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.

Learn stock market lingo for online chat rooms.

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