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Trading Glossary & Terminology

Learn the trading lingo and vocabulary and you’ll unlock the door to a whole host of trading secrets. Below we have collated the essential basic jargon, to create an easy to understand day trading glossary.

• Leverage rate – This is the rate your broker will multiply your deposit by, giving you buying power.

• Automated trading – Automated trading systems are programs that will automatically enter and exit trades based on a pre-programmed set of rules and criteria. They are also known as algorithmic trading systems, trading robots, or just bots.

• Initial Public Offering (IPO) – This is when a company sells a fixed number of shares to the market to raise capital.

• Float – This is how many shares are available to trade. If a company releases 10,000 shares in the initial IPO, the float would be 10,000.

• Beta – This numeric value measures the fluctuation of a stock against changes in the market.

• Penny Stocks – These are any stocks trading below $5 a share.

• Profit/Loss ratio – Based on a percentage basis, this is the measure of a system’s ability to generate profit instead of loss.

• Entry points – This is the price at which you buy and enter your position.

• Exit points – This is the price at which you sell and exit your position.

• Bull/Bullish – If you take a bullish position day trading you expect the stock to go up.

• Bear/Bearish – If you take a bearish position you expect the stock to go down.

• Market trends – This is the general direction a security is heading over a given time frame.

• Hotkeys – These pre-programmed keys allow you to enter and exit trades rapidly, making them ideal if you need to exit a losing position as soon as possible.

Financial Glossary – Word \| Meaning

Ambiguity	confusion
Array	Collection
Backwardation	A market condition where The future price of a
	commodity is Higher than the presentor “spot”
	price. This is bullish for long term prices.
Baffle	confuse
Bayonet	Spiked
Beating retreat	Cutting out/ fall back
Beelined	Head straightway up
Bolstered	Boost/strengthen
Botched	Failed to
Buffed	Polished
Buoy	Float
Buoyant	Optimistic
Cable	Cable is a foreign exchange term used for the
	GBP/USD currency pair rate (British pound
	priced in US dollars). The term cable is a slang
	term used by forex traders to refer to the
	exchange rate between the pound and dollar
	and is also used to simply refer to the British
	pound itself.
Catalyst	Medium/Means
Chinwags	Chat/ informal conversation
Chipper	Cheerful
Clamber	Rise/climb

Clipping its wing	Keeping within certain limits
Crumbled	Destroy
Curb	Limit
Cyclical Stocks	Cyclical stocks are affected by macroeconomic
	changes, where its returns follow the cycles of
	an economy. Cyclical stocks are generally the
	opposite of defensive stocks. Cyclical stocks
	include discretionary companies, such as
	Starbucks or Nike, while defensive stocks are
	staples, such as Campbell Soup
Dearth	Absence
Defy gravity	Loose ground/hang
Detrimental	Harmful
Dismal	Depressing
Doji Candle	A doji candle stick forms when a security’s
	open and close are virtually equal for the given
	time period and generally signals a reversal
	pattern for technical analysts. In Japanese,
	“doji” means blunder or mistake, referring to
	the rarity of having the open and close price
	be exactly the same
Dollar wilts	Fading dollar
Dovish	When the Fed or central bank is less worried
	about inflation and more worried about weak
	growth, high unemployment, or even deflation
	because the economy is either growing weakly
	or even contracting
Dovish	Peaceful
Dreadful Horrible

