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"Room to Add" or "Room for More""The Trend is Your Friend"/ES 5min20 <strong>Long Continuation Trigger (LCT)</strong>

A

A+ setup Add or Adding ADS (American Depositary Shares)Algorithm (aka “algo”)All Cash, All Stock Offer Asset At the Market Stock Offering ATH

B

Bag Holder Basis Points (BPS)BK Bounce Break Even Breakout & Breakdown Buy the ask & Sell the bid Buy to cover Buyout

C

Chase Chop or Choppy Closeout Confluence Consolidate Context of a trade Conviction

D

DAS Day 1 and Day 2 Direct Offering Discretionary Order

E

Earnings Guidance EBITDA – Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization Emotional Move Equity eSignal Exhaustion Extended Move

F

Fat Finger Fibonacci Retracing Levels Fill Flat Float Follow Front Run Full round-tripper Full Size Futures and Options Trading

G

G2C (Gap to Close)Grind/Grinding

H

Heavy High-Probability How does gaining trader status change the wash sale restriction?How does short locate work HTB/ETB

I

I'm Out If it Comes Imbalance Indicator Inducement grant Initial Public Offering/IPO Institutional ownership Intraday trading Invalidation Point IPO

J

January Effect Junk

L

Lightspeed Liquidity Lock-up Period Lot Size Lounge Low Volume

M

MACD: Moving Average Convergence Divergence Market is pulling Meat on the Bone Members' Trading Floor Memorandum of Understanding/MOU Mirror Mod or Moderator Monthly More Buyers than Sellers (Or More Sellers than Buyers)Morning Hour

N

No-Trade List Nonfarm Payroll Not Enough Volume

O

Open Position Order Overhead

P

P&L Partial Lot Size PDH (also PDL etc. – see also OHLC)Pivot or Pivot Point Point(s) (+1)POP Position Position Traders Previous Day Open, High, Low, Close Price Discovery Pro Room Producer Price Index Pullback Pump and Dump

Q

Quadruple Witching Quarterly

R

Realized gains/losses RealTick Red to green Regulation T Call Resistance Retracement Reverse Split Reverse/Reversal Risk Tolerance RSU/Restricted Stock Unit

U

United States Redbook Index Upside

V

W

Walk Away Warrant Wash Wash sale rule Watching $XYZ Weekly What are 1R, 2R, and 3R (Risk Management)Widowmaker Window Dressing

Z

Zero Commision Zoom