# Glossary

Source: https://tactiq.pro/docs/glossary · Trust · updated 2026-10-31

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.