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Terminology Flashcards

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Liquidity

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Depth of the market- where the traders are lining up to be buyers and sellers. They are creating the market.

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BBO

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Best bid offer- where the price os currently tradioning

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Hitting the bid

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Agressive volume- takes liquidity off the best bid

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Lifting the offer

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take liquidity off the best buy offer - hit the market buy button

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LOB - CLOB - DOM

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Centralised limited order book, limit order book, depth of market

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Current order book

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Current state- depth of the offer, current bid, the spread

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DOM

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Depth of market

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Whyd does the price change

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Heavy imbalance of order book, lots of contracts best offer price. intent of trade affects the price- in times of high volatility change the price.

High liquidity and agression causes imbalance in the book

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Spoofing

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Imbalance drive price lower. - when someone buys or sells big amounts to force the price up or down

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Sweeping of the order bookd

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Trading through 1 or more price levels.

Massive red dots sweeping as the price goes lower

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Market buy sweeping

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High buying drives it up sweeping the levels lifting the offer

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12
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Pullback set ups

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Sweeping - Limit sell orders if we believe it will pull back up- inside the spread because a vacuum has been created.

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13
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Momentum

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Looking for the sweep and joining in

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14
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Pullback

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Drops and comes back up

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15
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market orders

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Based on the current market price

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16
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limit order

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Limit sets that you create to complete the transaction

17
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Open Interest

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number of contracts open or outstanding

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volume

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Number of contracts traded per day

19
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Options

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Open contracts that are out there

20
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Stocks volume

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Number of shares per day

21
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Call contract

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100 shares at certain at certain strike price

22
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Open interest

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1000 + shares

23
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STOCK VOLUME

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1 MILLION

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Short Selling

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Short-selling, or a short sale, is a trading strategy that traders use to take advantage of markets that are falling in price. When you short-sell, you are selling a borrowed asset in the hope that its price will go down, and you can buy it back later for a profit.

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Long Selling

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This is where you buy an asset in the idea that it will trend upwards and can sell at a higher price

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Short covering

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An example of short covering
Let’s say that you have a feeling that Company X’s stock is about to drop, so you short-sell 100 shares at a price of $50, for total proceeds of $5,000. In two weeks, Company X is trading for $40 per share, so you buy 100 shares for $4,000 in order to cover the short position. In this case, the overall result of the trade would be a $1,000 profit.

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Postition

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What Is a Position?
A position is the amount of a security, commodity or currency which is owned by an individual, dealer, institution, or other fiscal entity. They come in two types: short positions, which are borrowed and then sold, and long positions,

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VWAP

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Volume weighted average price

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ETF’s

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Exchange Traded Funds

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STOCKS IN PLAY

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A stock with fresh news A stock that is up or down more than 2% before the market Open A stock that has unusual pre-market trading activity A stock that develops important intraday levels which we can trade off from

31
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How do you recognize the behavior of the market?

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Index funds such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or the S&P 500 (SPY) are usually good indicators of what the overall market is doing. If the Dow Jones or the SPY are red, it means that the overall market is weak. If the Dow Jones or the SPY are strong, then the overall market will be going higher.

Aziz, Andrew. How to Day Trade for a Living: Tools, Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology (p. 59). AMS Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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What makes a stock in play

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Usually it is the release of fundamental news about the stock either the day before or during the same trading day.

33
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Float

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Float means the number of shares available for trading.

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medium float stocks

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stocks in the range of $10-$100. These stocks have medium floats of around 10 million to 500 million shares.

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Stocks in play criteria

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Stocks that in the pre-market gapped up or down at least 2% Stocks that have traded at least 50,000 shares in the pre-market Stocks that have an average daily volume of over 500,000 shares Stocks that have Average True Range of at least 50 cents (how large of a range a stock has on average every day) There is a fundamental catalyst for the stock As a rule, I do not trade stocks with an enormous short interest higher than 30% (the short interest is the quantity of stock shares that investors or traders have sold short but not yet covered or closed out)

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Stocks in play criteria

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Stocks that in the pre-market gapped up or down at least 2% Stocks that have traded at least 50,000 shares in the pre-market Stocks that have an average daily volume of over 500,000 shares Stocks that have Average True Range of at least 50 cents (how large of a range a stock has on average every day) There is a fundamental catalyst for the stock As a rule, I do not trade stocks with an enormous short interest higher than 30% (the short interest is the quantity of stock shares that investors or traders have sold short but not yet covered or closed out)

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Requirements for stocks in play

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Have gapped up or down at least $1 Have ATR of more than 50 cents Have average relative volume of at least 1.5 (the stock is trading at 1.5 times its normal volume) Have average daily trading volume of at least 500,000 shares Those are my requirements for a stock to be in play.

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What is a bid

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What peoples are offering - bid is always lower , the difference is bid ask spread

39
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Ask

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What sellers are demanding

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