By Clint (62.122.35.17) martedì 13 marzo 2001 - 13:08

Ecco un cut&paste pieno di verita'
(Si' lo so che e' in inglese)

Advisor - anyone who charges for stock advice to cover his losses in the market
Advisory Service - an advisor who has lost a very large amount and started a new business
Afternoon - the opportunity to give back all the money you made that morning (see Friday)
Apprentice - That person who looks at your screen just after you get out of a winning trade
Average Down - what you have to do if you were long and had to go to the bathroom
Average Up - what you have to do if you were short and had to go to the bathroom

Bad Trade/Stupid Trade - a losing trade that somebody else does that doesn't fit your strategy
Backup Plan - see Averaging Up, Averaging Down, turning your short term trade into a long term investment
Break Bottom - (when you are long) the exact spot where you give up averaging down and sell (when you are short) the spot where the book says you should go short but cames seem to ever execute
Break - what you take when you have either 2 winners or 5 losers in a row
Broker - somebody that studied hard and has a fancy license to legally lose your money and then charges you for ìt

Chair of Woe - the empty chair where the new guy sits next to the pro who trades
Chart - what you check after you exit the trade to try and figure out what went wrong
Cheap Stock - a stock that goes down as soon as you decide not to short ìt
Confusion - what anyone has with more than 4 open positions.
Coyote Syndrome - when you have to chew your own arm off so you don't click the mouse again to make another trade

Day Trade - a trade where you get in way too late and get out way too early
Double Up - phrase you use to explain your open position after you accidentally bought more instead of selling what you owned
Down On The Day - a temporary situation until "right after this next trade"

Excellent Company - any stock you make a winning trade on
Excellent Long Term Investment - A Position Trade that went the wrong way right after you took the position.
Expensive Stock - any stock going up as soon as you decide not to go long
Expert - new guy who hasn't started trading yet (see Licensed Expert)

Freak - anyone who can do three winning trades in a row
Friday - The weekly opportunity to give back everything you made that week (see Afternoon)
Fundamental Analysis - the process of checking reasons why a stock will turn around after ìt went against you.

Gap Up - a stock that opens higher than ìt closed the day before, and will go down if you buy ••, but will continue to go up if you short ìt
Genius - what an Apprentice thinks you are if you luck out 3 times in a row

Halt (stock) - (open position) impending really good news or really bad news, but in either case, the scariest thing ever invented
Highlight - selling into the rally while the guy on TV explains the complex reasons why the stock is special
Home Run - every single trade you consider, tell somebody else about and then don't do yourself
Huge Player - 1. any guy with more than fifteen grand left 2. any trader that's been there for more than three months

Idiot - the fool that gives you his stock to cover your winning short position
INCA - (if long) some creep that puts up a 50,000 share offer right when you go long (if short) the same guy going long
Interest Rates - the excuse the market makers offer to cover up their manipulation of the stock market
IPO - expensive cyanide
IPO (Internet) - Expensive Cyanide sitting on top of a box of fireworks

Joker - a Pro who takes a break and walks around laughing to himself (see Pro, Break)

Level 2 - the level in Hell where the Devil explains a complex way to lose a very large amount of money in a very short period of time
Licensed Expert - a guy with a Series 7 license that hasn't started trading yet
Loudmouth - 1. Anyone that says anything anywhere near you while you are in the middle of a losing trade 2. The new guy that can't seem to pull the trigger and then yells out, "ìt's running!"
Lucky Trade - a winning trade that somebody else made that doesn't exactly fit your strategy
Lunch Money - what you throw away between 11 a•••. and 1 p•••. Eastern time

Manager - the only day trader who figured out a Never Lose Trading System
Margin - (if you are up) a no risk situation with huge potential return (if you are down) an evil invention by Unseen Forces that tricks you into losing more money than you have
Margin Call - what happens every time your clearing firm makes any sort of accounting mistake
Market Maker - the guy that has your computer being spied on and takes the opposite of all your losing trades.
Moron - that guy that buys your winning long position
Moving Average - a wavy line that traders use to figure ways that the stock will come back.

Pain - exiting at a loss, reversing your position on the stock and then watching ìt go the way you knew ìt would in the first place. (See also afternnoon)
Paper Trade - any trade you tell your friends about to explain your system
Partial Fill - a test the Market Makers provide to see if you can quickly do simple math while under extreme stress

Scalping - losing only an eighth at a time plus commissions
Secret Trade - any trade that you don't mention to the Apprentice when he asks you how you are doing
Severe Pain - being down 3/8 on 1000 shares where the volume dried up and then noticing you missed 4 points on that other trade you were going to do instead (see Pain)
Short List - daily list of stocks that will go up and never pull back
Short List Request - request submitted to the clearing firm which contains a list of all stocks that you could short yesterday and can short tomorrow, but not today
Short Squeeze - (when you are short) when someone you never met and shouldn't really have anything against you tries to cause you and your family pain (when you are long) proof you are a god.
Special Situation - when you watch your losing stop limit go by and take a larger position instead of exiting the trade (see Long Term Investment)
Spread (if a winning trade) sharing the wealth (if a losing trade) someone on the floor is stealing your money
System Trade - the phrase you use to explain to the Apprentice how your trade didn't work out the way you planned ìt

Technical Analysis - (traditional) voodoo without the live animals, dancing, and chanting (Point and Figure) really strange voodoo without the live animals, dancing and chanting
Top - (when long) the point on the chart where the stock backs off real fast before you get out (when short) the exact spot where you cover
Trainer - the only guy in the room who has never day traded in his entire life
Trend Line - the imaginary line on a price chart that only changes when the market is closed or when you are not looking

Up On The Day - what you are when the market closes, not counting commissions
Uptick - (if long) added hope (if short) the Market Maker letting everyone else in (if no position) another good chance to lose some money by going short

Volume Spike - (open position) confirmation that you are either the smartest person on the planet or the biggest idiot (no position) confirmation that you are the smartest person on the planet but you were not paying attention

By AL (212.216.27.116) martedì 13 marzo 2001 - 17:38

Cosa vuoi che sia...bazzeccole..il mio pane quotidiano.
Affidati al vecchio Francesco Carla' della baita di Bait and Borghi.

(non ci capisco na' sega di T . O . L)

By Clint (62.122.33.118) mercoledì 14 marzo 2001 - 02:06

Hahaha Di_o mi scampi da Carla', avrei gia' le pezze al c*lo... mi fido assai piu' di Stupachu

By hapablap (216.34.244.8) mercoledì 14 marzo 2001 - 16:38

Heheheh... manca solo la definizione di Stop Loss.

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