Good Evening.
Here is the most commun word used. It will give you a better understanding. Enjoy. 😎
Accumulation : The market phase in which smart money buys their coins.
Altcoin / Alt : Any cryptocurrency that isn’t Bitcoin.
ATH : All-time High.
Bag : Holding a particular coin.
Bear Market : A period where the prices are seeing a long term downtrend.
Bear Trap : The opposite of the above - designed to trap sellers instead of buyers.
Bid / Ask : A Bid is a buy order, and an Ask is a Sell order. Think of it like an auction, where a Bid is the price somebody wants to pay for the asset, and an Ask is the price somebody wants to sell their asset for.
Bounce : When a coin, or the market itself, starts to go up after a down move.
BOS : Break of structure. A BOS signals continuation of the current market structure, whereas an MSB signals a strong reversal of market structure.
Breakout : A Breakout is a price movement that pierces the upper or lower boundaries of a trading range.
Bull Market : A market where prices are seeing a continuous uptrend, leading to new highs being created over a sustained period.
Bull Trap : When large player(s) buy aggressively, causing price to rise sharply. Traders think that this is a Breakout and they start to buy. The large player then flips bias, and starts selling large amounts into these new buyers, pushing the prices down, liquidating many overleveraged traders.
CABAL : A group of people involved in a private scheme such as a pump and dump. Many alts have CABAL's. They buy up a lot of coins then they start pushing it. Clueless investors buy into the coin and they get dumped on by the CABAL's.
Chop / Choppy : A period where the price is moving sideways with no clear direction, usually causing traders to change their mind frequently and lose money.
Consolidation : A period where the price is ranging in a well-defined region. This is a period of indecision and generally leads to a volatile movement in either direction.
Confirmation : Traders often look for more than one signal to confirm their opinion on the price direction of a coin. Confirmation refers to a subsequent signal that validates or reinforces the traders opinion on where the coin is heading.
Correction / Pullback : Also known as a ‘pullback’, a correction is a fall in price after making a new peak or an upwards rally.
Day Trading : Taking a position in the market (buying or selling, long or short) and exiting it the same day.
Demand : An area or level with significant buying interest/ support.
Downtrend : Opposite of uptrend, price here makes lower highs and lower lows.
Distribution : The market phase in which smart money sells their coins.
Dump / Crash / Nuke : Price goes down rapidly.
Exchange (Centralised / CEX) : An online marketplace which allows buying and selling of BTC and Altcoins through a centralised company who custody your assets. E.g. Coinbase, Binance.
Exchange (Decentralised / DEX) : An online marketplace hosted on a blockchain which allows buying and selling of BTC and Altcoins in a trustless manner (no middle man). You retain custody of your assets. E.g. Uniswap, Sushiswap
EV : Expected Value. A term used in probabilistic thinking when estimating potential returns of a trade.
Fade : To take a position that is counter to the current trend of a coin. The position is established at the end of an up and down leg.
Fiat : Currencies that have value because they are minted by a central bank. Examples include USD, GBP, EUR.
Flat / Get Flat : To close out a position and remain neutral.
FOMO- Fear Of Missing Out : That feeling you get when the market pumps and you’re not in a long trade. Learn to ignore it.
FUD : Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. A term used to describe negative news articles or other information about a coin or project.
Front Running : Taking a position in a coin based on non-public information such as an impending transaction by another person in the same or related coin.
HTF : Shorthand for High Time Frame - referring to a candlestick chart on a longer term basis (Daily, Weekly etc.)
KYC : KYC stands for "know your customer." Many jurisdictions have KYC regulations, which require verification of new customers when joining an exchange before they can buy or sell crypto.
Leverage : The extra amount of asset bought or sold, over your capital limit. E.g. If you want to go long $100000 worth of Bitcoin with an account balance of $10000, you would have to use leverage of 10x. Leverage opens you up to risk of liquidation on sudden price moves.
Long / Going Long / Long Trade : A buy order to open a position on perpetual futures. ‘Buy’ and ‘Long’ are often used interchangeably.
Liquidity : The measure of how much demand and supply (bids and asks) there is on the order books for a particular coin. A high liquidity coin has many available buyers and sellers at the same time.
Limit Order : An order will execute at a predefined price, if the market reaches that price.
LTF : Shorthand for Low Time Frame - referring to a candlestick chart on a near term basis (5min, 30min, 1 hour etc.)
Liquidation : When you are stopped out of your position because the trade went in the opposite direction and your margins are not sufficient to carry the trade anymore.
Market Cap : Current supply (number of coins available) multiplied by current price of said coin.
