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.

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