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You buy and actually own the asset itself, with no borrowing. Your maximum loss is only what you paid.
An agreement on an asset’s price without owning it, usually with leverage that magnifies both gain and loss.
You enter expecting the price to rise: you gain if it climbs and lose if it falls.
You enter expecting the price to fall: you gain if it drops and lose if it rises.
Borrowing from the platform to enlarge your trade: with $100 you enter with $1,000 — gain and loss multiply tenfold, and if you lose the collateral you posted, the trade is force-closed.
The amount you post as collateral when opening a leveraged trade — it is the first thing you lose if the trade goes against you, and futures in traditional markets rest on it too.
The forced closing of your trade when your loss reaches all the collateral you posted. Happens only in leveraged trading.
A price you set in advance that auto-closes the trade if the price reaches it against your position, aiming to cap your loss near a number you accept — in very fast moves the close can execute slightly beyond it.
The price at which you open the trade.
The price you plan to exit at to lock in profit.
The total money you’ve set aside for trading.
How much of your capital you put into a single trade, usually as a percentage of it.
A periodic fee exchanged between holders of long and short positions in perpetual contracts, keeping their price close to the spot price: you pay it or receive it depending on your side.
The list of pending buy and sell orders at each price: it shows you where demand gathers and where supply gathers before a trade executes.
The highest price a buyer is offering right now in the order book — this is what you receive if you sell immediately.
The lowest price a seller is asking right now in the order book — this is what you pay if you buy immediately.
The distance between the best bid and the best ask: the wider it is, the more it costs you to enter and exit immediately.
The difference between the price you expected and the price your order actually filled at: it widens when liquidity is thin or the market moves fast.
The outcome of your position in figures: unrealised while the position is open, realised when it is closed — and counted after fees.
The heaviest asset that leads the rest of the market: in the digital market it’s Bitcoin, in the traditional market it’s the main index.
How much money is trading on an asset. High liquidity means easy buying and selling without big price jumps.
How much the price swings up and down. High volatility means violent movement and greater risk.
The price’s general direction over time: up, down, or sideways (no clear direction).
Upper and lower price bounds the price swings between without breaking either. A 'narrow range' means limited movement.
A price where declines usually stop and buying returns — like a floor the price bounces off.
A price where climbs usually stop and selling returns — like a ceiling the price bounces off.
The price forcefully passing a resistance ceiling or support floor, which may open a larger move in that direction.
Big players' money (funds and firms) entering an asset, read as a signal of the move’s seriousness.
Very large wallets that move the market by their size. TRY ALPHA tracks their entries and exits and weighs, with its evidence, whether a move is likelier genuine or manipulation.
The highest-value assets in the market (by market value), the most liquid and relatively stable.
An asset’s total value = price times circulating supply. It measures its size in the market.
TRY ALPHA’s summary analysis of what is in front of you — an asset, a market, a match or an event — in one clear voice backed by its evidence.
TRY ALPHA’s angles for examining an asset: price action, asset quality, and market/news mood — together they build the read.
A price rise driven by media noise with no real buying behind it — it usually reverses. TRY ALPHA flags it.
A qualitative reading in four components shown on the card: evidence coverage, state stability, execution certainty, and calibration status — each with its own verbal grade, no single combined number, and no guarantee in any of them.
The reading’s calibration status: TRY ALPHA’s thresholds are established from real outcomes in its ledger — until that completes, the status is shown honestly as in progress, with no percentage before it.
An in-platform usage unit spent on operations like scanning; each scan scope shows its usage before you confirm.
A section that surfaces assets TRY ALPHA detects before a recommendation matures — capped at fifteen active.
A contract you buy on the outcome of a clear yes/no question — you win if the outcome happens, and your loss is capped at the contract’s price.
'Yes' wins if the event happens, 'No' wins if it doesn’t. The contract’s price between 0 and 100 expresses its probability.
The probability the event market gives to the event happening now, shown in the contract’s price (e.g., 45%).
The probability TRY ALPHA’s read favors for the event after examining its sources — it may differ from the market’s pricing.
The difference between market pricing and probable reality. A wide, evidenced gap is what deserves attention in the events world.
The moment the event’s outcome is known for good, and the contract is settled as a win or loss.
A number summarizing the performance of a large group of stocks together (like the S&P 500 for the largest 500 US firms), the traditional market’s leader.
Electronic money with no paper form and no bank behind it. People buy and sell it, and its price rises and falls every day. It is the oldest and largest, so when its price moves, most of the others move with it.
One number that moves with the largest technology companies together. If it goes up, most of them gained that day; if it goes down, most of them lost — so you see how they are doing at a glance instead of following each company.
One number that moves with thirty large, long-standing American companies from different fields. When it goes up, most of them are having a good day; when it goes down, the opposite.
A group that meets on known dates and decides how much it costs to borrow money in its country. Raise that cost and borrowing gets expensive and spending cools; lower it and borrowing gets cheaper — which is why its decision is awaited.
One currency’s price against another (like euro vs. dollar). You gain or lose as their ratio shifts.
A loan you give an entity (government or company) for periodic interest and later repayment of the principal.
A traded physical good like gold or oil.
A periodic announcement of a company’s profits and results, which usually moves its stock sharply.
The central bank’s decision to raise, cut, or hold the interest rate — a macro event that moves most markets.
Rising prices over time and a falling money value. Its data moves rate decisions and markets.
Limited trading after the official exchange close, giving an early signal about the next open.
The base networks the rest of the digital projects are built on (like the Ethereum network).
Assets of projects providing operational services to networks (storage, data, cross-network bridges).
Assets giving their holder a vote in a digital project’s decisions (like voting on its changes).
