Trading Glossary — 158 Terms
A no-fluff dictionary of trading terms. Each term has its own page with a 3-paragraph definition, worked examples, and related-term links. Definitions favor practical use over academic completeness.
Total terms: 158
Alphabetical
- What Is ADX (Average Directional Index)? Definition & Examples
- What Is After-Hours Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Alpha? Definition & Examples
- What Is AMM (Automated Market Maker)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Ascending Triangle? Definition & Examples
- What Is ATR (Average True Range)? Definition & Examples
- What Is ATR Multiple? Definition & Examples
- What Is Backtest? Definition & Examples
- What Is Beta? Definition & Examples
- What Is Bid-Ask Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is Bollinger Bands? Definition & Examples
- What Is Breakout? Definition & Examples
- What Is Butterfly Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is Calendar Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is Calmar Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Candlestick Chart? Definition & Examples
- What Is Carry Trade? Definition & Examples
- What Is Cash-Secured Put? Definition & Examples
- What Is CCI (Commodity Channel Index)? Definition & Examples
- What Is CEX (Centralized Exchange)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Circuit Breaker? Definition & Examples
- What Is Cold Storage? Definition & Examples
- What Is Consolidation? Definition & Examples
- What Is Covered Call? Definition & Examples
- What Is Cryptocurrency Exchange? Definition & Examples
- What Is Cup and Handle? Definition & Examples
- What Is Dark Pool? Definition & Examples
- What Is Day Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Death Cross? Definition & Examples
- What Is DeFi (Decentralized Finance)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Delta? Definition & Examples
- What Is Descending Triangle? Definition & Examples
- What Is DEX (Decentralized Exchange)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Divergence (Bullish / Bearish)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Diversification? Definition & Examples
- What Is Doji Candlestick? Definition & Examples
- What Is Double Bottom? Definition & Examples
- What Is Double Top? Definition & Examples
- What Is Drawdown? Definition & Examples
- What Is Earnings Report? Definition & Examples
- What Is EMA (Exponential Moving Average)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Engulfing Pattern? Definition & Examples
- What Is ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Evening Star? Definition & Examples
- What Is Expectancy? Definition & Examples
- What Is Fibonacci Extension? Definition & Examples
- What Is Fibonacci Retracement? Definition & Examples
- What Is Fibonacci Retracement? Definition & Examples
- What Is Flag Pattern? Definition & Examples
- What Is FOK (Fill-Or-Kill) Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Front-Running? Definition & Examples
- What Is Fundamental Analysis? Definition & Examples
- What Is Gamma? Definition & Examples
- What Is Gap Up? Definition & Examples
- What Is Gas Fee? Definition & Examples
- What Is Golden Cross? Definition & Examples
- What Is GTC (Good-Till-Cancelled) Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Hammer Candlestick? Definition & Examples
- What Is Head and Shoulders Pattern? Definition & Examples
- What Is High-Frequency Trading (HFT)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Iceberg Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Ichimoku Cloud? Definition & Examples
- What Is Impermanent Loss? Definition & Examples
- What Is Implied Volatility (IV)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Implied Volatility Percentile (IV Rank)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Information Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Inverted Hammer? Definition & Examples
- What Is IOC (Immediate-Or-Cancel) Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Iron Condor? Definition & Examples
- What Is IV Crush? Definition & Examples
- What Is Kelly Criterion? Definition & Examples
- What Is Keltner Channel? Definition & Examples
- What Is Layer 2 (L2)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Level 2 (L2) Data? Definition & Examples
- What Is Leverage? Definition & Examples
- What Is Limit Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Limit Up / Limit Down? Definition & Examples
- What Is Limit Up-Limit Down (LULD)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Liquidation? Definition & Examples
- What Is Liquidity? Definition & Examples
- What Is Long Position? Definition & Examples
- What Is Lot Size (Forex)? Definition & Examples
- What Is MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Margin? Definition & Examples
- What Is Market Capitalization? Definition & Examples
- What Is Market Maker? Definition & Examples
- What Is Market Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Maximum Drawdown? Definition & Examples
- What Is Mean Reversion? Definition & Examples
