ICT SMART MONEY CONCEPTS
ABBREVIATIONS
AMD – Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution
ART – Advanced Range Theory
ATH – All Time High
ATL – All Time Low
BAG – Breakaway Gap
BISI – Buyside Imbalance / Sell Side Inefficiency
BMS – Break of Market Structure
BPR – Balanced Price Range
BRK – Breaker (+BRK = Bullish Breaker / -BRK = Bearish Breaker )
BSL – Buy Side / Buy Stop Liquidity
BE – Break Even (Moving your stop to the place where you entered the trade)
BOS – Break of Structure
CE – Consequent Encroachment
CSD – Change in the State of Delivery
CSD – Change in the State of Delivery
CME – Chicago Mercantile Exchange
DO – Delivery Origin
DOL – Draw on Liquidity
DH – Daily High
DL – Daily Low
DR – Dealing Range
EO – Engineered Origin
EQ – Equilibrium
EQH – Equal High
EO – Engineered Origin
EQ – Equilibrium
EQH – Equal High
EQL – Equal Low
ERL – External Range Liquidity
ETR – Efficiently Traded Range
FPOL – First Point of Liquidity
FVG – Fair Value Gap
FVFB – Fair Value For Buying
FVFS – Fair Value For Selling
FA – Fundamental Analysis
HL – Higher Low
HH – Higher High
HTF – High Time Frame
HOD – High of Day
IOF – Institutional Order Flow
IOFED – Institutional Order Flow Entry Drill
IPDA – Interbank Price Delivery Algorithm
IDM – Inducement
ITH/ITL – Intermediate High/Low
IRL – Internal Range Liquidity
KZ – Killzone
LO – London Open
LOKZ – London Kill Zone
LP – Liquidity Pool
LQ – Liquidity
LV – Liquidity Void
LL – Lower Low
LH – Lower High
LTF – Low Time Frame
LOD – Low of Day
MA – Moving Average
MB – Mitigation Block
MH – Monthly High
ML – Monthly Low
MMxM – Market Maker Sell/Buy Model
MS – Market Structure
MSB – Market Structure Break
MSS – Market Structure Shift
MT – Mean Threshold
M-SL – Manual SLNYKZ – New York Kill Zone
NYO – New York Open
OB – Order Block (+OB = Bullish Order block / -OB = Bearish Order block )
OF – Order Flow
OLR – Opposing Liquidity Run
ONS – Overnight Session
OPEX – Options Expiry
OTE – Optimal Trade Entry
PA – Price Action
PB – Propulsion Block
PDH – Previous Daily High
PDL – Previous Daily Low
PMH – Previous Monthly High
PML – Previous Monthly Low
PSH – Previous Session High
PSL – Previous Session Low
PWH – Previous Weekly High
PWL – Previous Weekly Low
POI – Point of Interest
PO3 – Power of 3
QM – Quasimodo
RJB – Rejection Block
RR – Risk to Reward
RRR – Retracement Reaction Rally
RTB – Return to Breaker
RTO – Return to Order Block
SH – Stop Hunt
S/R – Support & Resistance
SIBI – Sell Side Imbalance / Buy Side Inefficiency
SL – Stop Loss
SMR – Smart Money Reversal
SMS – Shift Market Structure
SMT – Smart Money Technique / Tool
SO – Swing Origin
SP – Stops Purged
SSL – Sell Side/Sell Stop Liquidity
TA – Technical Analysis
TDO – True Daily Open
TDC – True Daily Close
TP – Take Profit
TL – Trendline
TSBM – Turtle Soup Buy Model
TSSM – Turtle Soup Sell Model
VB – Vacuum Block
WDYS – What Do You See?
Higher Highs
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