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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SA = Summer Analyst, IBD= Investment Banking Division GS= Goldman Sachs MS= Morgan Stanley ML= Merrill Lynch, JP= JP Morgan, BX= Blackstone
Just doing ones I can remember being stumped by back when I just started looking at stuff online.
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.
WACC
WACC = Weighted Average Cost of Capital BB = Bulge Bracket MBB = Mckinsey, Bain, BCG HF = Hedge Fund PE = Private Equity VC = Venture Cap
MBB took me forever to figure out.
lol me too. I was like middle bulge bracket?
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/xtracker/type/faq
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/faq
What is TMT?
Technology, Media, Telecom - group within IBD.
MM?
Middle Market
FT?
Full-Time
Full Time as opposed to SA which is an internship
I like this game.....
BTU MW Spark Spread Crack Spead Gen Stack Phy Fin Pool
DTF
DSL
HAGS
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---??
close enough and very very good... sb for you
Way to tie it up Monty...not cool...
DTF - Down to fuck
DSL - Dick Sucking Lips
HAGS - Have a good summer
I'll accept your SB's with grace
HAGS - Herpes, Aids, Gonorrhea, Syphilis
daddy DOES NOT like
4H
(hint:related)
FNG is my favorite
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.
Actually 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...
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.
What does MM (Middle Market) really mean?
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.
What does PM stand for?
PM - Private Market of Performance Materiality if you work in audit.
PM = private message or portfolio manager most likely for WSO
PM - Private Market of Performance Materiality if you work in audit.
PM - Private Market of Performance Materiality if you work in audit.
Acronym Question GEM (Originally Posted: 08/02/2007)
BoD called a GEM. What is GEM? I think it's a shareholders meeting but does anyone know what exactly GEM stands for?
PM = portfolio manager would make more sense given the context of wso.
Not sure what they are referring to. I was under the impression that GEM stood for Global Emerging Markets.
looks like a typo. extraordinary general meeting?
E = Equityholders? (though that should be two separate words...) General Equityholders' Meeting?
Need some acronym help... (Originally Posted: 03/23/2010)
Hi, I'm new to the site and very confused by several of the acronyms. I'm trying to read as much as possible, but some of the forum jargon is over my head. Is there any way y'all could post a dictionary/acronym index for the WSO newbies out there?
Thanks a ton. Love the site as well
Mike
For a newbie might I suggest the search function, a wonderful tool that answers many questions prevsiously thought unasked.
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/acronyms
Use the search function Michael.
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.
you can also check out the FAQ: //www.wallstreetoasis.com/faq
About the acronyms? (Originally Posted: 12/10/2013)
Hii All
I am a newbie here. I really enjoy reading all the post but there are so many acronyms that I don't know such as BB, SA, and such. Anyone care to explain them to me? Thanks a lot!
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/finance-dictionary
Thanks a lot!
Acronyms Galore (Originally Posted: 02/19/2007)
Hey everyone, I'm a 1st year EE (electrical engineering major) at UT with hopes of going into investment banking in the near future. I find most of the info on this site to be very insightful as well as informational, but there are more acronyms used here than one would hear in a hospital emergency room. Where can I go to learn this banking vernacular? Thanks
nevermind. i just noticed the FAQs...
What does SB mean?
Silver Banana
thanks!
MO and FO?
https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/gs-operations-role-should-i-take…
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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