Hi Folks, a favor, please...
When you use an acronym or initialism, (SNAFU - Situation Normal, All F$%^ed Up - an acronym is a pronounceable word. An initialism is unpronounceable so one tends to pronounce each letter - MTS is one example), unless it is an extremely common one, please spell it out the first time you use it.
When ls7550 used MTS I had to struggle because the meaning, based on my own experience, was that he was talking Market Trend Signal but I knew that could not be correct so I was lost. After some thought I came to, Minimum Trade Stock, but I'm not sure that is correct.
A general rule of technical writing for manuals - which this often is - is to restate the underlying meaning every ten to fifteen times you use an acronym or initialism, but since we are posting, not constructing a whole technical manual, just one piece at a time, it is a good idea to do the less common ones in every post.
The style would be: "In the Financial Times (FT)..." and then just FT in the rest of the post. This way a newbie has it all in front of them and doesn't have to ask "What the f$%^...."
Thanks,
Allen
