Wednesday, February 10, 2021

CPT - Abbreviations and Acronyms

Hi Everyone!
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My Abbreviations and Acronyms I use in videos, emails and on the Dashboards 

KRUMS - Refers to making little profits on every trade ... hitting singles vs trying to always hit home runs
UCPTD - Upgraded CPT Dashboard
CPT - Core Position Trading
CCW - Covered Call Write ... or Writing a Covered Call
CSP - Cash Secured Put ... or Selling a Cash Secured Put
CCW+DIV Capture - refers to me buying a stock to write a covered call while trying to collect a dividend distribution as well
STWTJE  - Seeing the World Thru My Eyes ... it's like you taking a peek over my shoulder .. I'm showing you my world thru my eyes.
WDJT - What Does John Think ... of your PaperGrade Trade ... you submit a tradeI give you the 'What does John think' treatment.
CoC% gain - Cash on Cash % gain on the money invested ... we invest $1000 and make 10% that's 10% Cash on Cash % made
CoC$ gain -  Cash on Cash $ gain on the money invested ... we invest $1000 and make $100 that's $100 Cash on Cash $ made
IST - If Shares are taken ... as in if my shares are taken this is my profit
ISNT - If Shares are not taken ... as in if my shares are not taken this is my profit
BB - Buy Back an option ... as in "the stock has fallen so Im going to BB this option and do another)
X - as in ... I bought the shares at $57x ... the X represents the change in the trade ... as in I don't know the exact $57.xx
A_DIV$ - Annual Dividend dollar amount
A_DIV% -   Annual Dividend % amount based on the stock current share price
Q_DIV (% - $)same as above ... just Quarterly
DIV? - means do they pay a dividend during my trade?
DIV$ - how much per Quarter (I don't use the Q here because it's during a trade which is 30 days so its assumed it's NOT all year)
ROI - Return on Investment ... sometime they call this Return on Option (as in money invested) I rarely use this
S$ - Current Stock Price
O$ - Option price
R$ - Real Money or Intrinsic Value
TV - TimeValue or Extrinsic Value
RT$P - Real Time Stock Price
BUYSTOCK$ - I bought the stock
BUTSTOCKCSP  - I was assigned the stock via a Cash Secured Put where I was assigned the shares
ASSIGNED - Sometimes I've used this (same as above)
-20% 1ST HALF or 1/2 - Its common for traders to BUY BACK an option if an option falls 1/2 in the 1ST half of the contract
-10% 2ND HALF - its common to BUY BACK an option if the option is 1/10 the price you were to pay in the 2nd half of the trade
SYM - Stock symbol
EX_Date - a company's Ex-Dividend date
ER - refers to Earnings Report
KC - Keltner Channel
KC MID - the Keltner Channel MID line or the middle line of the 3
B&H - is referred as Buy and Hold ... as in 'this stock is apart of my B&H portfolio same for B/H 
PREM - Premium ... we get for selling premium 
PREM$ - the premium in dollar amount
PREM% - the % the premium represents of the trade (rarely use this)
% - shorthand for percentage ... as in ' I made this % on this $5000 invested
MAX PROFIT - refers to the max profit of our trade ... if I do a 30 day CCW making $1 in prem and $1 and stock move ... my MAX PROFIT for this trade is $1+$1=$2 ... MAX PROFIT is the total max we make on a selling premium trade.
ATM - At The Money
OTM - Out of The Money
ITM - In The Money
NTM - Near The Money

FFTY - The ETF that mimics' the IDB 50 (Investors Business Daily)

ST50 - List of the BEST 50 stocks trading now based on Technicals and Fundamentals

IDB50 - Investors Business Daily 50 Top Stocks for the week


Until next time, I wish you the very Best In Trading!
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Regards,
John G
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