ABBREVIATIONS
This is an alphabetic list of abbreviations used on this website
| AI | artificial intelligence |
| AIM | Alternative Investment Market (the LSE market for small and medium size growth companies) |
| AMEX | American Stock Exchange |
| API | application programming interface |
| ASIC | Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
| ASX | Australian Securities Exchange |
| ATR | average true range (indicator) |
| CBOT | Chicago Board of Trade |
| CFD | contract for difference |
| CFTC | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (US) |
| CME | Chicago Mercantile Exchange |
| COMEX | Commodity Exchange Inc |
| CySEC | Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission |
| DMA | direct market access |
| DOM | depth of market |
| EA | expert advisor |
| ECN | electronic communication network |
| EFT | exchange traded fund |
| EOD | end of day |
| ET | Eastern Time (United States) |
| EU | European Union |
| EUREX | European exchange |
| FCM | futures commission merchant |
| FMC | financial management centre |
| FTSE | Financial Times Stock Exchange Group (UK) |
| GLOBEX | global electronic trading system |
| GST | goods and services tax |
| GTC | good till cancelled (order) |
| HFT | high-frequency trading/trader |
| IB | Introducing Broker |
| ICE | Intercontinental Exchange |
| IDE | integrated developer environment |
| IPO | initial public offering (of a stock) |
| JSE | Johannesburg Stock Exchange |
| LSE | London Stock Exchange |
| MACD | moving average convergence divergence (indicator) |
| NASDAQ | National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations |
| NFA | National Futures Association |
| NYMEX | New York Mercantile Exchange |
| NYSE | New York Stock Exchange |
| NZX | New Zealand Stock Exchange |
| OCO | one-cancels-the-other |
| OHLC | open, high, low, close |
| OMS | order management system |
| OTC | over the counter |
| OTO | order-triggers-other |
| OTT | order-triggers-two |
| P/L | profit and loss |
| RFED | Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer (US) |
| RSI | relative strength index (indicator) |
| SaaS | software-as-a-service |
| SAR | stop and reverse |
| SEBI | Securities and Exchange Board of India |
| SFSA | Seychelles Financial Services Authority |
| SIPC | Securities Investor Protection Corporation |
| SMSF | Self-Managed Superannuation Fund |
| TSE | Tokyo Stock Exchange |
| TSX | Toronto Stock Exchange |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| US/USA | United States of America |
| VAT | value-added tax |
| VPS | virtual private server |
| VWAP | volume-weighted average price |