Echelon	Level
Economy resurgence	Economy recovery
Efficacy	Effectiveness
Eke higher	Move higher
Eked	Survive
Eking	Gaining
Escalated	Pushed forward
Escorting	Leading to
Fibonacci retracement	In finance, Fibonacci retracement is a method
	of technical analysis for determining support
	and resistance levels. They are named after
	their use of the Fibonacci sequence. Fibonacci
	retracement is based on the idea that markets
	will retrace a predictable portion of a move,
	after which they will continue to move in the
	original direction.
Flocked to	Headed to/gather to
Forge ahead	Make progress/ go forward
Fortified	Strengthened
G 10 Currencies	The G10 currencies are ten of the most heavily
	traded currencies in the world, which are also
	ten of the world’s most liquid currencies
Ground-warded	Fell down
Halt	Pause
Havoc	Chaos
Head and Shoulder	A head and shoulders pattern is a chart
	formation that appears as a baseline with
	three peaks, the outside two are close in
	height and the middle is highest. In technical

analysis, a head and shoulders pattern
describes a specific chart formation that
predicts a bullish-to-bearish trend reversal.
Hefty	Strong
Hitch up	Move upward
Hopped	Jumped
Hover	Float
Impulse	Urge/desire
Iron-Handed	Firm
Jaded Trade	Dull trade
Jitter	Shake
Jittery	Jumpy/nervous
Jovial	Cheerful
Keeping light under a bushel	Modest/humble
Lackluster	Dull
Latching into	Gaining
Leaden-footed	Slow down
Leaps and Bound	To move upward
Lethal	Toxic/deadly
Lethargic	Slow/dull
Limbo	Uncertainty
Mainstay	Foundation/support
Massive	Big
Momentum	Force
Novel	Fresh/new
Nuts and Bolts	Fundamentals/ Key point
On the horns of dilemma	Facing a choice between two equally
	undesirable alternatives
Oozing out release in drops

Pacify	Soothe
Palpitated	Tremble
Penny Stocks	Penny stocks are common shares of small
	public companies that trade for less than one
	dollar per share.
Pinnacle	Top
Plummet	Fall/weak
Plunged	Dipped/fall
Poised	Hover
Probe	Investigate/Search
Propelled	Push
Proverbed	Said
Pullback	Withdraw
Rebound	Recovery
Recoil	Jump back
Reconcile	Settle
Recouped	Regained
Recuperate	Restore growth
Reflation Trade	Reflation trades tend to involve assets exposed
	to faster economic growth, price pressures
	and higher yields
Resurge	Rise
Resurgent	Growing
Retracement	Reversal
Retreat	Withdraw
Retrograde	Fall back
Reverberated	Sounded/Echo
Revved up	To trigger
Ricochet	Bounce off/return

Ruling with a rod of iron	Under strict monitoring
Sabotage	Damage
Seize Opportunity	Grab the opportunity
Short Squeeze	In the stock market, a short squeeze is a rapid
	increase in the price of a stock owing primarily
	to technical factors in the market rather than
	underlying fundamentals.
Silver Lining	Being optimistic
Slumping	Falling
Spic and span	Cleaned/trimmed
Spiraling down	Going down
Spur	Stimulate
Stanchions	Pillars
Stirred	Shake
Stumble on	Discovered
Sturdy	Strong
Sturdy Momentum	Strong drive
Supplementary support	Additional hold
Supplemented	Added
Swiftly Trimmed	Quickly Cut
Symptomatic	Suggestive
Tainted	Changed
Tedious	Dull
Teeter on brink	Seesaw/Tremble
Tenterhooks	Waiting anxiously
Topping patterns	Bullish market
Toppled	Drop down
Topsy-turvy	State of disorder
Tot up	Add up

Traction	Hold grip
Trajectory	Route
Trench	Low/Trough
Tumbled	Slipped
Tumbling	Dropping
Unveil	Show/disclose
Unyielding	Tough
Upturned course	Reverse route
Vigilance	Alert/ Caution
Wallstreetbets	WallStreetBets or WSB, is a sub-reddit where
	participants discuss stock and option trading. It
	has become notable for its profane nature,
	aggressive trading strategies, and role in the
	GameStop short squeeze that caused losses on
	short positions in U.S. firms toppingUS$70
	billion in a few days in early 2021
Wave white flag	To give up on something
Wedged	Trapped/stuck
Well-fortified	Strengthened
Winch Up	Boosted
Wobble	Shake

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