/second ToS. Best platform to learn on, and apparently to trade on too. It's the only trading platform/service I've found whose trial gives full, free, unlimited time access to the entire platform, with $100,000 worth of virtual money to practice trading. It's analysis tools are great to learn with. The only catch is that data is delayed a bit.

Regarding stick save, here's a cool vid of it in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JEIK5FDr....

Could anybody help me out?

What are:
DWR
ST
STCC
LOC
CC LOC
LT ST T data

These are all contained in the following thread if you need context...
http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/ak....

Most of those are just Nothing's shorthand, but some belong in the Acronyms list:
DWR ::= Discount Window Rate (the "other" rate that the FOMC manipulates)
ST ::= Short Term
STCC ::= Short Term Commercial Credit
LOC ::= Line(s) of Credit
CC LOC ::= Commercial Credit Line(s) of Credit
LT ST T data ::= Long Term Short Term Treasury Data (in this context: The IRX hit 0.3% today...that low goes back a long ways, my data runs out in the 80s...anyone have LT ST T data to see when it was last this low? LT ST T data means "long term data about short term T-bills")

Iron Condor? Iron Butterfly?

http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/ak....

iron condor aka ic and iron butterfly are spread plays with options

for example: To setup an iron condor, the options trader sells a lower strike out-of-the-money put, buys an even lower strike out-of-the-money put, sells a higher strike out-of-the-money call and buys another even higher strike out-of-the-money call. This results in a net credit to put on the trade.

from www.theoptionsguide.com

how about "squicked"?

i looked this up in the urban dictionairy....#2 sounds most likely given KDs early references to the ocular penentration act....but then in the color coded warning for signs of distress in the market poster made under squick there was a pic of a little girl eating what looked like a plate of poo....confusing for the newb.

from urban dictionary:

2. squick 173 up, 94 down

A term originated around 1994 in the alt.tasteless newsgroup as a response to the question "What is the sound of a good skull ****ing?" The term was quickly picked up by the alt.****.the.skull.of.jes us group and used primarily within Subgenius circles as a verb meaning "To **** someone in the skull." The term was co-opted by the BDSM community some time latter, and its original meaning is often overlooked or ignored.

It's not often that I get to squick, but since I've become a mortician it is much easier.

by squidflakes Mar 18, 2004 email it
3. Squick 84 up, 42 down

Fanfiction/Fandom term. A pairing or situation that one finds utterly repulsive.

Trebec: The Answer is 'Squicked'.
Contestant #1: Alex, what is the sound of a good skull ****ing?
Trebec: Correctamundo! It's the sound of the soft, slimy eye material getting squished as the socket is penetrated. Or, what is about to happen to the global economy as a result of the tsunami of toxic debt unleashed on the world the past decade.

What is the syndicated money business?

http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/ak.... (from Nothing's post about 1/3 down the page)

Edit: Nothing explained it about a quarter of the way down this page:

http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/ak....

Quote:

Syndicated money is pooled private money that makes bets, not through share purchase, but as direct investment. It is non-fund money, that is in the same markets as fund money.

What is the definition of a 'handle'?

As commonly used here, "handle" refers to the leading digit or digits of a number (it's a slightly subjective term, and it's not used very consistently). For example, if SPX is trading at 1350 and someone expects a drop of 51 or more points, they might say they "expect it to be trading with a 12 handle soon." Similarly, if AMZN is trading at 85 and is expected to rise by 5-14 points, one might anticipate a "9 handle." Sometimes "handle" refers to all but the least significant digit, so a drop in SPX from 1351 to 1336 might produce the statement, "SPX lost two handles."

Can anyone sxplain the term "bond Market Dislocation" as referred to in the Market ticker video today.

...

I've got 2:
SOMA?
/ER2?

/ER2 refers to the Russell 2000 e-mini futures contract. You can't trade an "ER2" all by itself; the actual futures contract has a month/year expiration. For example, the June 08 contract is ER2M08 and the December 09 contract is ER2Z09.

We refer to it as "the ER2" because it is always the Russell 2000 e-mini. As the individual contracts expire, the month/year reference portion changes, but it is always the ER2.

You have the same situation with the S&P emini, (the ES), the DOW emini, (the YM) and the NASDAQ 100 emini, (the NQ). There are other index futures traded as well, but these four are the most liquid.

Thanks! Karl frequently refers to SOMA when discussing FED actions. What is SOMA?

SOMA - System Open Market Account

http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fe....

Gratzie!

what do these terms mean?
moonbat
jawbone
alphabet soup

Thanks!

These are "TF-Specific Definitions"
Alphabet soup refers to the various programs, (such as the TAF) the Fed has created to provide short-term loans to member banks.

To jawbone is to attempt to influence the market by what you say. About the only people with the power to jawbone are the Fed chairman, the various Fed governors and the SecTreas. CNBS airheads occasionally engage in jawboning; in fact, the argument could be made that CNBS is all about jawboning.

"boat naming"?

http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/ak....

"boat naming"?

What you're gonna name your boat you're gonna buy with all the money you're gonna make when the market does what you _really_ want.

or equivalent BS such as the house you're gonna build, farm you're gonna buy, Maserati, etc

Lamborghini

FFIEC = The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) was established on March 10, 1979, pursuant to title X of the Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978 (FIRA), Public Law 95-630. In 1989, title XI of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) established The Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC) within the Examination Council.
The Council is a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and to make recommendations to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions.
The Council was given additional statutory responsibilities by section 340 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to facilitate public access to data that depository institutions must disclose under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 (HMDA) and the aggregation of annual HMDA data, by census tract, for each metropolitan statistical area (MSA). The Council has established, in accordance with the requirement of the statute, an advisory State Liaison Committee composed of five representatives of state supervisory agencies. http://www.ffiec.gov/about.htm #### I had never heard of this one before.

What's the '2 year/5 year/30 year butterfly spread'? Obviously it refers to the 2yr, 5yr, and 30yr Treasuries, but I'm not sure how he's getting one single spread number out of three assets.

Referenced frequently at:
http://acrossthecurve.com/?p=1842

THANK YOU Foxy, It's been a real help.