- What Is Momentum Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Money Flow Index (MFI)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Morning Star? Definition & Examples
- What Is Moving Average Crossover? Definition & Examples
- What Is Moving Average? Definition & Examples
- What Is NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer)? Definition & Examples
- What Is OBV (On-Balance Volume)? Definition & Examples
- What Is OCO (One-Cancels-Other) Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Options Contract? Definition & Examples
- What Is Order Book? Definition & Examples
- What Is Pairs Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Parabolic SAR? Definition & Examples
- What Is Pennant? Definition & Examples
- What Is Perpetual Swap? Definition & Examples
- What Is Pip? Definition & Examples
- What Is Position Sizing? Definition & Examples
- What Is Pre-Market Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is R-Squared? Definition & Examples
- What Is Rho? Definition & Examples
- What Is Risk Management? Definition & Examples
- What Is Risk/Reward Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is RSI (Relative Strength Index)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Rug Pull? Definition & Examples
- What Is Scalping? Definition & Examples
- What Is Sharpe Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Shooting Star? Definition & Examples
- What Is Short Selling? Definition & Examples
- What Is Short Squeeze? Definition & Examples
- What Is Skewness? Definition & Examples
- What Is Slippage? Definition & Examples
- What Is SMA (Simple Moving Average)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Smart Contract? Definition & Examples
- What Is Sortino Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is Stablecoin? Definition & Examples
- What Is Stochastic Oscillator? Definition & Examples
- What Is Stop Loss? Definition & Examples
- What Is Stop-Limit Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Straddle? Definition & Examples
- What Is Strangle? Definition & Examples
- What Is Supertrend Indicator? Definition & Examples
- What Is Support and Resistance? Definition & Examples
- What Is Swing Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Take Profit? Definition & Examples
- What Is Tape Reading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Tax-Loss Harvesting? Definition & Examples
- What Is Technical Analysis? Definition & Examples
- What Is Theta? Definition & Examples
- What Is Three Black Crows? Definition & Examples
- What Is Three White Soldiers? Definition & Examples
- What Is Tokenomics? Definition & Examples
- What Is Trading Halt? Definition & Examples
- What Is Trailing Stop Loss? Definition & Examples
- What Is Trailing Stop? Definition & Examples
- What Is Trend? Definition & Examples
- What Is Treynor Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Value at Risk (VaR)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Vega? Definition & Examples
- What Is Vertical Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is VIX (Volatility Index)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Volatility? Definition & Examples
- What Is VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price)? Definition & Examples
- What Is VWAP Bounce? Definition & Examples
- What Is Wash Sale? Definition & Examples
- What Is Wedge Pattern? Definition & Examples
- What Is Williams %R? Definition & Examples
- What Is Win Rate? Definition & Examples
- What Is Yield Farming? Definition & Examples
Candlestick Pattern (3)
Chart Pattern (4)
Chart Type (1)
Crypto (3)
Crypto Concept (12)
- What Is AMM (Automated Market Maker)? Definition & Examples
- What Is CEX (Centralized Exchange)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Cold Storage? Definition & Examples
- What Is DEX (Decentralized Exchange)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Gas Fee? Definition & Examples
- What Is Impermanent Loss? Definition & Examples
- What Is Layer 2 (L2)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Perpetual Swap? Definition & Examples
- What Is Rug Pull? Definition & Examples
- What Is Smart Contract? Definition & Examples
- What Is Tokenomics? Definition & Examples
- What Is Yield Farming? Definition & Examples
Derivatives (2)
Forex (3)
Fundamental Analysis (2)
Market Indicator (1)
Market Structure (19)
- What Is After-Hours Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Breakout? Definition & Examples
- What Is Circuit Breaker? Definition & Examples
- What Is Consolidation? Definition & Examples
- What Is Dark Pool? Definition & Examples
- What Is Front-Running? Definition & Examples
- What Is High-Frequency Trading (HFT)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Level 2 (L2) Data? Definition & Examples
- What Is Limit Up / Limit Down? Definition & Examples
- What Is Limit Up-Limit Down (LULD)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Market Maker? Definition & Examples
- What Is NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Order Book? Definition & Examples
- What Is Pre-Market Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Short Squeeze? Definition & Examples
