Abbreviations
Another list:
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- https://www.brookstradingcourse.com/brooks-price-action-abbreviations/
縮寫 | 簡述(英文) | 簡述(中文) |
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100M | 100 bar simple moving average, institutions watch 50, 100, 150, and 200 day and week simple moving averages | 100條簡單移動平均線,機構觀察50、100、150和200日和周簡單移動平均線 |
100MA | 100 bar simple moving average, institutions watch 50, 100, 150, and 200 day and week simple moving averages | 100條簡單移動平均線,機構觀察50、100、150和200日和周簡單移動平均線 |
100MD | 100 day simple moving average | 100天簡單移動平均線 |
10M | Middle third of the day from 9:30 or 10 am PST to 11:30 often enters tight trading range | 上午9:30或10點至11:30的中間三分之一時間,經常進入緊張的交易區間 |
13T | 13 Tick Trap. Trader entering with stop order usually needs 14 ticks to make 3 points. Stopping at 13 ticks traps traders just shy of goal. Many will exit, sometimes creating reversal. | 13點陷阱。帶着止損單進入的交易者通常需要14個點來賺取3個點。在13個點位止損會使交易者離目標不遠。許多人將退出,有時會產生反轉。 |
150M | 150 bar simple moving average, institutions watch 50, 100, 150, and 200 day and week simple moving averages | 150條簡單移動平均線,機構觀察50、100、150和200日和周簡單移動平均線 |
150MA | 150 bar simple moving average, institutions watch 50, 100, 150, and 200 day and week simple moving averages | 150條簡單移動平均線,機構觀察50、100、150和200日和周簡單移動平均線 |
150MD | 150 day simple moving average | 150天簡單移動平均線 |
15MA | 15 minute 20 bar moving average plotted on 5 minute chart | 15分鐘20條移動平均線繪製在5分鐘圖上 |
16T | 16 Ticks | |
17T | 17 Tick Trap. Trader entering with stop order usually needs 18 ticks to make 4 points. Stopping at 17 ticks traps traders just shy of goal. Many will exit, sometimes creating reversal. | 17點陷阱。帶止損單入場的交易者通常需要18個點才能賺到4個點。在17個點位止損會使交易者離目標不遠。許多人將退出,有時會產生反轉。 |
18B | 18 Bar range | 18根K線範圍 |
18BD | Breakout Below 18 bar range so 80% chance will not rally to new high of day, and 90% chance of range is big | 突破18條K線區間,所以80%的機會不會反彈到當天的新高,90%的機會是區間大。 |
18BO | Breakout of range of 1st 18 bars | 突破前18條K線的範圍 |
18BOD | Breakout Below 18 bar range so 80% chance will not rally to new high of day, and 90% chance of range is big | 突破18條K線區間,所以80%的機會不會反彈到當天的新高,90%的機會是區間大。 |
18BODF | Failed breakout below the low of the 1st 18 bars, Always In bears should exit, but probably only minor reversal up, only 20% chance of new high of day | 突破前18根柱子的低點失敗,總是在熊市應該退出,但可能只是向上的小反轉,只有20%的機會出現當天的新高。 |
18BOU | BreakOut Above 18 bar range so 80% chance will not fall to new low of day, and 90% chance of range is big | 突破18條區間,所以80%的機會不會跌到當天的新低,90%的機會區間很大。 |
18BOUF | Failed breakout above the high of the 1st 18 bars, Always In Bulls should exit, but probably only minor reversal down, only 20% chance of new low of day | 未能突破前18條的高點,永遠是牛市應該退出,但可能只是小幅反轉下跌,只有20%的機會出現當天的新低。 |
18BU | Breakout Above 18 bar range so 80% chance will not fall to new low of day, and 90% chance of range is big | 突破18條區間,所以80%的機會不會跌到當天的新低,90%的機會區間很大。 |
18T | 18 Ticks | |
1BFF | One Bar Final Flag | 一條K線最終旗形 |
1H | 1 Hour | 1小時 |
1LD | First Leg Down | 第一條腿下來 |
1LU | First Leg Up | 第一條腿站上去 |
1MLD | strong enough bear breakout for at least One More small Leg Down | 足夠強大的熊市突破,至少還有一個小段的下跌。 |
1MLU | strong enough bull breakout for at least One More small Leg Up | 足夠強大的牛市突破,至少還有一個小規模的上升。 |
1P | First Pause or Pullback in a strong trend | 強勢趨勢中的第一次停頓或回撤 |
1T | 1 Tick | |
200M | 200 bar simple moving average, institutions watch 50, 100, 150, and 200 day and week simple moving averages | 200條簡單移動平均線,機構觀察50、100、150和200日和周簡單移動平均線 |
200MA | 200 bar simple moving average, institutions watch 50, 100, 150, and 200 day and week simple moving averages | 200條簡單移動平均線,機構觀察50、100、150和200日和周簡單移動平均線 |
200MD | 200 day simple moving average | 200天簡單移動平均線 |
20GB | Twenty Gap Bars, about 20 consecutive bars that have not touched the moving average | 20個缺口條,大約20個沒有觸及移動平均線的連續條。 |
20GB50BL | No pullback to EMA in 1st 50 bars so expect at least 3 bars will low below EMA by around 11 am PST and then test of high of day | 前50根K線沒有回撤到EMA,所以預計至少有3根柱子會在北京時間上午11點左右低於EMA,然後測試當天的高點。 |
20GB50BR | No pullback to EMA in 1st 50 bars so expect at least 3 bars will high above EMA by around 11 am PST and then test of low of day | 前50根柱子沒有回撤到EMA,所以預計至少有3根柱子會在北京時間上午11點左右高過EMA,然後測試當天的低點。 |
20GBB | 20 Gap Bar Buy setup. After about 20 or more bars above the exponential moving average, bulls will look to buy a pullback to the exponential moving average | 20個缺口條買入設置。在指數移動平均線之上大約20個或更多的柱狀物之後,多頭將尋求買入回撤到指數移動平均線的位置。 |
20GBS | 20 Gap Bar Sell setup. After about 20 or more bars below the exponential moving average bears will look to sell a pullback to the exponential moving average | 20個缺口的賣出設置。在指數移動平均線以下大約20個或更多的條形圖後,熊市將尋求賣出回撤到指數移動平均線的機會。 |
2BR | Two Bar Reversal | 雙K反轉 |
2E | Second Entry | 第二條 |
2EB | Second buy signal or strong Enough bull to breakout to Buy | 第二個買入信號或足夠強大的牛市,可以突破到買入。 |
2ES | Second sell signal or strong Enough bear to breakout to Sell | 第二個賣出信號或足夠強大的熊市,以突破賣出。 |
2H | 2 Hour | 2小時 |
2HM | Two hours from moving average | 距離移動平均線兩小時 |
2LBLTP | Second Leg Bull Trap is big bull breakout that quickly reverses down, trapping bulls who hoped for bull trend, but now either trading range or bear trend reversal | 第二段牛市陷阱是指大牛市突破後迅速反轉下跌,將希望獲得牛市趨勢的多頭困住,但現在要麼是交易範圍,要麼是熊市趨勢反轉。 |
2LBRTP | Second Leg Bear Trap is big bear breakout that quickly reverses up, trapping bears who hoped for bear trend, but now either trading range or bull trend reversal | 第二腿熊市陷阱是指大熊市突破後迅速反轉上升,困住了希望熊市趨勢的熊市,但現在要麼是交易範圍,要麼是牛市趨勢反轉。 |
2LD | Two Legs Down or Second Leg Down | 兩條腿倒下或第二條腿向下 |
2LS | 2nd leg was sideways | 第二條腿是橫向的 |
2LSD | Two Legs Sideways or Down | 兩條腿側向或向下 |
2LSU | Two Legs Sideways or Up | 兩條腿側向或向上 |
2LSW | 2nd leg was sideways | 第二條腿是橫向的 |
2LT | Second Leg Trap so possible failed breakout and reversal | 第二條腿的陷阱,所以可能的突破失敗和反轉 |
2LU | Two Legs Up or Second Leg Up | 兩條腿站起來或第二條腿站起來 |
2S | Second Signal | 第二個信號 |
2SB | Second Signal Buy | 第二個信號買入 |
2SS | Second Signal Sell | 第二賣出信號 |
2T | 2 Ticks | |
3EB | Third Entry Buy | 第三次進入做多 |
3ES | Third Entry Sell | 第三次進場做空 |
3H | 3 Hour | 3小時 |
3LD | Third Leg Down so possible wedge bottom | 第三條腿向下,所以可能是楔形底 |
3LU | Third Leg Up so possible wedge top | 第三條腿了,所以可能是楔形頂 |
3T | 3 Ticks | |
40M | Bars 40 and 41 are middle of day and there is often a reversal or a breakout around 40 or 41 | 第40條和第41條是白天的中間部分,在第40條或第41條附近往往會出現反轉或突破的情況。 |
41M | Bars 40 and 41 are middle of day and there is often a reversal or a breakout around 40 or 41 | 第40條和第41條是白天的中間部分,在第40條或第41條附近往往會出現反轉或突破的情況。 |
41T | 41 Tick Trap. Trader entering with stop order usually needs 42 ticks to make 10 points. Stopping at 41 ticks traps traders just shy of goal. Many will exit, sometimes creating reversal. | 41點陷阱。帶着止損單進入的交易者通常需要42個點來賺取10個點。在41點處止損使交易者離目標不遠。許多人將退出,有時會產生反轉。 |
4D | Four consecutive bear bars and is therefore too strong for a long | 連續四根熊棒,因此對長線來說太強了。 |
4H | 4 Hour | 4小時 |
4T | 4 Ticks | |
4U | Four consecutive bull bars and is therefore too strong for a short | 連續四條牛市,因此對空頭來說太強了。 |
50M | 50 bar simple moving average, institutions watch 50, 100, 150, and 200 day and week simple moving averages | 50條簡單移動平均線,機構觀察50、100、150和200日和周簡單移動平均線 |
50MA | 50 bar simple moving average, institutions watch 50, 100, 150, and 200 day and week simple moving averages | 50條簡單移動平均線,機構觀察50、100、150和200日和周簡單移動平均線 |
50MD | 50 day simple moving average | 50天簡單移動平均線 |
50P | 50% Pullback | 50%的回撤 |
5H | 5 Hour | 5小時 |
5T | 5 Tick Trap. Trader entering with stop order usually needs 6 ticks to make 1 point. Stopping at 5 ticks traps traders just shy of goal. Many will exit, sometimes creating reversal. | |
60M | 60 minute bar or chart | 60分鐘條形圖或圖表 |
60MA | 60 minute 20 bar Exponential Moving Average | 60分鐘20條指數移動平均線 |
60MC | 60 Minute Chart | 60分鐘圖 |
6H | 6 Hour | |
6T | 6 Ticks | |
99BL | 99.5% chance of at least 3 bars with low at least 1 tick below Moving Average at some point today, and then usually soon afterwards get buy signal and new high of day | 今天有99.5%的機會出現至少3根柱子,其低點至少比移動平均線低1個點,然後通常很快得到買入信號和當天的新高。 |
