Stock Market Web Lingo: Terms Found in Online Chat Rooms

Whether you follow the stock market on the news or the internet, or the stock market interests you enough to research articles on investing or following stock message boards or forums, eventually you may end up in a financial stock market chat room. To understand what the heck words are flying back and forth in those stock market flames, you need to know a few acronyms and punchy stock room chat room words to follow along some trains of though. Bull or bear, casual investor, or just someone wanting to hear what others are saying, you will find the following list of stock market expressions and lingo helpful in figuring out what a forum poster is saying. These mostly made up words are a must know vocabulary when visiting any bull or bear stock market chat room.

TPTB stands for "The Powers That Be"
This phrase refers to any group that holds power over the money system, from politicians, to the Federal Bank Reserves, to The Banking Industry, to CEO's, to monetary policy makers.

WTSHTF stands for "When The Shit Hits The Fan".
This could relate to anything from an economic collapse to a company going bust, to any kind of monetary breakdown that leads to a panic.

Sheeple stands for a combination of the words sheep and people.
It refers to a herd mentality. Masses of people brainwashed into believing whatever the media puppets say as being the truth. Sheeple are people that believe what ever authority figures say.

Sheepledom stands for a combination for the words sheeple and kingdom. Sheepledom is the country the masses of people live in.

Scroomed stands for a situation being both screwed and doomed.

TEOTWAWKI stands for The End Of The World As We Know It

PPT stands for Plunge Protection Team, The PPT would refer to the TPTB entities that can change interest rates, inject liquidity, and do other things to the world of finance to try to keep the stock market from crashing.

Da Boyz stands for the men who run wall street. Could be anyone from a company CEO to a Big brokerage House.

Buggy Whip refers to whips as practical weapons, and the weapon or defense against a paper money economic collapse is widely believed to be coins and precious metals. Some investors who fear an economic collapse hold gold or gold coins in their portfolio which they refer to as buggy whips.

PM's refers to precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum.

Uncle Ben is a chat room nickname that refers to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

Bear refers to a person who believes the stock market will go lower and/or the credit market will tighten. A bear believes the general economy will get worse than it is.

Bull refers to a person who believes the stock market will go higher and the credit market will loosen. A Bull believes the economy will get better than it is.

PPS stands for Price Per Share

SCALP refers to a quick stock trade for a small profit.

Head Fake refers to a stock price or the market in general heading in one direction, but really is an illusion as to how it will close at the end of the day. A head fake means the poster is suggesting the market will close in the opposite direction.

Flippers refers to people who buy property and intend to turn around and quickly sell it at a profit.

ROT stands for Rule Of Thumb. A person explaining how something works in general refers to the explanation as a ROT.

Pig refers to an overpriced stock market.

Bag Holders refers to people who got stuck holding investments that went down in value and don't look like the value will be restored anytime soon.

Cracked is a term that refers to a technical charting trend line being broken. It usually signifies that there will be a large gap downward.