Market Maker : A professional dealer or person with trading privileges on an exchange who has an obligation to buy when there is an excess of sell orders and to sell when there is an excess of buy orders.
Market Order : An order to buy or sell at the current best price available, executed immediately.
Margin / Initial Margin : The amount of funds required to open a leveraged trade. E.g. If you want to open a position of $10000 with a leverage of 5X, your margin requirement would be $2000. 2000 x 5 = $10000
Maintenance Margin : Maintenance margin is the amount of account balance (collateral value) required to avoid a margin call. If your balance falls below the maintenance margin, your positions will be liquidated. Note that Margin and Maintenance Margin are not the exact same number. Always check your specific exchange for the required % of maintenance margin.
Moon / Mooning : When a coin ‘moons’, that means it rises sharply in value. For example, a crypto trader could talk about how an altcoin is going "to the moon!"
OHLC : Open, high, low and close. Refers to candlestick charts.
Open Interest : Open Interest (OI) is the total number of derivatives contracts currently open for a particular asset. OI is calculated by adding the total number of longs and shorts.
Overbought : A technical opinion that the market price has risen too steeply and too fast in relation to underlying fundamental factors.
Oversold : A technical opinion that the market price has declined too steeply and too fast in relation to underlying fundamental factors.
PA / Price Action : Analysis of the basic price movements to generate trade entry and exit signals that ignores fundamentals and focuses solely on what price is telling us.
P&L / PnL : Profit & Loss. What a trader has made or lost in a given timeframe.
Position Trade : Taking a position in the market over a period of multiple weeks or even months.
PUMP AND DUMP : A "pump and dump" is a type of market manipulation where a market participant—or several—work together to inflate the price of an asset so they can sell it when its value is artificially high.
Pump / Rip : Price goes up rapidly.
Rekt : The term "rekt" is crypto trader slang for "wrecked." Basically, it means that a trader lost substantial amounts of money.
Resistance : An area/line where traders expect the price to stop moving up and reverse downwards.
Rally : An upward trend leading to an increase in price of the coin.
Range / Ranging : The difference between the high and low price of a coin during a given time period. Ranging means we are going up and down with no clear trend.
Risk : How much you will lose if your trade fails.
Reward : How much your trade will return if it wins.
RR : Risk reward, shorthand for how much profit you stand to make per unit of risk.
Scalping / Scalp Trade : Taking a position on a very short timeframe (minutes) aiming to capture a fast profit on a move.
Selling off : When a coin is going down and the thought is that it will continue to do so.
Slippage : The difference between estimated fill price for a trade and the amount paid due to market conditions, poor execution etc.
Swing Trade : Taking a position in the market over a period of 2-7 days.
Short / Shorting / Short Trade : A sell order to open a position on perpetual futures. ‘Sell’ and ‘Short’ are often used interchangeably.
Short Squeeze : When those that are short have to cover (close their position) to avoid excessive losses. Leads to a seemingly unexplainable up move.
Spread : The difference between the price sellers are willing to sell at (best ask/offer) and buyers are willing to buy at (best bid). There always exists a spread on exchanges, the more liquidity an exchange has, the lower the spread will be.
Supply : An area or level with significant sell orders.
Stop-Loss : An order that is triggered when price goes above/below a set price. Used to limit losses when a trade goes against expectation.
Support : A support is an area/line where traders expect the price to hold above or bounce back up from.
Sweep : Where price goes above or below a consolidation range and reverses back into the range. “Sweep the lows” or “sweep the highs” typically refers to a price move designed to hit the stop-losses of traders.
The tape or reading the tape : Known as time and sales, the list of trades that have been executed on a particular coin. It regroup prices of the trade, number of contracts and transactions.
Token : A digital token is a unit of a digital currency, such as a bitcoin. Interchangeable with ‘coin’.
Time Frame : The time spread of each candlestick in a chart. Common time periods are 5min, 30 min, 1Hour, 4 Hour, Daily etc.
Trend : The general direction, either upward or downward, in which prices has been moving.
Trendline : In charting, a line drawn across the bottom or top of a price chart indicating the direction or trend of price movement. If up, the trendline is called bullish; if down, it is called bearish.
Uptrend : When price is making higher highs and higher lows over a given timeframe.
Volatility : The percentage movement in price of an asset over a specific time period.
Volume : Total number of coins or contracts traded in a particular time period.
Whale : The term "whale" is used to describe a trader who makes sizable bets. Market participants with the ability to execute very large transactions can potentially manipulate the market.
You can contact me if you think something is missing.
Regards,
Mike Who.