99BR | 99.5% chance of at least 3 bars with high at least 1 tick above Moving Average at some point today, and then usually soon afterwards get sell signal and new low of day | 今天有99.5%的機會至少有3個柱子的高點至少高於移動平均線1個點,然後通常很快就會得到賣出信號和當天的新低。 |
9T | 9 Tick Trap. Trader entering with stop order usually needs 10 ticks to make 2 points. Stopping at 9 ticks traps traders just shy of goal. Many will exit, sometimes creating reversal. | 9點陷阱。帶着止損單進入的交易者通常需要10個點來賺取2個點。在9個點上止損會使交易者離目標不遠。許多人將退出,有時會產生反轉。 |
? | Possible | 可能的 |
A1D | At least One more small leg Down | 至少還有一條小腿下來 |
A1U | At least One more small leg Up | 至少還有一條小腿上去 |
A2 | A two legged PullBack to the Exponential Moving Average in a trend | 趨勢中對指數移動平均線的兩腳拉回 |
A22 | A second entry in a two legged Pullback to the Exponential Moving Average in a trend | 趨勢中兩腳回撤至指數移動平均線的第二次進場 |
AI | Always In | 始終在場 |
AIA | Always In Aggressive trader, takes every reversal, about 10 per day | 始終在積極的交易者,採取每一個反轉,每天大約10個。 |
AIBL | Always In long Bulls | 總是在長牛市 |
AIBLB | Always In Bulls Buy again above bull bar closing near its high | 始終在牛市中,在牛市收盤時在其高點附近再次買入。 |
AIBLBA | Always In Bulls Buy again above bull bar closing near its high | 始終在牛市中,在牛市收盤時在其高點附近再次買入。 |
AIBLE | Always In Bulls can Exit below bear bar closing below its midpoint, if they are concerned about risk, and buy again above bull bar | 如果擔心風險,牛市可以在熊市中點以下收盤時退出,並在牛市上方再次買入。 |
AIBLE4 | Always In Bulls can Exit about 4 ticks or half of an average bar range below bar with small bull or bear body if concerned about risk. Can always buy again above next bull bar closing near its high. | 如果擔心風險,可以在牛市中退出約4個點或平均條形區間的一半,在小牛市或熊市的條形下方退出。可以隨時在下一個牛市收盤時在其高點附近再次買入。 |
AIBR | Always In short Bears | 始終在 |
AIBRE | Always In Bears can Exit above bull bar closing above its midpoint, if they are concerned about risk, and sell again below bear bar | 總是在熊市中,如果他們擔心風險,可以在牛市收盤時在其中點以上退出,並在熊市收盤時再次賣出。 |
AIBRE4 | Always In Bears can Exit about 4 ticks or half of an average bar range above bar with small bear or bull body if concerned about risk. Can always sell again below next bear bar closing near its low. | 在熊市中,如果擔心風險,可以在小熊或小牛體的柱子上方退出大約4個點或平均柱狀範圍的一半。可以隨時在下一個熊市條形收盤時在其低點附近再次賣出。 |
AIBRS | Always In Bears Sell again below bear bar closing near its low | 始終在熊市中,在熊市條形收盤時,在其低點附近再次賣出。 |
AIBRSA | Always In Bears Sell again below bear bar closing near its low | 始終在熊市中,在熊市條形收盤時,在其低點附近再次賣出。 |
AIC | Always In Conservative trader, only takes the strongest reversals, about 2-5 per day | 始終是保守的交易者,只接受最強的反轉,每天大約2-5次。 |
AIL | Always In Long | 始終在長 |
AIS | Always In Short | |
AMPST | am Pacific Standard Time | 太平洋標準時間上午 |
APSBL | Average entry Price for Scale in BuLls | |
APSBR | Average entry Price for Scale in BeaRs | |
AR | Actual Risk | 實際風險 |
ASPT | At Some Point Today | 在今天的某個時刻 |
ATH | All Time High | 歷史新高 |
ATM | At the Money option strike price | 貨幣期權執行價格 |
ATRI | Apex of Triangle or trading range so Breakout Mode | 三角形或交易區間的頂點,所以是突破模式 |
B | Buy or Long, depending on context | 買入或做多,視情況而定 |
B18 | Often get Breakout or reversal between bars 16 to 18 | 常常在第16至18條之間獲得突破或反轉。 |
B2 | Better to wait for a 2nd buy signal or for a strong bull breakout, which means 2 or 3 bull bars closing near their highs; or, need wide stop and better if can scale in. | 最好是等待第二個買入信號,或者等待強勁的牛市突破,這意味着有2到3個牛市柱子在高點附近收盤;或者,需要寬泛的止損,如果能擴大規模則更好。 |
BA | Buy Above or probably buyers at the high of the bar | 買入高於或可能是買方在高位的k線 |
BAG | Breakaway Gap, the first gap of any kind after a trend reversal, only certain in hindsight | 突破缺口,趨勢逆轉後的第一個缺口,只有在事後才能確定。 |
BB | Buy Below, or probably buyers at the low of the bar and scaling in lower | 在下面買入,或者可能是在條形圖的低點買入,並在更低的位置擴大規模。 |
BB2 | Better to wait for a 2nd buy signal or for a strong bull breakout, which means 2 or 3 bull bars closing near their highs; or, need wide stop and better if can scale in. | 最好是等待第二個買入信號,或者等待強勁的牛市突破,這意味着有2到3個牛市柱子在高點附近收盤;或者,需要寬泛的止損,如果能擴大規模則更好。 |
BBBL | Better to Buy above Bull bar closing near its high | 最好在牛市收盤時在其高點附近買入 |
BBBR | Big Bar or Bars so Big Risk. If you take the trade, trade small enough position size so that the risk of the trade is no bigger than on any other trade. Emini traders can trade micro Emini | 大棒或小棒所以風險大。如果你進行交易,交易的倉位規模要足夠小,這樣交易的風險就不會比其他交易的風險大。Emini交易者可以交易微型Emini |
BBE | Breakeven, which means exiting around entry price with small profit or loss | 盈虧平衡,這意味着以小的利潤或損失在入市價附近出場 |
BBL | Big Bull bar | 大陽線 |
BBLB | Big Bull Bar | 大陽線 |
BBLB20 | Biggest Bull bar or bars in over 20 bars so possible bull exhaustion gap. 60% chance of either end of rally or one more brief leg up and then end of rally. | 在超過20個柱子中,最大的牛市柱子或柱子,所以可能是牛市的衰竭缺口。60%的機會是反彈結束,或者再來一次短暫的上漲,然後結束反彈。 |
BBLBC | Big Bull Bar Closing near its high | 大陽線在高點附近收盤 |
BBLBIR | Big Bull Bar so Increased Risk | |
BBLBL | Biggest Bull bar or bars Late in bull trend so possible exhaustion gap. 60% chance this is end of buy climax, but 60% chance one more brief leg up before 2 legs down. Many bulls will take profits and some bears will sell the close for a scalp. | 在牛市趨勢中,最大的一個或多個牛欄是在牛市趨勢的後期,所以可能會出現衰竭缺口。60%的機會是買入高潮的結束,但60%的機會是在兩次下跌之前還有一次短暫的上漲。許多牛市會獲利,一些熊市會在收盤時賣出以換取頭皮。 |
BBLC | Big Bull Bar Closing near its high | |
BBLCH | Broad Bull Channel | |
BBLL | Biggest Bull bar or bars Late in bull trend so possible exhaustion gap. 60% chance this is end of buy climax, but 60% chance one more brief leg up before 2 legs down. Many bulls will take profits and some bears sell the close for a scalp. | 在牛市趨勢中,最大的一個或多個牛欄是在牛市趨勢的後期,所以可能會出現衰竭缺口。60%的機會是買入高潮的結束,但60%的機會是在兩次下跌之前還有一次短暫的上漲。許多牛市會獲利,一些熊市會在收盤時賣出以換取頭皮。 |
BBLMC | Bar Bull Micro Channel | 槓槓牛微通道 |
BBLO | Better to Buy with Limit Orders below bars than stop orders above | 在條形圖下方用限價單買入比在上方用止損單買入更好。 |
BBLPT | Bigger bull bar after about 4 Buy the Close bars will attract profit taking soon, so better to buy pullback instead of buying the close, else need wide stop | 約4個買入收盤條後的大牛市很快就會吸引獲利了結,所以最好買入回撤而不是買入收盤,否則需要寬幅止損。 |
BBLT | Big Bull bar so big risk, top of Tight trading range so lower probability and possibly sellers above | 大牛市,所以風險大,緊張交易區間的頂部,所以概率低,上面可能有賣家。 |
BBP | Better to Buy PullBack than to buy at the high since not strong bull trend | 買入回撤比在高位買入更好,因為沒有強勁的牛市趨勢 |
BBPB | Better to Buy PullBack than to buy at the high since not strong bull trend | 買入回撤比在高位買入更好,因為沒有強勁的牛市趨勢 |
BBR | Big Bear bar | 大陰線 |
BBRB | Big Bear Bar | 大陰線 |
BBRB20 | Biggest Bear bar or bars in over 20 bars so possible bear exhaustion gap. 60% chance of either end of selloff or one more brief leg down and then end of selloff. | 在超過20個小節中,最大的熊市小節或小節,所以可能是熊市的衰竭缺口。60%的可能性是下跌結束,或者再來一次短暫的下跌,然後結束下跌。 |
BBRBC | Big Bear Bar Closing near its low | 大陰線在其低點附近收盤 |
BBRBIR | Big Bear Bar so increased risk | |
BBRBL | Biggest Bear bar or bars Late in bear trend so possible exhaustion gap. 60% chance this is end of sell climax, but 60% chance one more brief leg down before 2 legs up. Many bears will take profits and some bulls will buy the close for a scalp. | 最大的熊棒或熊棒 在熊市趨勢中的後期,所以可能出現疲憊的缺口。60%的機會是賣出高潮的結束,但60%的機會是在兩次上漲之前再有一個短暫的下跌。許多熊市將獲利了結,一些牛市將在收盤時買入以剝頭皮。 |
BBRC | Big Bear Bar Closing near its low | 大陰線在其低點附近收盤 |
BBRCH | Broad Bear Channel | 寬幅下降通道 |
BBRL | Biggest Bear bar or bars Late in bear trend so possible exhaustion gap. 60% chance this is end of sell climax, but 60% chance one more brief leg down before 2 legs up. Many bears will take profits and some bulls buy the close for a scalp. | 最大的熊棒或熊棒 在熊市趨勢中的後期,所以可能出現疲憊的缺口。60%的可能性是賣出高潮的結束,但60%的可能性是在兩次上漲之前還有一次短暫的下跌。許多熊市會獲利了結,一些牛市會在收盤時買入以剝頭皮。 |
BBRMC | Bar Bear Micro Channel | 陰線微通道 |
BBRPT | Bigger bear bar after about 4 Sell the Close bars will attract profit taking soon so better to sell pullback instead of selling the close, else need wide stop | 在大約4個賣出收盤條之後的大熊棒將很快吸引獲利,所以最好賣出回撤而不是賣出收盤,否則需要寬幅止損。 |
BBRT | Big Bear bar so big risk, bottom of Tight trading range so lower probability and possibly buyers below | 大熊棒,所以風險大,緊縮交易區間的底部,所以概率低,可能是下面的買家。 |
BBS | Bulls will scale in lower, bears will scale in higher | 牛市將以較低的規模出現,熊市將以較高的規模出現。 |
