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Glossary
Plain definitions of the terms Tactiq uses: absorption, ATR, burst, CVD, dealer, delta, funding, gamma, imbalance, POC, value area and more.
- Absorption
- Heavy aggression that does not move price, because the other side takes it.
- Acceptance
- Price that stays outside value for at least two closes.
- Area
- A price zone where several references overlap: heavy zones, flow zones, order blocks and levels. Prime, strong or normal.
- ATR
- Average true range: the typical size of one bar. Tactiq measures distances in ATR so that one rule works in quiet and in fast markets.
- Burst
- Heavy seconds of one side that are up to 3 seconds apart. Bursts make a heavy zone.
- CVD
- Cumulative volume delta: delta added up over time.
- Dealer
- In options: the firm on the other side of a customer's option trade. It hedges with the coin. Tactiq estimates dealer positions; nobody publishes them.
- Delta
- Aggressive buy volume minus aggressive sell volume.
- Direction
- The daily lean of the market, from four yes-or-no questions: Strong up to Strong down.
- Flow zone
- A zone made by a stack of three or more same-side footprint imbalances in one candle.
- Funding
- The periodic payment between longs and shorts on a perpetual.
- Gamma
- How much an option dealer's hedge must change when price moves. Long gamma: hedging leans against moves (calmer). Short gamma: it chases them (faster).
- Heavy zone
- A zone made by bursts of unusually large taker size, with a response label two minutes later.
- Imbalance
- In the footprint: buying at a price at least three times the selling one price lower (or the reverse).
- Jev
- The second model in the analyst: it gives calibrated take, wait and pass probabilities.
- Lesson
- A note in the analyst's playbook, written by the daily review. It changes what the analyst is told, never a rule.
- Open interest (OI)
- The number of open perpetual contracts.
- Playbook
- The set of live lessons the analyst reads before each review.
- POC
- Point of control: the price with the most volume.
- Premium
- The money paid for an option (price × quantity, in USD).
- R
- The risk of a trade, from entry to stop. A result of +2 R made twice the risk; −1 R lost the risk. Tactiq always shows it after costs.
- Regime
- The slow state of the market in the Tactiq Flag: trend, tiring, balance or coiling.
- Scorecard
- How the ideas a lesson matches went before and since the lesson went live.
- Stack
- Three or more imbalances in a row on one side, in one candle.
- Trigger
- A closed candle that shows something at an Area: a rejection, an acceptance or a divergence.
- Value area (VAH, VAL)
- The price range that holds 70 % of the volume. VAH is its high, VAL its low.
- Zero gamma (flip)
- The price where dealers switch between long and short gamma. Which side is calm depends on the data: the chart's tag says it (for example "calm above / fast below"), or "No flip near price" when there is none close by.
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