Glossary

Many trading terms mean different things to different people.  This list shows the definitions used by Trade-Ideas.

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200 Day Moving Average
52 Week High
52 Week Low

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ADR
AMEX
ATR
Absolute Value
Accumulation
Advance-Decline Line
Advantage Player
Alert
Alerts Server
Alerts Software
Algorithm
Ask
Average Price
Average True Range

—–- B -–—

Back Testing
Basis Points
Bear
Bearish
Best Ask
Best Bid
Bid
Black-Scholes Model
Block Print
Block Trade
Body
Bollinger Bands
Bottoming Tail
Breakdown
Breakout
Bull
Bullish

—–- C -–—

Candle
Candlestick
Channel
Channel Breakdown
Channel Breakout
Churning
Confirmed
Congestion
Consolidation
Consolidation Breakdown
Consolidation Breakout
Continuation
Continuation Pattern
Correlation Coefficient

—–- D -–—

Day Trading
Death Cross
Doji
Dragonfly Doji

—–- E -–—

EMA
ETF
E-Mini
Enveloping
Equities
eSignal
Equi-Volume
Exchange Traded Fund
Expected Ratio
Exponential Moving Average

—–- F -–—

Fat Tails
Fibonacci
Fibonacci Retracement
Frustration
Fundamental Analysis
Futures
Futures Contract

—–- G -–—

Gann Angles
Gap
Golden Cross
Golden Ratio
Gravestone Doji

—–- H -–—

HOLDRS
Hammer
Hedge Fund
How do you keep a trader in suspense?

—–- I -–—

Improve Trading Results
Index
Inside Market
Institution
Institutional Trader
Intraday Trading

—–- K -–—

Kurtosis

—–- L -–—

Least Squares
Leptokurtosis
Listed
Linear Regression
Linear Regression Divergence
Long
Long-Legged Doji
Long Position

—–- M -–—

Mean Reversion Trading
Moving Average

—–- N -–—

NYSE
New York Stock Exchange
Noise

—–- O -–—

On High Volume
On Low Volume
Overbought
Oversold

—–- P -–—

Paint the Tape
Phi
Point and Figure Chart
Pre-Trade Analytics
Prime Broker
Print
Print the Tape

—–- R -–—

R-Squared
Read the Tape
Relative Strength Index
Resistance
RSI

—–- S -–—

SMA
Short
Short Position
Short Term Trading
Simple Moving Average
Single Stock Pre-Trade Analysis
Specific Volume
Spread
Soft Dollar Broker
Standard Deviation
Statistical Analysis
Statistical Analysis of Price Patterns
Stock Scanner
Strategy
Support
Support and Resistance

—–- T -–—

Technical Analysis
Technical Breakdown
Technical Breakout
Technical Levels
Tick Chart
Tick Data
Topping Tail
Tops and Bottoms
Trading Above
Trading Below
Trading Between
Trading Software
Trading Strategy
Trailing Stop

—–- V -–—

VWAP
Volatility
Volume Confirmation
Volume Weighted Volatility

—–- W -–—

Wick

—–- Z -–—

Z-Score