BBSA | Buyers Below, Sellers Above | 買家在下面,賣家在上面 |
BBSB | Bad Buy Signal Bar, so some bears scale in higher, expecting pullback to below high of bar, which is magnet | 糟糕的買入信號條,因此一些熊市的規模較高,預計將回撤到條形高點以下,這是磁鐵。 |
BC | Broad Channel | 寬廣的通道 |
BD | Bars Down | 下降K線 |
BDBU | Big Down, Big Up | 大跌,大漲 |
BDBUC | Big Down, Big Up, big Confusion so trading range likely | 大跌,大漲,大混亂,所以交易區間可能會出現。 |
BDBUTR | Big down + big up = big confusion = TradingRange likely | 大跌+大漲=大混亂=交易範圍可能 |
BDG | Body Gap, less reliable than true gap but still reasonable Measuring Gap | 身體間隙,不如真實間隙可靠,但仍然合理 測量間隙 |
BDGD | Body Gap Down, Gap above highest body of this pullback and lowest body of the breakout point | 主體缺口向下,缺口高於本次回調的最高主體和突破點的最低主體 |
BDGDC | The body of this reversal up bar overlaps the body of the lowest body of the breakout point. The body gap down is now closed. The bear trend has probably ended and the chart is now either in a trading range or a bull trend. | 這個反轉上升柱的主體與突破點的最低主體重合。跌落的主體缺口現在已經關閉。熊市趨勢可能已經結束,圖表現在要麼處於交易範圍,要麼處於牛市趨勢。 |
BDGU | Body Gap Up, Gap below lowest body of this pullback and highest body of the breakout point | 主體缺口向上,缺口低於本次回調的最低主體和突破點的最高主體 |
BDGUC | The body of this reversal down bar overlaps the body of the highest body of the breakout point. The body gap up is now closed. The bull trend has probably ended and the chart is now either in a trading range or a bear trend. | |
BDUC | Big Down, big Up, big Confusion so trading range likely | |
BDUDC | Big Down, big Up, big Confusion so trading range likely | |
BE | Breakeven, which means exiting around entry price with small profit or loss | |
BELO | Better to Enter with Limit Order | |
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 | |
BGD | Big Gap Down so 80% chance of at least one reversal in first hour. The bears want a double top or wedge top on a pullback to near the EMA. The bulls want a double bottom or wedge bottom for an early low of the day. | |
BGDC | Body Gap Down Closed, which means the close of the bar was above the close of the lowest body in the breakout point, reducing the chance of lower prices | |
BGP | Buying Pressure | |
BGU | Big Gap Up so 80% chance of at least one reversal in the first hour. The bulls want a double bottom or wedge bottom on a pullback to near the EMA. The bears want a double top or wedge top for an early high of the day. | |
BGUC | Body Gap Up Closed, which means the close of the bar was below the close of the highest body in the breakout point, reducing the chance of higher prices | |
BKE | Breakeven, which means exiting around entry price with small profit or loss | |
BL | Bull or Bulls | |
BLB | Bull Body | |
BLBC | Bull Bar Closing near its high | |
BLBCH | Bull Bar Closing near its High | |
BLBO | Bull Breakout | |
BLBOM | Bull breakout but probably minor, which means probably a scalp lasting 1 - 5 bars | |
BLBS | Bull Bars | |
BLCH | Bull Channel | |
BLD | Bull Doji | |
BLE | Bulls Exit below | |
BLF | Bull Flag | |
BLMC | Bull Micro Channel, every low at or above low of prior bar | |
BLO | In tight trading range or tight channel, Better to enter with Limit Orders | |
BLR | Bull Reversal | |
BLRB | Bull Reversal Bar | |
BLRVD | Bull Reversal Day, which is a day that sold off and then reversed up and closed near its high | |
BLSC | Bull Scalpers | |
BLSH | Buy Low Sell High | |
BLSHS | Buy Low, Sell High, and Scalp | |
BLT | Bull Trend | |
BLTD | Bull Trend Day | |
BLTP | Bull Trap, failed bull breakout | |
BLTR | probably Bull leg in Trading Range and not in bull trend | |
BO | Breakout | |
BOF | strong Break Out with good Follow-through | |
BOM | Breakout Mode means trading range. About 50% chance successful breakout up or down, and then about a measured move based on the height of trading range. 50% chance 1st breakout up or down will reverse. | |
BOP | Break Out Point, which is the price that the current breakout broke beyond | |
BOPBL | Breakout Point for the current rally. The current rally had a bull breakout. That means it broke above a prior high, which is the breakout point. It often gets tested and is therefore a magnet below | |
BOPBR | Breakout Point for the current selloff. The current selloff had a bear breakout. That means it broke below a prior low, which is the breakout point. It often gets tested and is therefore a magnet above | |
BOT | BreakOut Test, which is a pullback testing the breakout point, and traders are deciding if the breakout will succeed or fail | |
BOUD | Breakout Up or Down | |
BP | Breakout Pullback | |
BPS | Breakout Pullbacks | |
BR | Bear or Bears | |
BRA | Probably buyers above | |
BRB | Bear Body | |
BRBC | Bear Bar Closing near its low | |
BRBCL | Bear Bar Closing near its Low | |
BRBO | Bear Breakout | |
BRBOM | Bear breakout but probably minor, which means probably a scalp lasting 1 - 5 bars | |
BRBS | Bear Bars | |
BRCH | Bear Channel | 下降通道 |
BRD | Bear Doji | |
BRE | Bears Exit above | |
BRF | Bear Flag | |
BRMC | Bear Micro Channel, every high at or below high of prior bar | |
BRN | Big Round Number like 2100, 2200 | |
BRR | Bear Reversal | |
BRRB | Bear Reversal Bar | |
BRRVD | Bear Reversal Day, which is a day that rallied, but sold off and closed bear its low | |
BRS | Buyers | |
BRSC | Bear Scalpers | |
BRT | Bear Trend | |
BRTD | Bear Trend Day | |
BRTP | Bear Trap, failed bear breakout | |
BRTR | probably Bear leg in Trading Range and not in bear trend | |
BRVD | Big Reversal Down so at least small 2nd leg down likely | |
BRVU | Big Reversal UP so at least small 2nd leg up likely | |
BSB | Buy Signal Bar | |
BSBD | Buy Signal Bar on Daily chart | |
BSBM | Buy Signal Bar on Monthly chart | |
BSBR | Better to Sell below Bear bar closing near its low | |
BSBW | Buy Signal Bar on Weekly chart | |
BSLO | Better to Sell with Limit Orders above bars than stop orders below | |
BSP | Better to Sell PullBack, which means a bounce, than to sell at the low since not strong bear trend | |
BSPB | Better to Sell PullBack, which means a bounce, than to sell at the low since not strong bear trend | |
BSSB | Bad Sell Signal Bar, so some bulls scale in lower, expecting pullback to above low of bar, which is magnet | |
BT | Breakout Test or Bought, depending on context | |
BTC | Buy The Close bull trend so traders will buy the close of bull bar closing near its high or buy above bull bar that closes near its high | |
BTCBL | Buy The Close Bulls | |
BTCE | Buy the Close rally until the End of day | |
BTH | Buy The High bull trend is a series of bull bars closing near their highs, and bulls will buy with a stop 1 tick above the high of the prior bar, and exit below a bear bar closing below its midpoint or 1 - 2 points below any bar | |
BTs | Breakout Tests | |
BTTR | Bar Tight Trading Range | |
BTW | Better To Wait for better combination of probability, risk, and reward | |
BU | Bars Up | |
BUBD | Big Up, Big Down | |
BUBDC | Big Up, Big Down, big Confusion so trading range likely | |
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 | |
BVT | Buy Vacuum test of resistance | |
BW | Barb Wire | |
BWB | Better to Wait for a Breakout | |
BWBLB | Bars without Bull bodies | |
BWBOUD | Better to wait for a breakout up or down | |
BWBRB | Bars without Bear bodies | |
BWH | Better wait or hold[1] | |
BWSS | Only B if using a Wide Stop, and better if can scale in lower | |
BWT | Better Wait for Tomorrow | |
BX | Buy Climax, one or more big bull bars closing near their highs | |
BXH | Buy Climax High, high of buy climax bar or bars | |
BXL | Buy Climax Low, Low of buy climax bar or bars | |
BXS | Buy Climaxes | |
BZ | Buy Zone, an area where traders will look to buy | |
C | Close | |
CAM | Close Above Midpoint of the bar | |
CAMP | Close Above Midpoint of the bar | |
CBM | Close Below Midpoint of the bar | |
CBMP | Close Below Midpoint of the bar | |
CBX | Consecutive Buy Climax | |
CBXS | Consecutive Buy Climaxes | |
CC | consecutive | |
