Glossary
Trading and platform terms
- ActionStrategy
- A node that opens, reduces, or closes a position when its gate fires.
- BacktestPlatform
- Running a strategy over historical candles to evaluate it.Backtesting
- BotPlatform
- A deployed, running instance of a strategy.
- BranchPlatform
- A parallel line of a strategy's history, for trying changes without losing the original.
- Calmar ratioMetrics
- Return divided by max drawdown — reward per unit of worst-case pain.
- CandleTrading
- One time period of price as open, high, low, close (OHLC). The engine steps one candle at a time.
- CommissionTrading
- The fee charged per trade, modeled in backtests and paper runs.
- CommitPlatform
- A saved, versioned snapshot of a strategy you can return to.
- ConditionStrategy
- A node that emits true/false, gating actions.Conditions
- Custom nodeStrategy
- A user-authored node (compiled to WASM) for logic the built-ins don't cover.
- DeployPlatform
- Publishing a strategy as a running bot (paper or live).
- DrawdownMetrics
- The largest peak-to-trough drop in equity — a measure of pain.
- EdgeStrategy
- A connection passing one node's output into another's input.
- EntryTrading
- Opening a position.Enter Long node
- Equity curveMetrics
- Account value over time across a backtest or run.
- ExitTrading
- Closing a position.Exit node
- ExpectancyMetrics
- Average profit/loss per trade — what you expect to make on a typical trade.
- ExposureMetrics
- Share of time the strategy held a position rather than sitting in cash.
- FillTrading
- An executed order (or part of one), at a specific price and size.
- FleetPlatform
- Your set of deployed bots and their monitoring dashboard.
- Funding rateTrading
- Periodic payment between longs and shorts on perpetual futures.
- GateStrategy
- The boolean input that decides whether an action fires.
- Hedge modeTrading
- Holding long and short books on the same pair at once.
- IndicatorStrategy
- A computed value from price/volume (RSI, EMA, MACD…), updated each candle.Indicators
- LeverageTrading
- Borrowed exposure that magnifies both gains and losses (futures).
- Limit orderTrading
- Rests at a chosen price and fills only if price reaches it.Limit Entry node
- LiquidationTrading
- Forced close of a leveraged position when margin is exhausted.
- LivePlatform
- Running a strategy with real execution against the exchange.
- LongTrading
- A position that profits when price rises.
- Lot / step sizeTrading
- The smallest quantity increment an instrument can trade (per-symbol).
- MarginTrading
- Collateral required to open a leveraged position.
- Market orderTrading
- Fills immediately at the best available price.
- ModuleStrategy
- A reusable sub-graph you can drop into many strategies.
- NodeStrategy
- One step in the graph: data, indicator, condition, action, risk, math, or state.Node reference
- NotionalTrading
- The total value of a position (size × price), independent of margin used.
- Out-of-samplePlatform
- Data the strategy was not tuned on — the honest test of an edge.
- OverfittingPlatform
- Tuning a strategy so tightly to past data that it fails on new data.
- PairTrading
- The instrument traded, e.g. BTC/USDT. Spot or USDT-M futures.
- Paper tradingPlatform
- Forward-testing on live candles with no real capital at risk.Paper trading & Fleet
- PnLMetrics
- Profit and loss, realized (closed trades) and unrealized (open positions).
- PositionTrading
- An open exposure to a pair, long or short, with a size.
- Profit factorMetrics
- Gross profit ÷ gross loss. Above 1 is net-profitable; higher is better.
- PyramidingTrading
- Adding to a position that's already open, building exposure in stages.
- ReproducibilityPlatform
- Re-running the same strategy on the same data yields the same result, exactly.
- Sharpe ratioMetrics
- Risk-adjusted return: average return per unit of volatility.
- ShortTrading
- A position that profits when price falls.
- SignalStrategy
- A point where the strategy decides to act (enter, exit, alert).
- SlippageTrading
- The difference between expected and actual fill price; modeled in backtests.
- Sortino ratioMetrics
- Like Sharpe, but penalizes only downside volatility — closer to felt risk.
- Source / handleStrategy
- Which node output an input reads — wire a series into an indicator or condition.
- SpreadTrading
- The gap between the best bid and best ask — an implicit cost of trading.
- Stop orderTrading
- Triggers a market/limit order once price crosses a stop level — used for breakouts and stop-losses.Stop Entry node
- Stop-lossTrading
- A bracket that closes a position at a loss threshold to cap downside.Exit node
- Strategy graphStrategy
- Your strategy expressed as connected nodes — the source of truth for what it does.
- Take-profitTrading
- A bracket that closes a position once a profit target is reached.Exit node
- Tick sizeTrading
- The smallest price increment an instrument trades in (per-symbol).
- TimeframeTrading
- The duration each candle represents (e.g. 1m, 1h, 1d).
- Trailing stopTrading
- A stop that follows price in your favor, locking in gains.
- Walk-forwardPlatform
- Testing on rolling out-of-sample windows to check an edge holds over time.
- WarmupStrategy
- The initial bars an indicator needs before it emits a value.
- Win rateMetrics
- Share of trades that closed profitably.
OHLC · bar
fee
max drawdown · MDD
wire · connection
unit
symbol · market
paper · forward test
profit and loss
SL · stop
graph · strategy
TP · target
interval
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