Trading Glossary

The strength gauge for a trend (0-100), without its direction.

Any crypto other than Bitcoin.

The measure of average volatility, useful for placing stops.

Testing a strategy on historical price data before risking capital.

The first and leading cryptocurrency, the market’s benchmark.

The signals of structural continuation (BOS) and reversal (CHoCH).

The graphical representation of price over a given period.

An order block that failed and had its polarity flip.

Price exiting a key zone, a signal of movement.

The two directional biases: bullish (bull) and bearish (bear).

A derivative product that replicates an asset’s price without owning it.

The indicator that measures whether the market is ranging or about to trend.

Opening and closing your positions within the same day.

Decentralized finance: financial services without a middleman.

A decentralized (DEX) or centralized (CEX) exchange platform.

Executing your plan without giving in to emotion — the trader’s real skill.

A disagreement between price and an oscillator, a sign of exhaustion.

The scatter chart where each FOMC member anonymously projects the future rate.

The maximum drop in capital from a peak.

Trading a position bigger than your capital, by borrowing it.

The average expected gain (or loss) per trade over the long run.

A price imbalance left behind by a move that happened too fast.

A trap breakout that reverses right after luring traders in.

The two monetary policy stances: restrictive (hawkish) or accommodative (dovish).

The 12-member committee that sets the US policy rate, 8 times a year.

The fear of missing a move, which pushes you to enter too late.

A gap in the chart, where price jumped without trading in between.

The art of limiting your losses to survive and last.

A bot that places orders in a grid at regular intervals within a range.

The programmed slowdown of bitcoin creation, roughly every 4 years.

Opening an opposite position to protect against an existing risk.

Any zone where price has only moved in one direction.

The logbook where you record your trades to improve objectively.

The time windows when institutional volume enters the market.

The forced closure of a leveraged position when margin is exhausted.

How easily an asset can be bought or sold without moving its price.

The standardized unit of position size in Forex.

A momentum indicator based on the gap between two moving averages.

The capital locked up as collateral to open a leveraged position.

The protocol that lets an AI like Claude control other software.

The most widely used trading platform among CFD/Forex brokers.

The order block left by a failed swing, turned into a flipped zone.

The strength and speed of a price move.

The average price over N periods, which smooths out the trend.

The last accumulation candle before an impulsive move.

The programming language for TradingView indicators and strategies.

The smallest standard price movement of a currency pair.

The set of written rules that governs every decision.

The set of levers a central bank uses to steer inflation and employment.

Reading the market from raw price alone, without indicators.

A company that hands capital to traders who pass its challenge.

A temporary retreat in price within an established trend.

A trendless market that oscillates between a floor and a ceiling.

The relationship between what you risk and what you’re aiming for.

Price returning to a broken level to confirm it.

Statistically frequent pullback levels (38.2%, 50%, 61.8%).

An oscillator from 0 to 100 measuring price overextension.

An ultra short-term style: lots of trades, small gains.

The collective mood of market participants: fear or greed.

The three major time windows that set the rhythm for volume and volatility.

The precise, predefined configuration that authorizes an entry.

The gap between the expected price and the price actually obtained.

An approach that follows the footprints of large institutional players.

The gap between the buy price and the sell price — the cost of entry.

The order that automatically closes a losing trade at a set threshold.

The reading of swing highs and lows that defines the current trend.

The price zones where supply or demand violently took control.

The price zones where the market tends to bounce or stall.

Capturing a move over several days to weeks.

How much to commit to a trade to risk only a set percentage.

The order that locks in gains at a defined price target.

The rate at which a central bank lends to commercial banks — the “rent on money.”

The overall direction of price: uptrend, downtrend, or neutral.

The loss of emotional control after a loss, which triggers a chain of mistakes.

Trading the failure of a breakout — the anti-Turtles strategy from 1995.

The duration represented by each candle (M1, H1, Daily…).

The size and speed of an asset’s price swings.

The quantity of assets traded over a period — the market’s conviction.

The histogram that shows at which PRICES volume was traded.

The list of assets you actively track for your setups.

Anthropic’s command-line tool: Claude in your terminal, able to act, not just respond.

macOS’s gatekeeper: it blocks the first launch of apps from outside the App Store — right-click → Open to get past it.

The software that manages a code’s version history and lets you download it.

The check that confirms everything is properly connected before you start working.

macOS’s package manager: software installs with a single brew command.

The use of artificial intelligence in trading — a catch-all term covering four very different families of tools.

The artificial intelligence trained on massive amounts of text, able to understand and generate language and code.

Models that learn patterns in data instead of following rules written by hand.

The Microsoft Store’s installation format: an isolated app with automatic updates.

The environment that runs JavaScript on your PC, outside the browser.

Node.js’s package manager, which installs a project’s dependencies with a single command.

Public source code: anyone can read it, verify it, and improve it.

The “technical door” an application opens to be controlled from the outside, like TradingView by Claude.

The request you give the AI; the more precise it is, the better the result.

An automated AND regulated investment service that manages a portfolio based on your profile.

The program that places orders on your behalf by following rules you’ve set — and the favorite word of scammers.

The interface where you control your computer by typing commands instead of clicking.

Handing off the execution of a strategy to a program — fixed rules applied without hesitation or fatigue.

The list of folders where Windows looks for the commands you type in the terminal.

The Windows terminal, where you’ll type every command in the guide.

Windows’ official package manager: software installs with a single command.