CCB | Consecutive Bottoms | |
CCBBLB | Consecutive Big Bull Bars so higher probability for bears to wait for 2nd sell signal | |
CCBBLBC | Consecutive Big Bull Bars Closing near their highs makes at least a small 2nd leg up likely | |
CCBBLC | Consecutive Big Bull Bars Closing near their highs makes at least a small 2nd leg up likely | |
CCBBRB | Consecutive Big Bear Bars so higher probability for bulls to wait for 2nd buy signal | |
CCBBRBC | Consecutive Big Bear Bars Closing near their lows makes at least a small 2nd leg down likely | |
CCBBRC | Consecutive Big Bear Bars Closing near their lows makes at least a small 2nd leg down likely | |
CCBL | Consecutive Bull Bars | |
CCBL1C | Consecutive Bull bars with one closing near its high and with a big bull body so probably always in long | |
CCBLB | Consecutive Bull Bars | |
CCBLB1C | Consecutive Bull bars with one closing near its high and with a big bull body so probably always in long | |
CCBLBC | Consecutive Bull Bars Closing near their highs makes at least a small 2nd leg up likely | |
CCBLBCM | Consecutive bull bars closing above EMA and closing near their highs so probably will go higher and possible Buy The Close | |
CCBLC | Consecutive Bull Bars Closing near their highs makes at least a small 2nd leg up likely | |
CCBR | Consecutive Bear Bars | |
CCBR1C | Consecutive Bear bars with one closing near its low and with a big bear body so probably always in short | |
CCBRB | Consecutive Bear Bars | |
CCBRB1C | Consecutive Bear bars with one closing near its low and with a big bear body so probably always in short | |
CCBRBC | Consecutive Bear Bars Closing near their lows makes at least a small 2nd leg down likely | |
CCBRC | Consecutive Bear Bars Closing near their lows makes at least a small 2nd leg down likely | |
CCCB | Consecutive Complex Bottoms, which is a pair of bottoms where both have 2 or 3 legs down | |
CCCT | Consecutive Complex Tops, which is a pair of tops where both have 2 or 3 legs up | |
CCT | Consecutive Tops | |
CD | Closed | |
CH | Channel | |
CHB | Cup and Handle Bull Flag, which is a pullback after bull reversal | |
CHD | Cup and Handle Bear Flag, which is a pullback after bear reversal | |
CHS | Cup and Handle Bear Flag, which is a pullback after bear reversal | |
CHU | Cup and Handle Bull Flag, which is a pullback after bull reversal | |
CLM | Close of Last Month | |
CLW | Close of Last Week | |
CLY | Close of Last Year | |
CM | Close of Month | |
CMB | Confusion comes from there being both a reasonable reason to buy and to sell. Traders need more information, which means more bars so at least small trading range. Better to wait for 2nd signal up or down or for strong breakout. | |
CNH | Close Near High of bar | |
CNL | Close Near Low of bar | |
COD | Close of Day | |
COH | Close On or near High of bar | |
COL | Close On or near Low of bar | |
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 | |
CUPD | Cup and Handle Bear Flag, which is a pullback after bear reversal | |
CUPH | Cup and Handle is a reversal and then a pullback | |
CUPHD | Cup and Handle Bear Flag, which is a pullback after bear reversal | |
CUPHU | Cup and Handle Bull Flag, which is a pullback after bull reversal | |
CUPU | Cup and Handle Bull Flag, which is a pullback after bull reversal | |
CW | Close of Week | |
CY | Close of Yesterday | |
DB | Double Bottom, or two consecutive bars with identical lows | |
DBBF | Double Bottom Bull Flag, so when bull buy signal bar, there is a 40% chance of a breakout above the recent swing high, which is the neck line of the DB, and a measured move up | |
DBBLF | Double Bottom Bull Flag, so when bull buy signal bar, there is a 40% chance of a breakout above the recent swing high, which is the neck line of the DB, and a measured move up | |
DBHL | Double Bottom Higher Low is a double bottom where the 2nd low is higher | |
DBL | Disappointed Bulls, bulls who bought recent strong bull bar are disappointed and might sell out of their longs around the close of that bull bar, which could create micro double top and start reversal down | |
DBLE | Bulls who bought are disappointed by bear body and might exit below | |
DBLL | Double Bottom Lower Low is a double bottom where the 2nd low is lower | |
DBMTR | Double Bottom Major Trend Reversal | |
DBPB | Double Bottom Pullback means there is a pullback from a reversal up from a double bottom and bulls will buy above the pullback bar, especially if it closes near its high | |
DBR | Disappointed Bears, bears who sold recent strong bear bar are disappointed and might buy back their shorts around the close of that bear bar, which could create micro double bottom and start reversal up | |
DBRE | Bears who sold are disappointed by bull body and might exit above | |
DBS | Double Bottoms, or two consecutive bars with identical lows | |
DBTC | Disappointed Buy The Close Bulls | |
DBTCBE | Disappointed Buy The Close Bulls might sell their longs around the highest close to exit around breakeven | |
DBTCBL | Disappointed Buy The Close Bulls | |
DBTCBLBE | Disappointed Buy The Close Bulls might sell their longs around the highest close to exit around breakeven | |
DBTCBLE | Disappointed Buy The Close Bulls might sell their longs around the highest close to exit around breakeven | |
DD | Doji, which is a bar with a small body and a close near the open | |
DDD | Doji Day, which is a bar on the daily chart with a small body and a close near the open | |
DDIV | Double Divergence | |
DDM | Doji Month, which is a bar on the monthly chart with a small body and a close near the open | |
DDW | Doji Week, which is a bar on the weekly chart with a small body and a close near the open | |
DFD | Dominant Feature Down is exceptionally strong selloff. It will usually prevent a bull trend, even if there is a new high. It increases the chance of sideways to down for the rest of the day. | |
DFT | Disappointing Follow-through so possible Trading range | |
DFU | Dominant Feature Up is exceptionally strong rally. It will usually prevent a bear trend, even if there is a new low. It increases the chance of sideways to up for the rest of the day. | |
DIV | Divergence | |
DL | Dueling Lines | |
DP | Double Top Pullback or Double Bottom Pull Back | |
DPS | Double Top Pull Backs or Double Bottom Pull Backs | |
DSTC | Disappointed Sell The Close Bears | |
DSTCBE | Disappointed Sell The Close Bears might buy back their shorts around the lowest close to exit around breakeven | |
DSTCBR | Disappointed Sell The Close Bears | |
DSTCBRBE | Disappointed Sell The Close Bears might buy back their shorts around the lowest close to exit around breakeven | |
DSTCBRE | Disappointed Sell The Close Bears might buy back their shorts around the lowest close to exit around breakeven | |
DT | Double Top, or two consecutive bars with identical highs | |
DTBF | Double Top Bear Flag, so when bear sell signal bar, there is a 40% chance of a breakout below the recent swing low, which is the neck line of the double top, and a measured move down. | |
DTBRF | Double Top Bear Flag, so when bear sell signal bar, there is a 40% chance of a breakout below the recent swing low, which is the neck line of the double top, and a measured move down. | |
DTHH | Double Top Higher High is a double top where the 2nd top is higher | |
DTLH | Double Top Lower High is a double top where the 2nd top is lower | |
DTMTR | Double Top Major Trend Reversal | |
DTPB | Double Top Pullback means there is a reversal down from a double top and the bears will sell below the pullback bar, especially if it closes near its low | |
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 | 20 bar Exponential Moving Average | |
EOD | End of Day | |
EOM | End of Month | |
EOW | End of Week | |
EOY | End Of Year | |
EP | Endless Pullback | |
EPB | Endless PullBack | |
EPBD | Endless Pullback in a bull trend is a tight bear channel that never looks very bearish but can continue for hours | |
