprise Bar Down, at least a little more down likely |
SBL |
Scale in Bulls |
SBLB |
Strong Bull Bar (big bull body, close near high) |
SBO2 |
Small breakout of a small breakout |
SBR |
Scale in Bears |
SBRB |
Strong Bear Bar (big bear body, close near low) |
SBs |
Signal Bars |
SBU |
Surprise Bar Up, at least a little more up likely |
SC |
Spike and Channel (bull or bear) |
SCB |
Spike and Channel Bottom (see book) |
SCBL |
Spike and Channel Bull Trend |
SCBR |
Spike and Channel Bear Trend |
SCS |
Swing stop, but scale in, then scalp or swing |
SCT |
Spike and Channel Top (see book) |
SCX |
Spike and climax type of spike and channel |
SD |
Sideways to Down |
Sg |
Selling |
SGP |
Selling Pressure |
SH |
Swing High |
SHs |
Swing Highs |
SL |
Swing Low |
SLs |
Swing Lows |
SMD |
Small Day |
SOBLM |
Stop Order Bulls making Money |
SOBLNM |
Stop Order Bulls Not making Money |
SOBLP |
Stop Order Buy is Low Probability |
SOBRM |
Stop Order Bears making Money |
SOBRNM |
Stop Order Bears Not making Money |
SOLP |
Entering with Stop Orders is Low Probability so only enter if swing trading |
SOSLP |
Stop Order Sell is Low Probability |
SP |
Support |
SPB |
Small Pullback |
SPBL |
Small PullBack Bull trend |
SPBR |
Small PullBack Bear trend |
SPBTD |
Small PullBack Trend Day |
SR |
Support and/or Resistance, depending on context |
Srs |
Sellers |
SS |
Shrinking Stairs |
SS2 |
Better to wait for a strong bear breakout, or more selling pressure and second entry sell |
SSB |
Sell Signal Bar |
SSS |
Swing Stop even if Scalping |
STC |
Sell the Close |
STCBR |
Sell The Close Bears |
STCE |
Sell the Close selloff until the End of day |
STE |
Strong Trader's Equation |
STF |
Shorter Time Frame (a 1 min chart compared to a 5 min) |
STFs |
Shorter Time Frames (a 1 min chart compared to a 5 min) |
SU |
Sideways to Up |
SV |
Sell Vacuum test of support |
SW |
SideWays |
SWD |
SideWays more likely than Down |
SWU |
SideWays more likely than Up |
SX |
Sell Climax |
SXS |
Sell Climaxes |
SZ |
Sell Zone |
T |
Today or Tick (e.g., 5t = 5 tick move) depending on context |
T1 |
1st Trend |
T1B |
Trend from the first bar or so of the day |
T2 |
2nd Trend |
T3 |
3rd Trend |
TB |
Trend Bar |
TBLCH |
Tight Bull Channel |
TBRCH |
Tight Bear Channel |
TBs |
Trend Bars |
TBTL |
approx. Ten Bar, Two-Legged Correction |
TC |
Tight Channel (was Trend Channel) |
TCL |
Trend Channel Line |
TCL R |
Trend Channel Line overshoot and reversal |
TCLs |
Trend Channel Lines |
TD |
Trend Day |
TDDIV |
Tick Double Divergence on one minute chart |
TDIV |
Tick Divergence on one minute chart |
TE |
Traders Equation (chance of success times the reward needs to be greater than chance of loss times the risk) |
TF |
Time Frame |
TFB |
Too Few Bars for major trend reversal so probably minor reversal |
TFs |
Time Frames |
TG |
Target |
TGA |
Target Above |
TGB |
Target Below |
TGS |
Targets |
TGT |
Target |
TGTA |
Target Above |
TGTB |
Target Below |
TGTs |
Targets |
TL |
Trendline |
TLOS |
Trend Tine OverShoot and reversal |
TLs |
Trendlines |
TM |
Tomorrow |
TMBP |
Too Much Buying Pressure |
TMSP |
Too Much Selling Pressure |
TOD |
Time of Day |
TR |
Trading Range |
TRB |
Target above since it was a reasonable Buy |
TRD |
Trading Range Day |
TRDS |
Trading Range Days |
TRE |
Trend Resumption |
TRES |
Trend Resumption |
TREV |
Trend Reversal |
tri |
Possible Triangle (5 or more increasing smaller or larger legs in a sideways pattern) |
TRL |
Trading Range Likely |
TRO |
Trading Range Open so mostly a limit order market |
TRs |
Trading Ranges |
TRSD |
Trend Resumption Down |
TRSU |
Trend Resumption Up |
TRSV |
Trend Resumption or Trend Reversal |
TRTR |
Tight Trading Range, BreakOut will probably lead to either trend resumption or trend reversal |
TRVD |
Trend Reversal Down |
TRVU |
Trend Reversal Up |
TST |
Two-Sided Trading |
TT |
Triple Top |
TTR |
Tight Trading Range |
TTRD |
Trending Trading Range Day |
TTRDS |
Trending Trading Range Days |
TTRL |
Tight Trading Range, limit order market, bulls scaling in below and bears above |
TTRNS |
Tight Trading Range, limit order market, bad for scalping with stop entries unless using swing stop |
TTRTE |
Tight Trading Range Trumps Everything |
TTS |
Too Tight to Scalp, even with limit orders |
TY |
10 Year U.S. Treasury Notes Futures |
UD |
Up and or Down |
UTR |
Upper Trading Range |
vol |
Volume |
VTR |
Vacuum Test of Resistance |
VTS |
Vacuum Test of Support |
W |
Wedge or anything similar, like any 3 push pattern |
W2 |
Wedge2, Wedge 2nd entry or a Failed Failed Wedge |
WB2 |
Wait for breakout or second entry |
WBLF |
Wedge Bull Flag |
WBRF |
Wedge Bear Flag |
WFB |
Okay swing but higher probability if Wait For Breakout |
WFT |
Better to wait for tomorrow |
WGB |
Wedge Bottom |
WGT |
Wedge Top |
Ws |
Wedges or anything similar, like any 3 push patterns |
WSS |
Wide Stop and Scale in, swing or scalp |
WT |
With Trend, in the direction of the trend of the past several bars or even of the entire day |
WTB |
Better to Wait to Buy |
WTE |
Weak Trader's Equation |
WTS |
Better to Wait to Sell |
X |
Climax |
Xs |
Climaxes |
Y |
High, Low, major Swing High or Low from Yesterday |
Y2 |
Yesterday's High or Low 2nd Entry |
Ys |
Y's = Yesterday's |
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