Stock Trading Acronyms and Day Trading Terms

Typically NOT used near market open. Proper usage is when a stock has retreated from a high or low, then later makes a new high or new low.

ADR — average day range over a certain period number of days, example: ADR 30 — the higher the number the more volatile.

DD - Due diligence, do your homework on the stock, news, earnings, fundamentals etc. Low float -usually small cap companies with fewer shares issued and a lot of those shares owned by insiders or institutions.

Hence lower number of shares actively traded. Jiggy — Phrase coined by Muddy.

Stock Exchange Abbreviations

DayRanger refers to the stocks from our scan with the highest average day range a measure of volatility. More volatility can equal greater than average returns.

The day range returns the difference between the high and low prices of the day, represented as a percent of the closing value. For example, suppose a stock closed at 10, the high was 11 and the low was 9. The difference between the high and low is 2. Represented as a percent, the day range is: PPT Plunge protection team — meaning the prop job that comes in towards the end of the day to give the market a boost into the next trading session.