53 Important Trading Acronyms and Abbreviations

Here are 53 trading acronyms and abbreviations to remember and apply to your trading.

I’ve also listed them in alphabetical order to make it easier to spot!

ATH - All Time High
ATM – At the Money
ATR – Average True Range
BB – Bollinger Bands
B/O - Breakout
Be - Bearish
BE - Break even
BOS - Break of Structure
Bu - Bullish
CFD – Contract for Difference
DD – Drawdown
DMA – Direct Market Access
EMA – Exponential Moving Average
E/R - Earnings Report
ETF – Exchange Traded Fund
FA - Fundamental Analysis
FOMC – Federal Open Market Committee
FOK – Fill Or Kill
FX – Foreign Exchange (Forex)
GTC – Good ‘Til Cancelled
HH - Higher High
HL - Higher Low
HOD - High of Day
HFT – High Frequency Trading
HTF - Higher Time Frame
ICO – Initial Coin Offering
IPO – Initial Public Offering
ITM – In the Money
JBTD – Just Buy the Dip
LH - Lower High
LL - Lower Low
LOD - Low of Day
L/S – Long or Short
LTF - Lower Time Frame
MA – Moving Average
MACD – Moving Average Convergence Divergence
MS - Market Structure
OI – Open Interest
O/N - Overnight
OTC – Over the Counter
OTM – Out The Money
NFP - Non Farm Payrolls
P&L – Profit and Loss
PIP – Percentage In Point
PRE - Pre Market
R/R - Risk / Reward
RSI – Relative Strength Index
S/R - Support and Resistance
SL - Stop loss
TA - Technical analysis
TF - Time Frame
TP - Take profit
YTD - Year To Date

Can you think of anymore?

Let me know in the comments.

Trade well, live free.
Timon
(Financial trader since 2003)