Butkus Code List


In as much as we are aware of the many new members to the BB and are further aware that many of messages seem to contain "code", we thought we'd offer this list of some of the more common codes. Hopefully this will be of help and promote a clearer understanding of the content of some of the messages.

BB Shorthand

A/D        Advance Decline Line
Accum/Dist Accumulation-Distribution ratings from DG, IBD
ADV        Average Daily Volume
BO         Break Out
BTW        By The Way
CWX        Software Index
D-LITE     OLR for D*
Damn Cat   HE, HIM, HIMSELF....Butkus
DG         Daily Graphs...published by Wm. O'Neil
DL         Down Load
DMA        Day Moving Average...ie:50 DMA
DTL        Down Trend Line
EPS        Earnings Per Share
ERG        EPS-RS-Grp. RS
FISH       Fabulously Intelligent, Sensitive, Human
FWIW       For What It's Worth
GOLF       Good Old Lying Fellow
Green Book Nasdaq Editon of Daily Graphs
HMOCRFFN   Horan's Market Oscillationator, Cat Repair and Fishing Forecast
           Newsletter
HWUTRHSOC  Half Way Up The Right Hand Side Of Cup
Iandex     Market "Health" Index
IBD        Investors Business Daily...published by Wm. O'Neil
IIX        Internet Index
IMHO       In My Humble Opinion
LSQ        Least Square method of making Trading Channels
LW         Live Wire Software - Real time charting
MF         Money Flow Line - Chaiken 21 day
MFI        Mutual Fund Index....published in IBD
MSH        Morgan Stanley Technology Index
Mulkey     Only one at Telescan who actually knows anything
Nude Review  - Meeting place for "Savvy" Canslim Investors
NDX        Nasdaq 100 (big cap - mainly techs)
NH         New High
NL         New Low
O          Wm. O'Neil
OB         Over Bought
OBV        On Balance Volume
OS         Over Sold
PSE        Pacific Stock Exch. Technology Index
Rainbow    OLR for D* (Choice of champions)
RS         Relative Strength
RUT        Russell 2000 (2000 small cap stocks)
SL         Stop Loss
SOB        Son Of Butkus
SOB's      Um do I need  to Splain?
SOX        Semiconductor Index
SS         Spread Sheet
Stimpson   Who knows?
T*         Telescan
TA         Technical Analysis
TC         Trading Channel
TL         Trend Line
UL         Up Load
UTL        Up Trend Line
WIN        Woodward Investment Newsletter
WIN-D      OLR for D* - for those that don't care enough to use Rainbow
WSJ        Wall Street Journal
YTD        Year To Date

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