- What Is Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is Support and Resistance? Definition & Examples
- What Is Trading Halt? Definition & Examples
- What Is Trend? Definition & Examples
Methodology (3)
Options Greek (5)
Options Strategy (10)
- What Is Butterfly Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is Calendar Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is Cash-Secured Put? Definition & Examples
- What Is Covered Call? Definition & Examples
- What Is Implied Volatility Percentile (IV Rank)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Iron Condor? Definition & Examples
- What Is IV Crush? Definition & Examples
- What Is Straddle? Definition & Examples
- What Is Strangle? Definition & Examples
- What Is Vertical Spread? Definition & Examples
Order Type (11)
- What Is FOK (Fill-Or-Kill) Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is GTC (Good-Till-Cancelled) Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Iceberg Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is IOC (Immediate-Or-Cancel) Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Limit Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Market Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is OCO (One-Cancels-Other) Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Stop Loss? Definition & Examples
- What Is Stop-Limit Order? Definition & Examples
- What Is Take Profit? Definition & Examples
- What Is Trailing Stop? Definition & Examples
Pattern (16)
- What Is Ascending Triangle? Definition & Examples
- What Is Death Cross? Definition & Examples
- What Is Descending Triangle? Definition & Examples
- What Is Evening Star? Definition & Examples
- What Is Fibonacci Extension? Definition & Examples
- What Is Fibonacci Retracement? Definition & Examples
- What Is Flag Pattern? Definition & Examples
- What Is Gap Up? Definition & Examples
- What Is Golden Cross? Definition & Examples
- What Is Inverted Hammer? Definition & Examples
- What Is Morning Star? Definition & Examples
- What Is Pennant? Definition & Examples
- What Is Shooting Star? Definition & Examples
- What Is Three Black Crows? Definition & Examples
- What Is Three White Soldiers? Definition & Examples
- What Is Wedge Pattern? Definition & Examples
Risk Concept (6)
Risk Management (3)
Statistical Measure (8)
- What Is Alpha? Definition & Examples
- What Is Beta? Definition & Examples
- What Is Calmar Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Information Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is R-Squared? Definition & Examples
- What Is Skewness? Definition & Examples
- What Is Sortino Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Treynor Ratio? Definition & Examples
Strategy (7)
- What Is Mean Reversion? Definition & Examples
- What Is Momentum Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Moving Average Crossover? Definition & Examples
- What Is Pairs Trading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Tape Reading? Definition & Examples
- What Is Tax-Loss Harvesting? Definition & Examples
- What Is VWAP Bounce? Definition & Examples
Technical Indicator (20)
- What Is ADX (Average Directional Index)? Definition & Examples
- What Is ATR (Average True Range)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Bollinger Bands? Definition & Examples
- What Is CCI (Commodity Channel Index)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Divergence (Bullish / Bearish)? Definition & Examples
- What Is EMA (Exponential Moving Average)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Fibonacci Retracement? Definition & Examples
- What Is Ichimoku Cloud? Definition & Examples
- What Is Keltner Channel? Definition & Examples
- What Is MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Money Flow Index (MFI)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Moving Average? Definition & Examples
- What Is OBV (On-Balance Volume)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Parabolic SAR? Definition & Examples
- What Is RSI (Relative Strength Index)? Definition & Examples
- What Is SMA (Simple Moving Average)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Stochastic Oscillator? Definition & Examples
- What Is Supertrend Indicator? Definition & Examples
- What Is VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Williams %R? Definition & Examples
Trading Concept (15)
- What Is Bid-Ask Spread? Definition & Examples
- What Is Drawdown? Definition & Examples
- What Is ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund)? Definition & Examples
- What Is Expectancy? Definition & Examples
- What Is Leverage? Definition & Examples
- What Is Liquidation? Definition & Examples
- What Is Liquidity? Definition & Examples
- What Is Long Position? Definition & Examples
- What Is Margin? Definition & Examples
- What Is Risk/Reward Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Sharpe Ratio? Definition & Examples
- What Is Short Selling? Definition & Examples
- What Is Slippage? Definition & Examples
- What Is Volatility? Definition & Examples
- What Is Win Rate? Definition & Examples