Ordinary ICT Terms And Abbreviations

This list contains terms and abbreviations commonly used within the ICT community.

  • ADR - Average Daily Range
  • AMD - Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution
  • AMS - Advanced Market Structure
  • AOKZ - Asian Open Kill Zone
  • ATH - All-Time High
  • ATR - Average True Range
  • BE - Break Even
  • BISI - Buyside Imbalance Sellside Inefficiency
  • BPR - Balanced Price Range
  • BRK / BB - Breaker Block
  • BSL - Buyside Liquidity
  • CBDR - Central Bank Dealers Range
  • CBOT - Chicago Board of Trade
  • CE - Consequent Encroachment
  • CISD - Change in the State of Delivery
  • CME - Chicago Mercantile Exhange
  • COT - Commitment of Traders
  • DD - Drawdown
  • DOL - Draw on Liquidity
  • EQ - Equilibrium
  • EQH - Equal Highs
  • EQL - Equal Lows
  • ETH - Electronic Trading Hours
  • FOMC - Federal Open Market Committee
  • FS - Failure Swing
  • FVG - Fair Value Gap
  • HH - Higher High
  • HL - Higher Low
  • HRLR - High Resistance Liquidity Run
  • HTF - Higher Timeframe
  • IFVG - Inversion Fair Value Gap
  • IOFED - Institutional Order Flow Entry Drill
  • IPDA - Interbank Price Delivery Algorithm
  • IRB - Immediate Rebalance
  • ITH - Intermediate Term High
  • ITL - Intermediate Term Low
  • KZ - Killzone
  • LC -London Close
  • LCKZ - London Close Kill Zone
  • LH - Lower High
  • LL - Lower Low
  • LO - London Open
  • LOKZ - London Open Kill Zone
  • LP - Liqudity Pool
  • LRLR - Low Resistance Liquidity Run
  • LTF - Lower Timeframe
  • LTH - Long Term High
  • LTL - Long Term Low
  • LV - Liquidity Void
  • MB - Mitigation Block
  • MM - Market Maker
  • MMBM - Market Maker Buy Model
  • MMSM - Market Maker Sell Model
  • MMXM - Market Maker Model
  • MSS - Market Structure Shift
  • MT - Mean Treshold
  • NDOG - New Day Opening Gap
  • NFP - Nonfarm Payrolls
  • NWOG - New Week Opening Gap
  • NYO - New York Open
  • NYOKZ - New York Open Kill Zone
  • OB - Order Block
  • OHLC - Open, High, Low, Close
  • OLHC - Open, Low, High, Close
  • ORG - Opening Range Gap
  • OSOK - One Shot One Kill
  • OTE - Optimal Trade Entry
  • PA - Price Action
  • PB - Propulsion Block
  • PCH - Previous Cycle High
  • PCL - Previous Cycle Low
  • PD - Premium / Discount
  • PDA - Premium / Discount Array
  • PDH - Previous Day High
  • PDL - Previous Day Low
  • PMH - Previous Month High
  • PML - Previous Month Low
  • PO3 - Power of Three
  • POI - Point of Interest
  • PT - Profit Target
  • PWH - Previous Week High
  • PWL - Previous Week Low
  • PXH - Previous X High
  • PXL - Previous X Low
  • RB - Rejection Block
  • RDRB - Redelivered Rebalance
  • RN - Round Number
  • RR - Risk / Reward
  • RTH - Regular Trading Hours
  • SB - Silver Bullet
  • SH - Stop Hunt
  • SIBI - Sellside Imbalance Buyside Inefficiency
  • SL - Stop Loss
  • SMR - Smart Money Reversal
  • SMT - Smart Money Technique/Smart Money Tool
  • SSL - Sellside Liquidity
  • STDV - Standard Deviation
  • STH - Short Term High
  • STL - Short Term Low
  • TGIF - Thank God It’s Friday
  • TP - Take Profit
  • TS - Turtle Soup
  • VB - Vacuum Block
  • VI - Volume Imbalance
  • WDYS - What Do You See