Terminology I Flashcards
If you have to be in the market at all times, either long or short, your current position is called 1. ___.
- Always In (i.e., Always In Long [AIL]or Always In Short [AIS]);
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- In an upswing, a ___ is a bar with a low below the low of the prior bar. In a downswing, it is a bar with a high above that of the prior bar.
- Bar Pullback (AKA Pullback Bar);
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- ___ is a term for a trading range of three or more bars that largely overlap and include one or more dojis. It is a type of tight trading range with prominent tails and often relatively large bars.
Beginners should stop trading until there is a clear 2. ___.
Experienced traders will sometimes 3. ___ below bars and 4. ___ above bars.
- Barbwire;
- Breakout;
- Buy;
- Sell;
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- A ___ is a minor reversal up in a bear trend. Traders expect the bear trend to resume. It can be as brief as one sideways bar or it can retrace most of the most recent leg down. As long as traders believe the market is still Always In Short (AIS), the rally is still more likely to be a _(same)_ than a successful trend reversal up.
- Bear Flag;
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- A ___ is a change in trend from up to down (a bear trend).
- Bear reversal;
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- A ___ is a bar that creates a breakout. It is usually a strong trend bar.
- Breakout Bar (AKA Bar Breakout);
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- A ___ forms when there is a Pullback (PB) that tests a Breakout (BO) point and the tails overlap, but the bodies do not.
- Body Gap (formerly called a Negative Gap);
Note: Think about a bull Breakout (BO) followed by a Pullback (PB) five-to-ten bars later. If the low of the pullback bar falls below the high of the breakout point’s bar, the pullback closes the gap. However, if the low of the body of the Pullback (PB) bar stays above the high of the body of the Breakout (BO) point’s bar, there is a gap between the two bodies. That is a Body Gap. While not as strong as an actual gap, it is a sign of strength and it often is still a Measuring Gap.
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- A ___ forms when the high or low of the current bar extends beyond some prior price of significance such as Support or Resistance, a swing high or low, the high or low of any prior bar, a Trend Line, or a Trend Channel. If the close is beyond the high or low of the prior bar, the _(same)_ is stronger and the distance between the close and the high or low of the prior bar often becomes a measuring gap. Every Bear Trend bar is a _(same)_, as is every Bull Trend bar.
- Breakout (BO);
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- A ___ is an account in which ones losses have fallen below the minimum margin requirements set by the broker. Trading is no longer allowed until additional funds have been depostited.
- Blown Account;
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___ is a setup where a breakout in either direction should have follow-through.
- Breakout Mode;
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- If there is a Buy The Close bull trend, a bear bar is a ___. Traders often take profits below its low. When there is a Sell The Close bear trend, a bull bar is a _(same)_. Bears often take profits above its high.
- Disappointment Bar;
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- A ___ is a small pullback of one to about five bars that occurs within a few bars after a breakout. Since you see it as a pullback, you are expecting the breakout to resume, and the pullback is a setup for that resumption.
- Breakout Pullback;
Note: If instead you thought that the breakout would fail, you would not use the term pullback and instead would see the pullback as the start of a failed breakout and a reversal. For example, if there was a five-bar breakout above a bear trend line, but you believed that the bear trend would resume, you would be considering shorting this and you would be seeing it as a bear flag. You would not be looking to buy a pullback immediately after the market broke out to the downside.
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- A ___ is a breakout pullback that comes close to the original entry price to test a breakeven stop. It may overshoot it or undershoot it by a few ticks. It can occur within a bar or two of entry or after an extended move or even 20 or more bars later.
- Breakout Test;
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- The ___ is the probability that the market will move either up or down any number of ticks before it reaches a certain number of ticks in the opposite direction. If you are looking at an equidistant move up and down, it hovers around 50 percent most of the time, which means that there is a 50–50 chance that the market will move up by X ticks before it moves down X ticks, and a 50–50 chance that it will move down X ticks before it moves up X ticks.
- Directional Probability;
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- A ___ is a chart representation of price action in which the body is the area between the open and the close. If the close is above the open, it is a bull _(same)_ and is shown as white. If it is below, it is a bear _(same)_ and is black. The lines above and below are called tails (some technicians call them wicks or shadows).
- Candle;
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- A ___ is a trade where the intent is to exit on the same day of entry.
- Day Trade;
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- A ___ is a minor reversal down in a bull trend. Traders expect the bull trend to resume. It can be as brief as one sideways bar or it can retrace most of the most recent leg up. As long as traders believe the market is still Always In Long, the selloff is still more likely to be a _(same)_ than a successful trend reversal down.
- Bull Flag;
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- A ___ is a trade taken in the belief that there is more to go in the trend, but that a small pullback is due. A trader enters countertrend to capture a small profit as that small pullback is forming. This is usually a mistake and should be avoided.
- Countertrend Scalp;
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- A ___ is a change in trend from a downtrend to an uptrend (a bull trend).
- Bull Reversal;
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- A trade or setup that is in the opposite direction from the current trend (the current always-in direction) is considered ___. This is a losing strategy for most traders since the risk is usually at least as large as the reward and the probability is rarely high enough to make the trader’s equation favorable.
- Countertrend;
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- A ___ is a series of two or more bull trend bars closing near their highs. If the context is good for a rally, many bulls will buy the closes of the bars or above their highs.