EPBU | Endless Pullback in a bear trend is a tight bull channel that never looks very bullish but can continue for hours | |
EPD | Endless Pullback in a bull trend is a tight bear channel that never looks very bearish but can continue for hours | |
EPTG | End of day Profit Taking so possible reversal | |
EPU | Endless Pullback in a bear trend is a tight bull channel that never looks very bullish but can continue for hours | |
ES | Emini | |
ESP | especially | |
ESTC | End of day Sell the Close bear trend | |
ET | Expanding Triangle | |
ETS | Expanding Triangles | |
F | Fail, Failure, Failed | |
FBLF | Final Bull Flag is a trading range or triangle late is a bull trend, and a bull breakout has an increased chance of reversing back down into the trading range, or of starting a bear trend. | |
FBO | Failed BreakOut | |
FBRF | Final Bear Flag is a trading range or triangle late is a bear trend, and a bear breakout has an increased chance of reversing back up into the trading range, or of starting a bull trend. | |
FD | Failed | |
FF | Final Flag, usually a horizontal pattern after a trend. The breakout often fails and reverses | |
FFS | Final Flags | |
FG | Failing | |
FOMC | Federal Open Market Committee meeting and announcement | |
FOMCD | There is an FOMC announcement at 11 am PST today. Day traders should exit positions before the report and wait until at least 10 minutes after the report before trading again to allow for a trend to begin. | |
FRD | For Rest of the Day | |
FS | Fails or Failures | |
FT | Follow Through | |
FTCL | Failed Trend Channel Line | |
FTD | Follow-Through Down, not bull bar, so lower prices likely | |
FTU | Follow-Through Up, not bear bar, so higher prices likely | |
FWSR | Today is Friday so weekly support and resistance can be important, especially in the final hour | |
G | Gap | |
G2 | A second entry on a gap setup | |
GB | Gap Bar | |
GBS | Gap Bars | |
GD | Gap Down | |
GS | Gaps | |
GT | Gap Test | |
GU | Gap Up | |
GUB | Give Up Bar, breakout that often leads to a swing | |
GUD | Give Up Bar Down so bulls giving up | |
GUU | Give Up Bar Up so bears giving up | |
GX | Globex Session | |
GXH | Globex High | |
GXL | Globex Low | |
GXR | Globex Range | |
H | High or High of Day | |
H1 | One legged pullback in a bull move | |
H2 | Two legged pullback in a bull move, but it can also be a 2nd reversal up from a selloff (variation of a double bottom) | |
H3 | Three legged pullback in a bull move, which usually means a wedge bull flag or a wedge bottom | |
H4 | High 4 bottom or bull flag, 4 legged bear channel, often consecutive High 2 pullbacks | |
HB2 | Higher Probability to Wait for 2nd Buy signal or a strong bull breakout, like a couple consecutive big bull bars closing near their highs, else need wide stop and better if can scale in lower | |
HC | Highest Close of the day or of swing up | |
HCMA | Highest close is magnet above since Buy The Close bulls who bought that close could not avoid a loss and expect test of highest close | |
HD | High of Day | |
HH | Higher High | |
HHDT | Higher High Double Top is a double top where the 2nd high is higher | |
HHMTR | Higher High Major Trend Reversal | |
HHS | Higher Highs | |
HL | Higher Low | |
HLDB | Higher Low Double Bottom is a double bottom where the 2nd low is higher | |
HLH | High of the last 60 minute bar | |
HLM | High of Last Month | |
HLMTR | Higher Low Major Trend Reversal | |
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 or a 2nd buy or sell signal | |
HPW2B | Higher Probability to Wait for 2nd Buy signal or a strong bull breakout, like a couple consecutive big bull bars closing near their highs | |
HPW2S | Higher Probability to Wait for 2nd Sell signal or a strong bear breakout, like a couple consecutive big bear bars closing near their lows | |
HPWB2 | Higher Probability to Wait for 2nd Buy signal or a strong bull breakout, like a couple consecutive big bull bars closing near their highs | |
HPWBB2 | Higher Probability to Wait for 2nd Buy signal or a strong bull breakout, like a couple consecutive big bull bars closing near their highs | |
HPWBH2 | Higher Probability to Wait to Buy High 2 or High 3 Pullback since at least small 2nd leg sideways to down likely | |
HPWBL | Higher Probability to Wait to buy above Bull bar closing near its high | |
HPWBPB | Higher Probability to Wait to Buy pullback than to continue to buy closes | |
HPWBR | Higher Probability to Wait to sell below Bear bar closing near its low | |
HPWF | Higher Probability to Wait for a breakout and Follow-through | |
HPWFT | Higher Probability to Wait for a breakout and Follow-through | |
HPWS2 | Higher Probability to Wait for 2nd Sell signal or a strong bear breakout, like a couple consecutive big bear bars closing near their lows | |
HPWSL2 | Higher Probability to Wait to Sell Low 2 or Low 3 since at least small 2nd leg sideways to up likely | |
HPWSPB | Higher Probability to Wait to Sell pullback (bounce) than to continue to sell closes | |
HPWSS | Higher Probability if you can use a Wide Stop and Scale in, whether you swing or scalp | |
HPWSS2 | Higher Probability to Wait for 2nd Sell signal or a strong bear breakout, like a couple consecutive big bear bars closing near their lows | |
HR | Higher | |
HRP | Higher Probability | |
HRTR | Higher trading range in Trending Trading Range Day | |
HS | Highs | |
HS2 | Higher Probability to Wait for 2nd Sell signal or a strong bear breakout, like a couple consecutive big bear bars closing near their lows, else need wide stop and better if can scale in higher | |
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, for example, a 60 min chart compared to a 5 min | |
HTFS | Higher Time Frames, for example, a 60 min chart compared to a 5 min | |
HW | High of Week | |
HWPFT | Higher Probability to Wait for a breakout and Follow-through | |
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, Breakout Mode, so both buy and sell signal | |
iii | Three inside bars in a row, Breakout Mode, so both buy and sell signal | |
ioi | Outside bar surrounded by Inside bars | |
IOII | Consecutive inside bars after an outside bar, Breakout Mode setup so both buy and sell signal bar | |
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, but it can also be a 2nd reversal down from a rally (variation of a double top) | |
L3 | Three legged PullBack in a bear move, which usually means a wedge bear flag or a wedge top | |
L4 | Low 4 top or bear flag, 4 legged bull channel, often consecutive Low 2 pullbacks | |
LBL | Limit order Bull scalpers | |
LBLB | Limit order Bulls will buy Below and scale in lower | |
LBLBB | Limit order Bulls will buy Below and scale in lower | |
LBLM | Limit order Bull scalpers have been making Money | |
LBLNM | Limit order Bull scalpers have Not been making Money | |
LBR | Limit order Bear scalpers | |
LBRA | Limit order Bears will sell Above and scale in higher | |
LBRM | Limit order Bear scalpers have been making Money | |
LBRNM | Limit order Bear scalpers have Not been making Money | |
LBRSA | Limit order Bears will sell Above and scale in higher | |
LC | Lowest Close of the day or of swing down | |
LCMB | Highest close is magnet above since Sell The Close bears who sold that close could not avoid a loss and expect test of lowest close | |
LD | Low of Day | |
LDL | Low of Limit Down move | |
LDM | Today is the last day of the month. Therefore monthly support or resistance can be a magnet, especially in the last hour | |
LDW | Today is the last day of the week. Therefore weekly support or resistance can be a magnet, especially in the last hour | |
LDY | Today is the last day of the year. Therefore yearly support or resistance can be a magnet, especially in the last hour | |
LGB | Ledge Bottom is 4 or more bars in tight trading range with the same low. 80% chance of breakout below and 80% chance of pullback above bottom of ledge. | |
