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LAST UPDATE: 20230607 20230416 20230401 20220518 20220113 20220105 20211226 20211222 20211214 20211129 20210901 20210818 20210805 20210804 20210711 20210702 20210701 20210609 20210419 20210322 20210224 20210122 20210119 20210105 20210104 20210101 20201226 20201202 20201119 20201111 20201103 20201031 20201021 20200721 Local Path: "C:\DAN\Budget\Fidelity\Retirement\On_Line\Acronyms.txt" Web Path: https://www.dansher.com/USD_fyi/Acronyms.txt More On-Line Financial Glossaries: http://www.morningstar.com/invglossary/Default.aspx https://www.investopedia.com/dictionary/ http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/voc/3 https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MTOE https://mlpguy.com/glossary/ [energy related terms] https://www.morningstar.com/articles/679118/article COOL: If you are viewing this file on-line, then your web browser MAY allow you to highlight a web link above or below, then right-click to open it. NO TYPING! ADR = American Depository Receipt = foreign companies traded in USD. AFFO = Adjusted Funds From Operations AGI = Artificial General Intelligence ARPU = Average Profits Per User ASIC = Application-Specific Integrated Circuit AUM = Assets Under Management A/V = Audio/Video equipment, design, etc. AVOD = Ad-supported video on demand (e.g., ROKU) BOJ = Bank of Japan BRICS = Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa as an economic force capex = Capital Expenditure (e.g., building a new manufacturing plant) CAGR = Compound Annual Growth Rate CEF = Closed End Funds https://seekingalpha.com/article/4287662-learn-cefs-getting-started https://seekingalpha.com/article/4289607-learn-cefs-searching-cef-aristocrats https://seekingalpha.com/article/4291471-learn-cefs-generate-distributable-cash COT = Commitment Of Traders https://seekingalpha.com/article/4307677-technically-speaking-cot-positioning-volatility-oil-dollar-rates-q3-2019 DaaS = Desktop as a Service. DaaS is generally Preferred over VDI. Citrix DaaS and Microsoft Azure (Cloud Services) are often combined. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MB86NfvkaY DCF = Discounted Cash Flow OR: Distributable Cash Flow EBITDA = Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization. ECB = European Central Bank EIPs = Ethereum Improvement Proposals See reference articles: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4444670-ethereum-a-deconstruction-of-crypto-supply https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1 EPS = Earnings Per Share ETF = Exchange Traded Fund ETN = Exchange Traded Note ETP = Exchange Traded Product FCAS = Frequency Control Ancillary Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_services_(electric_power) FDIC = Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation https://www.fdic.gov/ FOMC = Federal Open Market Committee ("The Fed") FOMO = Fear Of Missing Out [on future gains] Forex = Foreign Exchange [Markets] FSD = Full Self Driving [autonomous vehicle] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4387848-tesla-secret-sauce-for-valuation-strong-buy-rating FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt GAAP = Generally Accepted Accounting Principles See: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-analysis/062716/gaap-vs-nongaap-which-should-you-consider-evaluation.asp GOFO = GOld FOrward offered rate; The dollar interest rate minus the interest rate on lending gold. See: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4334938-gold-market-be-to-snap-watch-gofo HODL = usually pronounced “hoddle” — simply means to buy and hold for the long term, no matter what the market is doing. Bitcoin fans have even retroactively turned HODL into an acronym that stands for “Hold On for Dear Life.” IaaS = Infrastructure-as-a-Service (e.g., MSFT Cloud) IOT = the Internet of Things IPO = Initial Public Offering [of a brand new stock] ISM = Institute for Supply Management https://www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org/ MACD = Moving Average Convergence Divergence "An indicator of momentum calculated by subtracting the 26-day exponential moving average of a security's price from the 12-day exponential moving average. Tech analysts calculate a 9-day exponential moving average of the MACD to trace price movements and determine buy and sell signals." MLP = Master Limited Partnership (e.g., EPD & ET) http://www.morningstar.com/invglossary/master_limited_partnership-mlp.aspx MPT = Modern Portfolio Theory MTOE = Million Tons of Oil Equivalent NFT = Non Fungible Token - A special type of digital asset; Usually art https://opensea.io/ https://seekingalpha.com/article/4476817-nfts-tokens-crypto-high-risk-reward NIBT = Net Income Before Tax OTT = Any A/V device (e.g., ROKU) "On The Top" of a TV set. P/E = Profit to Earnings Ratio PIPE = Private Investment in Public Equity (e.g., NKLA). PoS = Proof of Stake in the Crypto space. PoW = Proof of Work in the Crypto space. QoQ = Quarter over Quarter QUANT = A proprietary evaluation process that grades a stock by five factors: Value, Growth, Profitability, Momentum and EPS Revisions. More info: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4263303-quant-ratings-and-factor-grades-faq ROA = Return On Assets ROE = Return On Equity RO40 = Rule Of 40 https://www.thesaascfo.com/rule-of-40-saas/ SAAR = Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate SaaS = Software as a Service (Subscription via Internet. e.g., Palantir PLTR) SBC = Stock-Based Compensation of Employees (e.g., Palantir PLTR). https://seekingalpha.com/article/4438588-palantir-stock-based-comp-not-necessarily-negative SG&A = Selling, General and Administrative Expenses (aka SGA or SAG) SIPC = Securities Investor Protection Corporation https://www.sipc.org/ SPAC = Special Purpose Acquisition Company (e.g., NKLA) https://www.usfunds.com/investor-library/frank-talk-a-ceo-blog-by-frank-holmes/what-are-spacs-and-why-is-everyone-talking-about-them-right-now/ TAAS = Transportation as a Service TIPS = Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities V2V = Vehicle to Vehicle communications. V2X = Vehicle to Infrastructure communications. VDI = Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. DaaS is generally Preferred over VDI VIX = CBOE Volatility Index [see .\VIX_fyi.txt] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIX ZEV = Zero Emissions Vehicle [e.g., All-Electric like Tesla] Operating Ratio: A company's operating expenses as a percentage of revenue. Class A & B type stocks: "Class A shares refer to a classification of common stock that was traditionally accompanied by more voting rights than Class B shares." https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/classashares.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/classbshares.asp NOTE: The "ALPHA" metric attempts to quantify if a fund is adequately compensating investors for its volatility level (as expressed by its beta). Higher alpha values are always better. The "BETA" metric measures an investment's volatility. A high-beta fund would be expected to lose more than the index during market downdrafts. A neutral value for Beta would be 1.0 (US T-Bills). Incredible # of terms (contango?) & acronymns that need explaining: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4129989-vxx-vix-gearing-surge?ifp=0 "Contango" is a situation where the futures price (or forward price) of a commodity is higher than the anticipated spot price at maturity of the futures contract. In a contango situation, hedgers (commodity producers and commodity users) or arbitrageurs/speculators (non-commercial investors), are willing to pay more [now] for a commodity at some point in the future than the actual expected price of the commodity [at that future time]. This may be due to people's desire to pay a premium to have the commodity in the future rather than paying the costs of storage and carry costs of buying the commodity today. 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