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Chart glossary — plain words, honest data

RSI, leverage, funding… every term explained in plain words, with what actually happened in the data — not just the textbook reading.

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CandlesticksA candlestick (candle) sums up the price action of a fixed time window in a single bar.TimeframeThe timeframe is how much time a single candle contains.Moving Averages (MA & EMA)A moving average (MA) is a line drawn by averaging the prices of the last N candles and connecting the dots.Golden Cross & Death CrossA golden cross is the moment a shorter-period moving average crosses above a longer-period one; a death cross…Support & ResistanceSupport is a price zone where falling prices have repeatedly stalled or bounced back up; resistance is a zone…BreakoutA breakout is when price pushes above the upper boundary of a range it has been stuck in — a resistance level…VolumeVolume is the quantity actually bought and sold during a period of time.Trending vs. Ranging MarketsA trending market is a period when price moves steadily in one direction — up or down.Pullback (Retracement)A pullback (retracement) is when price, while moving in one main direction, temporarily steps back the other …

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RSI (Relative Strength Index)RSI (Relative Strength Index) compares the strength of up moves versus down moves over the last 14 candles an…Overbought & OversoldOverbought means price has risen unusually far in a short period; oversold means it has been sold down unusua…MACDMACD uses the gap between a 12-candle average line and a 26-candle average line to gauge whether the force pu…Bollinger BandsBollinger Bands take the average price of the last 20 candles as a middle line, then draw bands above and bel…Stochastic OscillatorThe Stochastic oscillator shows where the current price sits within the high–low range of a recent period (us…CCI (Commodity Channel Index)CCI (Commodity Channel Index) measures how far a candle's typical price (the average of its high, low, and cl…Williams %RWilliams %R is a chart indicator showing where the current price sits within the high–low range of a recent p…

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Long & ShortA long is a position that profits when price rises; a short is a position that profits when price falls.LeverageLeverage is a multiplier that lets you trade with more money than you've put up (your margin).LiquidationLiquidation is when the exchange force-closes a leveraged position just before losses exhaust your margin.Margin (Isolated vs. Cross)Margin is the collateral you deposit with an exchange to open a futures position.Funding RatesFunding is a small fee that long and short positions pay each other every few hours, designed to keep perpetu…Open Interest (OI)Open interest (OI) is the total amount of futures contracts still alive — opened but not yet closed.Kimchi PremiumThe kimchi premium is the percentage by which a coin trades higher on Korean exchanges than on overseas ones.Perpetual Futures (Perps)Perpetual futures (perps) are futures contracts with no expiry date, so you can hold them as long as you like.Maker & Taker FeesMaker-taker fees are a fee schedule where the exchange charges differently depending on how you order.SlippageSlippage is the gap between the price you saw when you hit the order button and the price you actually got fi…Stop-Loss & Take-Profit (SL/TP)A stop-loss (SL) is an order that automatically closes your position at a preset price when the market moves …Heat (Leverage Crowding)Heat is Barobara's own indicator, scoring from 0 to 100 how heavily borrowed bets (leveraged positions) in th…

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Risk-Reward RatioThe risk-reward ratio compares how much you've agreed to lose versus how much you're aiming to make on a sing…Win RateWin rate is the share of all trades that ended in profit.Expected Value (EV)Expected value (EV) is how much you make or lose per trade on average if you repeat the same trade under the …Sample Size (N)Sample size (N) is the number of cases behind a statistic like a win rate or an expected value.BacktestingA backtest applies a trading rule to past price data to see how things would have turned out if you had bough…Overfitting (Curve Fitting)Overfitting (curve fitting) is what happens when a trading rule gets tuned so tightly to past data that its h…DominanceDominance is the percentage of the total crypto market cap that a specific coin accounts for.Fear & Greed IndexThe Fear & Greed Index compresses the crypto market's current mood — fearful or greedy — into a single number…
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