What does 'lol', etc. mean?" The following are acronyms you will commonly find in most chat forums, including ours, as well as a few that you will find almost exclusively in trading chat rooms.

afk    Away From Keys
B    Brandon
bbiab    Be Back In A Bit
b/c    because
b/e    breakeven
bbl    Be Back Later
brb    Be Right Back
btw    By The Way
BASSAR    Buy at Support, Sell at Resistance
CCI    Commodity Channel Index
cp    Continuation Pattern
cs    Candlestick
dt    Daytrade
ema    Exponential Moving Average
ES    SP500 EMini Futures Symbol
hod    High of Day
gm    Good Morning
imho    In My Humble Opinion
imo    In My Opinion
ird    Inside Range Day
lod    Low of Day
lol    Laughing Out Loud
lmao    Laughing My A$$ Off
ma    Moving Average
np    No Problem
NQ    Nasdaq 100 EMini Futures Symbol
nrd    Narrow Range Day
o/n    Overnight
r/r or r:r    Reward/Risk
roflol    Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud
rs    Relative Strength
sma    Simple Moving Average
s/r    Support/Resistance
sw    Swingtrade
T    Toni
T &S    Time and Sales
ty    Thank You
tyvm    Thank You Very Much
wrd    Wide Range Day
YM    Mini-sized Dow Symbol
yw    You're Welcome
wrd    Wide Range Day
<g>    *Grin*
=)    *Smile*
=(    *Frown*
;)    *Wink*
=P    *Sticking out tongue*

In addition to acronymns, folks often wonder "What is the trout?" On occassion, someone in the room will get "trouted." This refers to an action command that is built into mIRC, whereby if you right click on someone's name and look at the bottom of the command list you will find a command called "slap!" If you were to get trouted it would look like this:

* Toni slaps member around a bit with a large trout

We can only figure that the mIRC programmer had a bit too much time on his hands... As a result, troutings in the room commonly occur after-hours or when a moderator is feeling particularly bored. =) Hmmm.. maybe I shouldn't have told you how to trout someone..... lol

For those of you see "bok" posted in the room in the morning or into the close, we are NOT trying to imitate wildlife =) This is the Croatian term for both "Hello" and "Good-bye."