The following Acronym List is a quickie reference to those starting with forex.

In alphabetical order -

ADX.....Average Directional Index (technical indicator)

ATR.....Average True Range (technical indicator)

AUD.....Australian Dollar (ISO code)

BB.......Bollinger Bands (technical indicator)

BOC.....Bank of Canada


BOE.....Bank of England

BOJ.....Bank of Japan

CAD....Canadian Dollar (ISO code)

CBOT.. Chicago Board of Trade

CCI.....Commodity Channel Index (technical indicator)

CFA.....Chartered Financial Analyst

CFTC....Commodity Futures Trading Commission (regulatory)

CHF.....Swiss Franc (Confederation Helvetia Franc)

CME.....Chicago Mercantile Exchange

COT.....Commitment of Traders (economic report)

CSI......Commodity Selection Index (technical indicator)

CTA.....Commodity Trading Advisor

DD.......Drawdown also Due Diligence also Dealing Desk

DJIA.....Dow Jones Industrial Average

EA.......Expert Advisor

ECB.....European Central Bank

ECN.....Electronic Communication Network also Electronic Currency Network

EMA.....Exponential Moving Average (technical indicator)

EUR.....Euro (ISO code)

EW......Elliott Wave (theory)

FA.......Fundamental Analysis

FCM.....Futures Commission Merchant

FDM.....Forex Dealer Member

Fed.....Federal Reserve

FF.......ForexFactory

FOMC...Federal Open Market Committee

FX.......Foreign Exchange

GBP.....Great Britain Pound Sterling (ISO code)

GMT....Greenwich Mean Time

HH......Higher High (chart)

HL......Higher Low (chart)

IB.......Introducing Broker also Interbank also Interactive Brokers also Inside Bar

IMF.....International Monetary Fund

ISO.....International Organization for Standardisation

JPY.....Japanese Yen (ISO code)

LH......Lower High (chart)

LL.......Lower Low (chart)

LWMA....Linear Weighted Moving Average (technical indicator)

MT4.....MetaTrader Version 4.00 (trading platform)

MA......Moving Average (technical indicator)

MACD....Moving Average Convergence Divergence (technical indicator)

MM......Market Maker also Money Management

NASDAQ..National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation

NDA.....Non Disclosure Agreement

NDD.....Non Dealing Desk

NFA.....National Futures Association (regulatory)

NFP.....Non-Farm Payroll (economic report)

NYSE...New York Stock Exchange

NZD.....New Zealand Dollar (ISO code)

OCO.....One Cancels the Other (order type)

OHLC....Open, High, Low, Close (chart)

OTC.....Over-the-Counter

P&F.....Point and Figure (chart)

PA........Price Action

PB........Pin Bar abbreviation of Pinocchio Bar (chart)

PSAR.....Parabolic Stop and Reversal (technical indicator)

Quant...Quantitative Analysis

R/R.....Risk/Reward (ratio)

RSI.....Relative Strength Index (technical indicator)

RVI.....Relative Vigor Index (technical indicator)

SAR.....Stop and Reversal

SEC.....Securities and Exchange Commission (regulatory)

SL......Stop Loss (order)

SMA.....Simple Moving Average (technical indicator)

SMMA....Smoothed Moving Average (technical indicator)

S&P.....Standard & Poor's

S/R.....Support/Resistance

Stoch...Stochastic Oscillator (technical indicator)

STP.....Straight Through Processing

TA......Technical Analysis

TF......Time Frame

TL......Trend Line

TP......Take Profit (order)

TS......Trailing Stop (order)

TSI.....True Strength Index (technical indicator)

USD.....United States Dollar (ISO code)

USDX....United States Dollar Index (ISO code)

UTC.....Universal Time, Coordinated

WB......World Bank

XAG.....Silver (ISO code)

XAU.....Gold (ISO code)



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