LGT | Ledge Top is 4 or more bars in tight trading range with the same high. 80% chance of breakout above and 80% chance of pullback below top. | |
LH | Lower High | |
LHDT | Lower High Double Top is a double top where the 2nd top is lower | |
LHMTR | Lower High Major Trend Reversal | |
LHS | Lower Highs | |
LHST | Left shoulder of a Head and Shoulders Top | |
LIM | limit order | |
LL | Lower Low | |
LLD | Locked Limit Down, trading is halted, currently for 15 minutes. This makes the bar numbering off by 2 | |
LLDB | Lower Low Double Bottom is a double bottom where the 2nd low is lower | |
LLH | Low of the last 60 minute bar | |
LLM | Low of Last Month | |
LLMTR | Lower Low Major Trend Reversal | |
LLS | Lower Lows | |
LLU | Locked Limit Up, trading is halted, currently for 15 minutes. This makes the bar numbering off by 2 | |
LLW | Low of Last Week | |
LLY | Low of last year | |
LM | Low of Month | |
LOA | Sell with Limit Order Above bars | |
LOB | Buy with Limit Order Below bars | |
LOBL | Limit Order Bulls, which means buys buying with limit orders, betting on a reversal up instead of a bear breakout | |
LOBLM | Limit order Bull scalpers have been making Money | |
LOBLNM | Limit order Bull scalpers have not been making Money | |
LOBR | Limit Order Bears, which means bears selling with limit orders, betting on a reversal down instead of a bull breakout | |
LOBRM | Limit order Bear scalpers have been making Money | |
LOBRNM | Limit order Bear scalpers have not been making Money | |
LOD | Low of the Day | |
LOLM | Low of Last Month | |
LOLW | Low of Last Week | |
LOM | Limit Order Market so easier to make money with limit orders than with stop orders. Bears will probably sell above and many will scale in higher, and bulls will buy below and many will scale in lower. Both expect small moves and will mostly scalp. | |
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 | |
LRB | Lower risk to buy pullback or wait for Buy The Close and use stop about 1 point below prior bar | |
LRP | Lower Probability | |
LRS | Lower risk to sell pullback (a bounce) or wait for Sell The Close and use stop about 1 point above prior bar | |
LRTR | Lower trading range in Trending Trading Range Day | |
LS | Lows | |
LTR | Lower Trading Range | |
LW | Low of Week | |
LY | Low of Yesterday | |
LYR | Low of Last Year | |
MA | Moving Average | |
MABL99.5 | 99.5% chance of at least 3 bars with low at least 1 tick below Moving Average at some point today | |
MABR99.5 | 99.5% chance of at least 3 bars with high at least 1 tick above Moving Average at some point today | |
MAG | Moving Average Gap Bar | |
MAGB | Moving Average Gap bar Buy signal, which means there is a gap between the high of the bar and the exponential moving average in a bull trend | |
MAGS | Moving Average Gap bar Sell signal, which means there is a gap between the low of the bar and the exponential moving average in a bear trend | |
MBRS | Major bear surprise, only 30% chance of bull trend reversal. Example: 20221129 | |
MBLS | Major bull surprise, only 30% chance of bear trend reversal. | |
MBO | Minor Breakout, probably a scalp that lasts only 1-5 bars | |
MBOD | Minor Breakout Down, probably a scalp that lasts only 1-5 bars | |
MBOU | Minor Breakout Up, probably a scalp that lasts only 1-5 bars | |
MC | Microchannel | |
MCH | MicroChannel | |
MD | Middle third of the day from 9:30 or 10 am PST to 11:30 often enters tight trading range and becomes Limit Order Market so failed breakouts are common | |
MDB | Micro Double Bottom | |
MDBS | Micro Double Bottoms | |
MDR | Midday reversal is a reversal in the middle of the day, sometimes exactly at bar 40 or 41, and sometimes leads to opposite trend for rest of day | |
MDRD | Midday reversal down is a bear trend reversal in the middle of the day, sometimes exactly at bar 40 or 41, and sometimes leads to bear trend for rest of day | |
MDRU | Midday reversal up is a bull trend reversal in the middle of the day, sometimes exactly at bar 40 or 41, and sometimes leads to bull trend for rest of day | |
MDRV | Midday reversal is a reversal in the middle of the day, sometimes exactly at bar 40 or 41, and sometimes leads to opposite trend for rest of day | |
MDRVD | Midday reversal down is a bear trend reversal in the middle of the day, sometimes exactly at bar 40 or 41, and sometimes leads to bear trend for rest of day | |
MDRVU | Midday reversal up is a bull trend reversal in the middle of the day, sometimes exactly at bar 40 or 41, and sometimes leads to bull trend for rest of day | |
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 | |
MGN | Magnet | |
MGS | Measuring Gaps, gaps of any kind that can lead to measured moves (only certain in hindsight) | |
MHL | Major Higher Low | |
MIN | Minimum or Minutes | |
MKT | market | |
MLH | Major Lower High | |
MM | Measured Move | |
MMD | Measured Move Down | |
MMS | Measured Moves | |
MMT | Measured Move Target | |
MMTA | Measured Move Target or Targets Above | |
MMTB | Measured Move Target or Targets Below | |
MMTG | Measured Move Target | |
MMTGA | Measured Move Target or Targets Above | |
MMTGB | Measured Move Target or Targets Below | |
MMTS | Measured Move Targets | |
MMU | Measured Move Up | |
MMUD | Measured Move Up or Down | |
MNHL | Minor Higher Low | |
MNLH | Minor Lower High | |
MJW | Major wedge. | |
MNW | Minor wedge. | |
MO | momentum | |
MP | Midpoint | |
MPD | Midpoint of the days range is often a magnet, especially at the end of the day | |
MPM | Midpoint of the months range is often a magnet at the end of the month | |
MPW | Midpoint of the weeks range is often a magnet at the end of the week | |
MRD | Minor Reversal Down so bull flag or bear leg in trading range more likely than bear trend | |
MRLD | Most Recent Leg Down | |
MRLU | Most Recent Leg Up | |
MRU | Minor Reversal Up so bear flag or bull leg in trading range more likely than bull trend | |
MRV | Minor Trend Reversal so trading range or pullback more likely than opposite trend | |
MRVD | Minor Reversal Down so bull flag or bear leg in trading range more likely than bear trend | |
MRVU | Minor Reversal Up so bear flag or bull leg in trading range more likely than bull trend | |
MTB | Micro Triple Bottom | |
MTCL | Micro Trend Channel Line | |
MTD | Middle third of the day from 9:30 or 10 am PST to 11:30 often enters tight trading range and becomes Limit Order Market so failed breakouts are common | |
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 | |
NFTD | Bar after bear breakout is the follow through bar and if it is bear bar then lower prices likely, but if bull bar closing on its high, then possible failed breakout and bear trap | |
NFTU | Bar after bull breakout is the follow through bar and if it is bull bar then higher prices likely, but if bear bar closing near its low, then possible failed breakout and bull trap | |
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, right shoulder is smaller | |
NHST | Nested Head and Shoulders Top, right shoulder is smaller | |
NL | NeckLine | |
NPS | Not high enough Probability for a Scalp using a stop entry because risk is too big compared to reward | |
NS | Not high enough probability for a scalp, but reward can be big enough compared to risk to offset low probability so ok swing trade | |
NSBSB | Need Strong Buy Signal Bar, which means a body that is more than 2 ticks and a close near the high of the bar | |
NSS | Not high enough probability for Scalp, not enough time or room for Swing, better to wait | |
NSSSB | Need Strong Sell Signal Bar, which means a body that is more than 2 ticks and a close near the low of the bar | |
NTS | Not enough time to swing or to scale in with limit orders | |
NW | Nested Wedge, 3rd leg is smaller wedge | |
NWS | Need Wide Stop, which requires a smaller position size, or wait for a 2nd signal or a strong breakout. Experienced traders often scale in. | |
NWSS | Need Wide Stop, which requires a smaller position size, or wait for a 2nd signal or a strong breakout. Experienced traders often scale in. | |
