Glossary

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

—–- # -–—

200 Day Moving Average
52 Week High
52 Week Low

—–- A -–—

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
Capturing Alpha
Channel
Channel Breakdown
Channel Breakout
Churning
Confirmed
Congestion
Consolidation
Consolidation Breakdown
Consolidation Breakout
Continuation
Continuation Pattern
Correlation Coefficient

—–- D -–—

Day Trading
Death Cross
Discretionary Trading
Divergence
Doji
Dragonfly Doji

—–- E -–—

EMA
ETF
Efficient Market Theory
E-Mini
Enveloping
Equities
eSignal
Equi-Volume
Exchange Traded Fund
Expected Ratio
Exponential Moving Average
External Linking

—–- F -–—

Fat Tails
Fibonacci
Fibonacci Retracement
Filtering
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 -–—

Idea Generation
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 -–—

Market Conditions
Market Forces
Market Velocity
Mean
Mean Reversion Trading
Moving Average
Multi-Strategy Window

—–- 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
Social Trading
Specific Volume
Spread
Soft Dollar Broker
Standard Deviation
Statistical Analysis
Statistical Analysis of Price Patterns
Stock Scanner
Strategy
Support
Support and Resistance
System Trading
Systems Trading

—–- T -–—

Technical Analysis
Technical Breakdown
Technical Breakout
Technical Levels
Tick Chart
Tick Data
Top List
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

Sample Alerts


Sample Top List