- Buy the Close Bull Trend;
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- The ___ of a trading opportunity is comprised of all the bars to the left showing buying and selling pressure, support and resistance (i.e., the circumstances that support or oppose the execution of a trade setup, or its trade management).
- Context;
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- ___ is characterized by strong bulls asserting themselves; their buying is creating bull trend bars, bars with tails at the bottoms, and two-bar bull reversals. The effect is cumulative and usually is eventually followed by higher prices.
- Buying Pressure;
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- A ___ is a move that has gone too far too fast and has now reversed direction to either a trading range or an opposite trend. Most _(same, plural)_ end with trend channel overshoots and reversals, but most of time, a reversal results in trading ranges and not an opposite trend.
- Climax;
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- A ___ is a candle with a small body or no body at all. On a 5 minute chart, the body would be only one or two ticks; but on a daily chart, the body might be 10 or more ticks and still appear almost nonexistent. Neither the bulls nor the bears control the bar. All bars are either trend bars or nontrend bars, and those nontrend bars are called _(same, plural)_.
- Doji;
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- A ___ is a huge Surprise Bar. It tends to dominate the rest of the day. For example, if there is a huge bull bar, the day will usually be in a bull trend or trading range for the remainder of the day. Its affect sometimes lasts for many days.
- Dominant Feature;
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- A ___ is a chart formation in which the low of the current bar is about the same as the low of a prior swing low. That prior low can be just one bar earlier or 20 or more bars earlier. It does not have to be at the low of the day, and it commonly forms in bull flags (a _(same)_ bull flag).
- Double Bottom;
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- A ___ is characterized by a leg up that is about equal in size to something earlier in the trend. For example, the leg might be the same size as an earlier leg up or the height of a trading range.
- Measured Move in Bull Trend;
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- A ___ is a swing high that is higher than a previous swing high.
- Higher High;
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- A ___ is characterized by a leg down that is about equal in size to something earlier in the trend. For example, the leg might be the same size as an earlier leg down or the height of a trading range.
- Measured Move in Bear Trend;
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- An ___ occurs when the market surpasses a prior price of significance like a swing point or a trend line, and is a special type of Breakout (BO).
- Overshoot;
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- A ___ is a pause or bull flag in a bull trend that has two spikes down to around the same price and then reverses back into a bull trend.
- Double Bottom Bull Flag;
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- An ___ is an outside bar with a close above its open.
- Outside Up Bar;
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A ___ is a breakout that leads to a measured move. A breakout is a trend bar. The gap is from the close of the breakout bar to the breakout point. For example, the top or bottom of a trading range. Usually the move is about equal to the height of the trading range or pattern that preceded the breakout. For example, a bull breakout above a wedge or trading range often rallies to about as many points up as there were in the wedge or trading range.
- Measuring Gap;
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- An ___ is an outside bar with a close below its open.
- Outside Down Bar;
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- A ___ is a buy setup composed of a double bottom followed by a deep pullback that forms a higher low.
- Double Bottom Pullback;
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- An ___ is a bar with a high that is above or at the high of the prior bar and a low that is below the low of the prior bar, or a bar with a low that is below or at the low of the prior bar and a high that is above the high of the prior bar.
- Outside Bar;
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- A ___ is a reversal from a bull to a bear trend or from a bear trend to a bull trend. The setup must include a break out of the channel (below the bull trend line in a bull trend or above the bear trend line in a bear trend). In addition, the reversal begins with a test of the old trend extreme. All _(same)_ tops are variations of double tops, and all _(same)_ bottoms are types of double bottoms.
- Major Trend Reversal;
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- An ___ is a reversal in the first hour or so of the day.
- Opening Reversal;
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- A ___ is a chart formation in which the high of the current bar is about the same as the high of a prior swing high. That prior high can be just one bar earlier or 20 or more bars earlier. It does not have to be at the high of the day, and it commonly forms in bear flags (a double top bear flag).
- Double Top;
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- An ___ is an outside bar followed by a larger outside bar.
- Outside-Outside (oo);
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- A ___ is any trend line that contains most of the price action on the screen and is typically drawn using bars that are at least 10 bars apart.
- Major Trend Line;
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A ___ is a change to an opposite type of behavior. Most technicians use this term to mean a change from a bull trend to a bear trend or from a bear trend to a bull trend. However, trading range behavior is opposite to trending behavior, so when a trend becomes a trading range, this is also a _(same)_. When a trading range becomes a trend, it is a _(same)_ but is usually called a breakout.
- Reversal;
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An ___ is an outside bar followed by an inside bar, followed by an outside bar.
- Outside-Inside-Outside (oio);
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- A ___ is a pause or bear flag in a bear trend that has two spikes up to around the same price and then reverses back into a bear trend.
- Double Top Bear Flag;
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- A ___ is a temporary pause or countertrend move that is part of a trend, swing, or leg and does not retrace beyond the start of the trend, swing, or leg. It is a small trading range where traders expect the trend to resume soon. For example, a bear _(same)_ is a sideways to upward move in a bear trend, swing, or leg that will be followed by at least a test of the prior low. It can be as small as a one-tick move above the high of the prior bar or it can even be a pause, like an inside bar.
- Pullback (PB);
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- ___ is useless information generated by the media for the sole purpose of selling advertising and making money for the media company. It is unrelated to trading, is impossible to evaluate, and should always be ignored.
- News;
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