Standard Acronyms You May Find on the Forum
This list will only grow if you submit acronyms you use or that need defining. I will up date this message, adding new acronyms as they are submitted to the list. It is always better to use the full words, but we know how much people like to type. A link at the bottom is supplied for stock and mutual fund symbols.
We don’t need all possible abbreviations just the ones used commonly on the forum. Two links at the bottom of the list will lead you to a bunch of standard web slang.
If you see mistakes or if there are alternative meaning please submit those to. I don't know much so I don't mind people telling me what I don't know.
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
AFU - Acronyms Frequently Used
Avacado - Swahili for...see
here
BB - Big Brother
BFO - Blinding Flash of the Obvious
BIL - Brother In-Law
BOHICA- Bend over, Here it Comes Again
BTW - By The Way
CFP - Certified Financial Planner
CLU - Chartered Life Underwriter
ChFC - Chartered Financial Consultant
CHP - Cocktail Hour Post
C Fund - Common Stock Index (S&P 500)
CC - Credit Card
DB - Defined Benefit
DC - Defined Contribution
DCA - Dollar Cost Averaging
DCM - Defenders of the Conventional Methology or Dont Care Much
DE - Differential Equations
DFA - Dimensional Fund Advisors
DH - Darling Husband (Hubby) is the nice version or D*** Husband
DH - vanguard DieHards, see diehards.org
DMT - Dirty Market Timer
DR - Downside Risk
DRIP - Dividend Reinvestment Plan
DW - Darling Wife is the nice version or D*** Wife
Dryer Sheets - See
here and
here
EBITDA - Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
EM - Emerging Markets
EMH - Efficient Market Hypothesis
EMT - Efficient Market Theory
ER - Early Retirement
ER - Expense Ratio
ETF - Exchange Traded Funds
F Fund - Fixed Income Index
FA - Financial Advisor
FI - Financially Independent
Fido - Fidelity
FIL - Father In-Law
FIRE - Financially Independent Retired Early (or T-Al's alternative: F*** It, Retire Early)
FT - Full Time
FUBAR - Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition (or words to that effect)
FWIW - For What It's Worth
G Fund - Government securities
Harvest Gold - Swahili for...see
here (small print)
HOTs - Higher Order Terms
I Fund - International Index
IIRC - If I Remember Correctly
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IOW - In other words
L Fund - Lifecycle funds (2040, 2030, 2020, 2010, Income)
LBOM - Living Below/Beneath Our Means
LBYM - Living Below/Beneath Your Means
LC - Large Cap stocks
LG - Largecap Growth stocks
LV - Largecap Value stocks
M* - Morningstar
MENSA - Making Elucidating Nonsense Sound Authentic
MF - Mutual Fund
MIL - Mother In-Law
MM - Money Market
NAV - Net Asset Value
nm - Never Mind
NW - Net Worth
NYDB - None of Your Damn Business
PDEs - Partial differential equations
PITA - Pain In The A$$
PM - Precious Metals, often stocks instead of physical
POV - Point Of View
PT - perpetual travel; perpetual traveler
PTJ - Part Time Job (normally considered a derogatory comment on this board)
RE - Real Estate
RE - Retired Early
REHP - Retire Early Home Page
ROFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My A$$ Off
ROR - Rate of return
S Fund - Small Capitalization Stock Index
SC - Small Cap stocks
SD - Standard Deviation
SG - Smallcap Growth stocks
SIL - Sister In-Law
SNAFU - Situation Normal, All 'Fouled' Up
SV - Smallcap Value stocks
SWR - Safe Withdrawal Rate
TIPS - Treasury Inflation Protected Securities
TLA - Three Letter Acronym
TSP - Thrift Savings Plan (The 401K-like plan for the federal government and the military)
USD - US Dollar
VA - Variable Annuities
VG - Vanguard
YDBIYDB - Your Damn Business Is Your Damn Business
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
YTD - Year To Date
Some standard investment acronyms:
Terms starting with Acronyms
Link to a lot of standard net slang:
http://members.aol.com/nigthomas/alphabet.txt
If you think it might be a stock or fund symbol try:
Yahoo! Finance
If you have a suggestion for a better format let me know.
Thanks for all the contributions.
Jeb
ER Forum "Acronymonialist"
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