Glossary
Master crypto trading with clear, concise definitions of key terms and concepts.
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Order Book
The order book is the live list of bids and asks. Learn to read depth, spot spoof and iceberg orders, and detect absorption and exhaustion.
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AddressDelegation
Address delegation lets holders earn staking rewards by assigning voting rights to a validator while keeping custody of their own tokens.
ADX (Average Directional Index)
ADX measures trend strength from 0 to 100 regardless of direction. Learn what the 20, 25 and 40 thresholds mean, plus DI+/DI- crossovers.
Aggregated Order Books: All Crypto Exchange Orders in One Place
Aggregated order books merge buy and sell orders from multiple crypto exchanges into one view of depth, price and arbitrage opportunities.
Airdrop
A crypto airdrop sends free tokens to wallet addresses to reward early users. Learn the types, how to qualify, how to spot scams and the tax rules.
All-Time Low (ATL)
The lowest price or value an asset has reached in its trading history.
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An all-time low (ATL) is the lowest price an asset has traded. Learn to spot capitulation bottoms, use ATL as psychological support, and avoid falling knives.
Application Programming Interface (API)
A collection of protocols and tools that enables different software applications to communicate with each other.
ApplicationProgrammingInterfaceAPI
An API lets software talk to other software, and in crypto it powers trading bots and market data. Learn how exchange and blockchain APIs work for traders.
ASICResistant
ASIC resistance aims to keep mining in reach of GPUs by using memory-hard algorithms. See how it works, why it fails, and what it means for miners.
Ask Me Anything (AMA)
Interactive community Q&A sessions where project teams answer questions, often moving crypto prices with announcements.
Atomic Swap
Trustless cross-chain cryptocurrency exchange using smart contracts that execute both sides simultaneously or not at all.
Auto Deleveraging (ADL)
Auto-deleveraging (ADL) force-closes profitable positions when the insurance fund cannot cover a liquidation. Learn how ADL ranking works and how to avoid it.
AutomaticReplayProtection
Replay protection stops a transaction on one chain from being replayed on a forked chain. Learn how it works at hard forks and how replay attacks drain wallets.
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Batch Auction: How Order Aggregation Improves Crypto Price Discovery
A batch auction collects orders over a window and executes them all at one clearing price. Learn how it cuts front-running and improves crypto price discovery.
Bid Ask Imbalance
Bid-ask imbalance is skewed volume on one side of the order book. Learn how it predicts short-term direction and the thresholds that separate noise from signal.
Break of Structure (BOS)
A Break of Structure is price breaking a prior swing high or low, signaling a trend change. Learn internal vs external BOS and how to trade it.
Bull Market: Riding Uptrends, FOMO Dynamics & Profit-Taking in Crypto
A bull market is a sustained rise in asset prices driven by buying pressure. Learn to ride crypto uptrends, manage FOMO, and lock in profits before the turn.
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Head and Shoulders
Head and Shoulders is a bearish reversal pattern with three peaks that traps longs and shorts before the neckline break, and its inverse marks bottoms.
Heatmap
A heatmap uses color intensity to show where market data clusters, turning order book and liquidation data into an at-a-glance view of key price levels.
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Iceberg Order
An Iceberg Order hides most of its size and displays only a small tip, letting large traders work a position without signaling intent to the book.
Ichimoku Cloud (Ichimoku Kinko Hyo)
Ichimoku Cloud is a single-view system of five lines mapping trend, momentum and future support and resistance, with the Kumo twist marking reversal.
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Liquidation
When the exchange forcibly closes your trade because you lost too much. It's the repo man coming for your car, only faster and without warning.
Liquidation Price
Liquidation Price is the level where a leveraged position is force-closed and its margin is lost, moving closer to entry as leverage rises.
Liquidity Heatmap
A Liquidity Heatmap color-codes order book depth by price level, revealing where buy and sell orders cluster and where price will meet support or resistance.
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Market Analysis
Market analysis combines technical, fundamental, and sentiment reads into one process that stacks the odds before you place a crypto trade.
Market Profile
Market Profile organizes price by time and volume, exposing fair value, value areas, and the point of control most traders overlook.
MarketDepth
Market depth shows the full order book behind the quoted price, revealing slippage risk and where large buy and sell walls sit.
Moving Average
Moving averages turn price chaos into one trend line. Learn which periods matter, why 20, 50, and 200 win, and how to read the slope.
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Order Book
The order book is the live list of bids and asks. Learn to read depth, spot spoof and iceberg orders, and detect absorption and exhaustion.
Order Types
Order types guide to market, limit, stop, OCO, and trailing stops. Pick the right instruction for each crypto scenario and cut execution cost.
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Slippage Tolerance
Slippage Tolerance caps the price deviation you accept on an order. Learn how to size it to volatility so DEX swaps fill without sandwich attack losses.
Spot Price
Current market price for immediate asset delivery, serving as the reference for all crypto derivatives pricing and mark-to-market calculations.
Support Zone
A Support Zone is a price floor where buyers repeatedly absorb selling. Learn zone versus line thinking, the polarity principle, and how to rate zone strength.
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Technical Analysis
Study of historical price action, volume, and chart patterns to forecast market direction and identify trading opportunities.
Tokenomics
Tokenomics covers a token's supply schedule, distribution, unlocks, and value capture. Learn to read emissions and vesting before you take a position.
Triangle Pattern (Ascending, Descending, Symmetrical)
Triangle patterns compress price toward an apex before a breakout. Learn ascending, descending, and symmetrical triangles, apex timing, and how to trade them.
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Volume Analysis
Study of trading volume patterns to confirm price moves, identify reversals, and gauge market participation strength.
Volume Profile: How Traders Read Volume at Every Price Level
Volume Profile shows volume at each price level instead of each time bar. Learn to read the Point of Control, value areas, and easy break zones on charts.
VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price)
VWAP is the volume-weighted average price institutions treat as fair value. Learn VWAP reversion trades and anchored VWAP levels for intraday crypto setups.