Notation and Entry

notation

A technical system of symbols used to represent special things.
- synonyms: notational system
A comment or instruction (usually added. )
- usage: "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope"
- synonyms: note, annotation
The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters. .

(n.) Literal or etymological signification.
(n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. especially, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity or operations.
(n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures or characters.
(n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures or characters.
(n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. especially, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity or operations.
(n.) Literal or etymological signification.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

entry

An item inserted in a written record.
The act of beginning something new.
- usage: "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line"
- synonyms: introduction, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling
A written record of a commercial transaction.
- synonyms: accounting entry, ledger entry
Something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition. )
- usage: "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal"
- synonyms: submission
Something that provides access (to get in or get out. )
- usage: "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral"
- synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entree
The act of entering.
- usage: "she made a grand entrance"
- synonyms: entrance, entering, ingress, incoming

(n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
(n.) The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
(n.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.
(n.) A putting upon record in proper form and order.
(n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
(n.) That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
(n.) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Entry is the point at which a trader gets into a position in the market.