Glossary
Terms you will see on stock pages, news strategies and guides.
- BUY / WEAK BUY / SELL
- Composite verdict labels from our model. WEAK means the lean is present but conviction is lower.
- Confidence
- How strongly the combined signals agree, shown as a percentage on stock and news pages.
- Composite score
- The blended score from technicals, structure, fundamentals, news tone and research text.
- Entry
- A reference price where the model’s illustrative plan would consider starting a position.
- Fair-value gap (FVG)
- A chart area where price moved so quickly that little trading occurred in between; traders watch these as possible reaction zones.
- FinBERT
- A language model trained on financial text; we use it to score headline tone.
- Fundamental analysis
- Study of business and valuation data such as growth, profitability and earnings.
- MACD
- Moving Average Convergence Divergence — a momentum indicator built from moving averages of price.
- Moving average
- An average of recent closing prices; the 50-day and 200-day averages are common trend references.
- Order block
- A zone on the chart where a strong directional move began; used in some structure-based methods.
- Overbought / oversold
- Informal labels for high or low RSI-style momentum readings; not automatic trade signals.
- Reward-to-risk
- Distance to target divided by distance to stop on an illustrative plan.
- RSI
- Relative Strength Index — a 0 to 100 momentum gauge; we usually discuss the 14-day version.
- SEC 8-K
- A US company filing for material events; our news agent watches these as catalysts.
- SKIP / HOLD
- No clear directional edge in the combined signals on that date.
- Smart money concepts (SMC)
- A family of chart ideas about breaks of structure, liquidity and institutional-style footprints.
- Stop-loss
- A planned exit level if price moves against the idea.
- Target
- A planned upside checkpoint on an illustrative long plan (or downside checkpoint on a short-style plan).
- Technical analysis
- Study of price and volume patterns and indicators.
- Ticker
- The short symbol for a listed stock, such as AAPL or MSFT.
- Trend structure
- How swing highs and lows are progressing — higher highs/higher lows versus the opposite.
- Verdict
- The short rating label on a page (BUY, SELL, SKIP, and related weak/strong forms).