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, which means its high is at or above the high of the prior bar and its low is at or below the low of the prior bar and its close is below the open | |
ODD | Outside Down Day, which means a reversal down from above yesterdays high to below yesterdays low. Outside down day means strong bears[2]. | |
ODM | Outside Down Month, which means a reversal down from above last months high to below last months low | |
ODW | Outside Down Week, which means a reversal down from above last weeks high to below last week low | |
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 | |
OK | Okay | |
OL | OverLap | |
OLB | Overlapping Bars, when several bars are sideways and mostly overlap each other, there is a tight trading range and traders prefer to enter on pullbacks or with limit orders; those who enter with stops need wide protective stops and many will scale in | |
OLM | Open of Last Month | |
OLW | Open of Last Week | |
OLY | Open of Last Year | |
OM | Open of Month | |
OO | Consecutive outside bars, Breakout Mode, so both Buy and Sell signal. In a bull trend, it can be top or bull flag. In a bear trend, it can be bottom or bear flag | |
OOD | Open of Day | |
OODM | Open Of Day in Middle 3rd of range, and it is magnet in trading range day | |
OOM | Open of Month | |
OOO | 3 consecutive outside bars, Breakout Mode. In a bull trend, may be a top if the 3rd bar is a bear bar or a bull flag if the 3rd bar is a bull bar. In a bear trend, it can be a bottom if the 3rd bar is a bull bar or a bear flag if the 3rd bars a bear bar. | |
OOT | Open of Today | |
OOW | Open of Week | |
OOY | Open of Yesterday | |
ORD | Opening Reversal Down | |
ORG | Opening Range | |
ORU | Opening Reversal Up | |
ORV | Opening Reversal | |
ORVD | Opening Reversal Down | |
ORVU | Opening Reversal Up | |
OSC | Oscillate, which means reverse several times around an important price | |
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, which means its high is at or above the high of the prior bar and its low is at or below the low of the prior bar and its close is above the open | |
OUD | Outside Up Day, which means a reversal up from below yesterdays low to above yesterdays high | |
OUM | Outside Up Month, which means a reversal up from below last months low to above last months high | |
OUW | Outside Up Week, which means a reversal up from below last weeks low to above last weeks high | |
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 or swing high, reasonable sell setup. Since it is a reversal trade, it is not high probability so it is a swing setup | |
PL | Possible Low of day or swing low, reasonable buy setup. Since it is a reversal trade, it is not high probability so it is a swing setup | |
PMPST | pm Pacific Standard Time | |
POSS | Possibly or possible | |
PP | Probably or probable | |
PPF | Partial profit | 部分獲利。 |
PROB | Probably or probable | |
PS | Possibly or possible | |
PSA | Probably Sellers Above | |
PSB | Probably Sellers Below | |
PST | Pacific Standard Time | |
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 | |
RBMGA | Reasonable Buy signal so it is a Magnet. When there is a reasonable buy signal, bulls who buy lower usually get a test of first buy and make money on lower buy | |
RBS | Reversal Bars | |
RBTC | Reasonable to buy the close and it is a magnet because many bulls who bought will buy more lower, expecting to exit breakeven on 1st buy and with a profit on lower buy. | |
RD | Reversal Day | |
RDU | Reversal Down and Up after first bar so breakout mode | |
REV | Reversal | |
REVD | Reversal Down | |
REVDU | Reversal or Reversals Down and Up | |
REVU | Reversal Up | |
REVUD | Reversal or Reversals Up and Down | |
RHST | Right shoulder of a Head and Shoulders Top | |
RLOB | Reasonable Limit Order Buy so its low is a magnet after any selloff | |
RLOS | Reasonable Limit Order Sell so its high is a magnet after any rally | |
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 | |
RSA | Resistance above | |
RSMGB | Reasonable Sell signal so it is a Magnet. When there is a reasonable sell signal, bears who sell higher usually get a test of first sell and make money on higher sell | |
RSTC | Reasonable to sell the close and it is a magnet because many bears who sold will sell more higher, expecting to exit breakeven on 1st sell and with a profit on higher sell. | |
RUD | Reversal Up and Down after first bar so breakout mode | |
RV | Reversal | |
RVD | Reversal Down | |
RVDU | Reversal or Reversals Down and Up | |
RVS | Reversals | |
RVU | Reversal Up | |
RVUD | Reversal or Reversals Up and Down | |
S | Sell or Short, depending on context | |
S2 | Higher probability to wait for 2nd sell signal or a strong bear breakout, like a couple consecutive big bear bars closing near their lows, else need wide stop and better if can scale in higher | |
SA | Sellers Above, or probably sellers at the high of the bar and scaling in higher | |
SABB | Sellers Above, Buyers Below | |
SB | Sellers Below or probably sellers at the low of the bar | |
SBD | Surprise Bar or Bars Down, so probably will get at least small a 2nd leg sideways to down | |
SBDM | Bear Major Surprise Bar or Bars is exceptionally strong selloff. It will usually prevent a bull trend, even if there is a new high. It will dominate the rest of the day and it increases the chance of sideways to down for the rest of the day | |
SBL | Scale in Bulls | |
SBLB | Strong Bull Bar, which means big bull body and close near high | |
SBLBO | Small Bull Breakout, at least small second leg up is likely after 1-3 bar pullback, which are attempts to reverse down | |
SBLBOF | Small Bull Breakout might fail since follow-through bar is bear bar closing near its low, so possible bull trap and reversal down | |
SBLM | Stop order Bulls making Money in bear leg so sideways to up soon | |
SBNS | Ok Swing Buy, but Not high enough probability for a Scalp | |
SBO2 | Small breakout of a small breakout | |
SBR | Scale in Bears | |
SBRB | Strong Bear Bar, which means big bear body and close near low | |
SBRBO | Small Bear Breakout, at least small second leg down is likely after 1-3 bar pullback (bounce). The bounce is attempt to reverse up | |
SBRBOF | Small Bear Breakout might fail since follow-through bar is bull bar closing near its high so possible bear trap and reversal up | |
SBRM | Stop order Bears making Money in bull leg so sideways to down soon | |
SBS | Signal Bars | |
SBU | Surprise Bar or Bars Up, so probably will get at least a small 2nd leg sideways to up | |
SBUM | Bull Major Surprise Bar or Bars is exceptionally strong rally. It will usually prevent a bear trend, even if there is a new low. It will dominate the rest of the day and it increases the chance of sideways to up for the rest of the day, for e.g. 20221117 | |
SC | Spike and Channel, bull or bear | |
SCB | Spike and Channel Bottom | |
SCBL | Spike and Channel Bull Trend | |
SCBLT | Spike and Channel Bull Trend | |
SCBR | Spike and Channel Bear Trend | |
SCBRT | Spike and Channel Bear Trend | |
SCD | Spike and Channel Down | |
SCS | Swing stop, but scale in, then scalp or swing | |
SCT | Spike and Channel Top | |
SCU | Spike and Channel Up | |
SCX | Spike and climax type of spike and channel | |
SD | Sideways to Down | |
SG | Selling | |
SGD | Small Gap Down usually closes in 1st hour | |
SGP | Selling Pressure | |
SGU | Small Gap Up usually closes in 1st hour | |
SH | Swing High | |
SHORTDAY | I will stop talking and typing at 9 am today, but I will return at 1 pm for a summary and questions | |
SHS | Swing Highs | |
S2LU | At least small second leg up. | 大概率至少有向上的第二小腿。 |
S2LD | At least small second leg down. | 大概率至少有向下的第二小腿。 |
SL | Swing Low | |
SLS | Swing Lows | |
SMD | Small Day | |
SOBL | Stop Order Bulls, which means bulls buying with stop orders | |
SOBLM | Stop Order Bulls making Money | |
SOBLNM | Stop Order Bulls Not making Money | |
