Acronyms

We need a spot on this forum to look up acronyms. I have no idea what many of these stand for. In fact, within the last five minutes I saw SA and IBD. What are these? Senior Analyst and Investment Banking Division?

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Yeah I got stumped by a lot of them when I first joined. Same when I was in high school with my friends' text-lingo. I remember the hardest ones for me were: 

DLOD: Doing Lots of Drugs

SBBQ: Sex Barbeque

OMGB: Old Man Gang Bang

PSMD: Parents Suck Mad Dick

NMH: Need More Heroin

PMC: Prolapsing My Colon

LKAB: Lets Kill A Bum

MHIO: My Hole is Open

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*I don't take credit 4 this.

 

Full Time as opposed to SA which is an internship

I like this game.....

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 

I'm doing this without google

BTU--British Thermal Units?---measure of energy, used to standardize natty gas contracts (10,000 i believe)

MW-Megawatt

Spark Spread--Different between the price of power and natural gas

Crack Spread--Difference between price of finished product (Naptha, Gasoline, jet fuel, ect) and crude oil

Dark Spread---Price difference between power and coal

Gen Stack--Generation stack, shows the order that products will be used to generate power from least expensive to most expensive . If power usage goes down, the most expensive means of production will be taken off first.

Phy--Physical, as in Physical commodity trading

Fin-Financial, also known as paper--derivatives

Pool---??

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 
Gekko21I'm doing this without google

BTU--British Thermal Units?---measure of energy, used to standardize natty gas contracts (10,000 i believe)

MW-Megawatt

Spark Spread--Different between the price of power and natural gas

Crack Spread--Difference between price of finished product (Naptha, Gasoline, jet fuel, ect) and crude oil

Dark Spread---Price difference between power and coal

Gen Stack--Generation stack, shows the order that products will be used to generate power from least expensive to most expensive . If power usage goes down, the most expensive means of production will be taken off first.

Phy--Physical, as in Physical commodity trading

Fin-Financial, also known as paper--derivatives

Pool---??

close enough and very very good... sb for you

 
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Gekko21I'm doing this without google

BTU--British Thermal Units?---measure of energy, used to standardize natty gas contracts (10,000 i believe)

MW-Megawatt

Spark Spread--Different between the price of power and natural gas

Crack Spread--Difference between price of finished product (Naptha, Gasoline, jet fuel, ect) and crude oil

Dark Spread---Price difference between power and coal

Gen Stack--Generation stack, shows the order that products will be used to generate power from least expensive to most expensive . If power usage goes down, the most expensive means of production will be taken off first.

Phy--Physical, as in Physical commodity trading

Fin-Financial, also known as paper--derivatives

Pool---??

close enough and very very good... sb for you

Way to tie it up Monty...not cool...

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

DTF - Down to fuck

DSL - Dick Sucking Lips

HAGS - Have a good summer

I'll accept your SB's with grace

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

Actually, Happy...you cut your own throat. You gave me 110. Monty gave me 111......they just haven't shown up on the boards yet.

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 
happypantsmcgeeActually I have 111 too there big guy....guess all those brainteasers fried your brain

That's because Monty just gave it to you. I had 111 first.

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 
Gekko21
happypantsmcgeeActually I have 111 too there big guy....guess all those brainteasers fried your brain

That's because Monty just gave it to you. I had 111 first.

haha this has gotten kinda sad...

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

I was just thinking that and completely regret posting that comment, but I knew you had probably already read it so I couldn't remove it.

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 

You mean what's the actual definition of middle market? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=middle+market

If you mean other common meanings for the "mm" abbreviation in business? mm also stand for million, that's all I know.

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
 

Weird. I specifically searched "acronym" earlier and nothing meaningful turned up. However, "Acronyms" yields the aforementioned topic. I didn't think the search bar would be so specific. 'Preciate the help.

 

FO - front-office - "face-time" spots - trading and banking, directly dealing with clients and customers, the truly cash-generating/revenue-making gigs at a company MO - mid-office - supporting roles ala client support/client management, compliance BO - back-office - supporting roles, mostly operations - payroll, internal auditing, human resources

 

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