Below is a brief explanation of terms and references made within the stock market community.

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• Bears – When the market is moving in a downtrend.
• Bulls – When the market is moving in an uptrend.
• Candle – A form of measuring and displaying prices.
• Consolidation – The market is just trading sideways not up or down.
• EMA – Exponential Moving Average
• Heikin Ashi – Different style of candle but still displaying price movement
• KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid
• Long – To open a buy position hoping the price increases.
• MA – Moving average
• Pivot – Also known as support and resistance a level which the market might reverse from the current trend.
• Pip – or pips refereed to as single unit on the stock market $31.01 the .01 is one pip.
• Short – To open a sell position hoping the price falls
• Stop-loss – a level which the market will automatically close NOT GUARANTEED
• Trend – The market heading in a certain direction up or down.