SOBLP | Stop Order Buy is Low Probability | |
SOBR | Stop Order Bears, which means bears selling with stop order | |
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 or Support Below, depending on context | |
SPBL | Small PullBack Bull trend | |
SPBLT | Small PullBack Bull trend | |
SPBR | Small PullBack Bear trend | |
SPBRT | Small PullBack Bear trend | |
SPBTD | Small PullBack Trend Day | |
SPWCHD | Spike and parabolic wedge down so probably bounce soon | |
SPWCHU | Spike and parabolic wedge up so probably PB soon | |
SPWD | Spike and parabolic wedge down so probably bounce soon | |
SPWU | Spike and parabolic wedge up so probably PB soon | |
SR | Support and/or Resistance, depending on context | |
SRB | Probably sellers below | |
SRS | Sellers | |
SS | Shrinking Stairs | |
SS2 | Better to wait for a 2nd sell signal or for a strong bear breakout, which means 2 or 3 bear bars closing near their lows; or, need wide stop and better if can scale in. | |
SSB | Sell Signal Bar | |
SSBD | Sell Signal Bar on Daily chart | |
SSBM | Sell Signal Bar on Monthly chart | |
SSBW | Sell Signal Bar on Weekly chart | |
SSNS | Ok Swing Sell, but Not high enough probability for a Scalp | |
SSS | Swing Stop even if Scalping | |
STC | Sell The Close bear trend so traders will sell the close of bear bar closing near its low or sell below bear bar that closes near its low | |
STCBR | Sell The Close Bears | |
STCE | Sell the Close selloff until the End of day | |
STE | Strong Traders Equation | |
STF | Shorter Time Frame, for example, a 1 min chart compared to a 5 min | |
STFS | Shorter Time Frames, for example, a 1 min chart compared to a 5 min | |
STL | Sell The Low bear trend is a series of bear bars closing near their lows, and bears will sell with a stop 1 tick below the low of the prior bar, and exit above a bull bar closing above its midpoint or 1 - 2 points above any bar | |
SU | Sideways to Up | |
SV | Sell Vacuum test of support | |
SVT | Sell Vacuum test of support | |
SW | SideWays | |
SWD | SideWays more likely than Down | |
SWSS | Only S if using a Wide Stop, and better if can scale in higher | |
SWU | SideWays more likely than Up | |
SX | Sell Climax, one or more big bear bars closing near their lows | |
SXH | Sell Climax High, high of sell climax bar or bars | |
SXL | Sell Climax Low, Low of sell climax bar or bars | |
SXS | Sell Climaxes | |
SZ | Sell Zone, an area where traders will look to sell | |
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 | |
T1BD | Trend From The Open Bear Trend | |
T1BL | Trend From The Open Bull Trend | |
T1BR | Trend From The Open Bear Trend | |
T1BU | Trend From The Open Bull Trend | |
T2 | 2nd Trend | |
T3 | 3rd Trend | |
TB | Trend Bar | |
TBL | Trapped bulls, they will have to sell to minimize their loss, increasing chance of lower prices | |
TBLB | Tick Bull Body | |
TBLC | Tight Bull Channel | |
TBLCH | Tight Bull Channel | |
TBR | Trapped bears, they will have to buy to minimize their loss, increasing chance of higher prices | |
TBRB | Tick Bear Body | |
TBRC | Tight Bear Channel | |
TBRCH | Tight Bear Channel | |
TBS | Trend Bars | |
TBTL | approximately Ten Bar correction with at least Two Legs | |
TBTLSD | Ten Bars and Two Legs Sideways to Down | |
TBTLSU | Ten Bars and Two Legs Sideways to Up | |
TC | Tight Channel | |
TCBL | Trending Bull Closes, every close at or above close of prior bar so higher prices likely | |
TCBR | Trending Bear Closes, every close at or below close of prior bar so lower prices likely | |
TCH | Tight Channel | |
TCHD | Tight bear channel | |
TCHU | Tight bull channel | |
TCL | Trend Channel Line | |
TCLR | Trend Channel Line overshoot and reversal | |
TCLS | Trend Channel Lines | |
TCOL | Tight channel but lots of overlapping bars, reversals, and prominent tails so more limit order trading, despite trend | |
TD | Trend Day or Days | |
TDDIV | Tick Double Divergence on one minute chart | |
TDIV | Tick Divergence on one minute chart | |
TE | Traders Equation (need chance of success times the reward 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 | |
TFWSR | Today is Friday so weekly support and resistance can be important, especially in the final hour | |
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 | |
TNTR | Trending Trading Range[3] | |
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 | |
TRESD | Trend Resumption Down | |
TRESU | Trend Resumption Up | |
TREV | Trend Reversal | |
TREVD | Trend Reversal Down | |
TREVU | Trend Reversal Up | |
TRI | Triangle means trading range with 5 or more reversals with either 2 higher lows and 1 lower high or 1 higher low and 2 lower highs. 50% chance breakout up or down, and 50% chance 1st breakout fails, Breakout Mode | |
TRIE | Expanding triangle means 5 or more reversals in a trading range with either 2 higher highs and 1 lower low or 1 lower high and 2 lower lows | |
TRIO | Triangle Open | |
TRL | Trading Range Likely | |
TRO | Trading Range Open so mostly a limit order market and Breakout Mode. The bulls will look for a double bottom or wedge bottom and then a swing up. The bears want a double top or wedge top and then a swing down | |
TRPA | Trading Range Price Action, which means lots of reversals, prominent tails, and limit order entries | |
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 | |
TS | TradeStation | |
TSC | Today is a short chat day, with me stopping talking and typing at 9 am Pacific Time, and resuming with my end of the day talk at 1 pm | |
TST | Two-Sided Trading | |
TT | Triple Top | |
TTR | Tight Trading Range, limit order market, bad for scalping with stop orders. Most traders should wait. Usually the bars are small and tends to reverse every 2 or 3 bars, but sometime the bars can be big, however if they still reverse every 2 or 3 bars, bad for stop entry traders, making it essentially still TTR, for e.g. the TR open on 20221115. | 窄幅震盪。 |
TTRL | Tight Trading Range, limit order market, bulls scaling in below and bears above | |
TTRLP | Tight Trading Range and therefore buying with a stop above or selling with a stop below is a Lower Pprobability trade. There might be more sellers above and buyers below, leading to a continuation of the tight trading range | |
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 | |
TW | Truncated Wedge | |
TWB | Truncated Wedge Bottom, third leg down did not fall below second | |
TWD | Truncated Wedge Down, third leg down did not fall below second | |
TWT | Truncated Wedge top, third leg up did not go above second | |
TWU | Truncated Wedge Up, third leg up did not go above second | |
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 | |
VTTR | Very Tight Trading Range so difficult to make money even with limit orders. Most traders should wait. | |
W | Wedge or anything similar, like any 3 push pattern | |
W2 | Wedge2, Wedge 2nd entry or a Failed Failed Wedge | |
WB | Wedge Bottom | |
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 | Only take the trade if you can use a Wide Stop, and higher probability if can trade small and Scale in | |
WT | Wedge Top | |
WTB | Better to Wait to Buy | |
WTE | Weak Traders Equation | |
WTS | Better to Wait to Sell | |
X | Climax | |
XS | Climaxes | |
Y | Yesterday | |
Y2 | High of Yesterday or Low 2nd Entry | |
YBX | Yesterday ended with a buy climax so only 25% chance of strong bull trend today, but 50% chance of follow-through buying in 1st 2 hours. Then, 75% chance of at least 2 hours of sideways to down trading that starts by the end of the 2nd hour | |
YSX | Yesterday ended with a sell climax so only 25% chance of strong bear trend today, but 50% chance of follow-through selling in 1st 2 hours. Then, 75% chance of at least 2 hours of sideways to up trading that starts by the end of the 2nd hour | |
YTRD | Yesterday was a trading range day and today is opening within range of yesterday, increasing the chance of more trading range trading today. |