Long
A long call means the analyst expects the price to go up.
A long call means the analyst expects the price to go up. The position is opened by buying and, if it works out, closed higher. Your exchange will show Long/Buy in green and Short/Sell in red — match the WORD, not the colour.
Short
A short call means the analyst expects the price to go down.
A short call means the analyst expects the price to go down, and it gains if the coin falls. It cannot be copied by holding the coin on spot, where the same call is a reason to stay out or to take profit rather than something to follow. Your exchange will show Long/Buy in green and Short/Sell in red — match the WORD, not the colour.
Entry price
The entry price is the price at which the call is meant to be opened.
The entry price is the price at which the call is meant to be opened. Once the market has moved a long way past it the call may no longer make sense, and the track record still measures it from the published entry, never from a better price found later.
Take profit
A take profit is the price where the analyst plans to close the position with a gain.
A take profit is the price where the analyst plans to close the position with a gain. A call can carry several: a share of the position closes at each one in turn, and the result is weighted by those shares.
Stop loss
A stop loss — the safety exit on these cards — is the price where the position is closed to limit the loss.
A stop loss — the safety exit on these cards — is the price where the position is closed to limit the loss when the price goes the wrong way. It is a limit on the damage, not a forecast, and crypto swings hard enough that safety exits get hit often.
Reward vs risk
Reward vs risk compares the distance from the entry to the target with the distance from the entry to the safety exit.
Reward vs risk compares the distance from the entry to the target with the distance from the entry to the safety exit. "2.3 : 1" means the target sits 2.3 times as far from the entry as the safety exit does. It says nothing about how likely either one is, so the win rate and the average result per call matter just as much.
Spot
Spot means buying the coin itself with your own money, with nothing borrowed.
Spot means buying the coin itself with your own money, with nothing borrowed. The loss is limited to the amount put in and there is no liquidation.
Futures
Futures are contracts that track a coin's price instead of the coin itself, and they can be traded in either direction.
Futures are contracts that track a coin's price instead of the coin itself, and they can be traded in either direction, which is how a short call is normally taken. Exchanges also allow leverage on them; Signal Terminal never suggests any.
Leverage
Leverage is trading with borrowed money, which multiplies the gain and the loss by the same amount.
Leverage is trading with borrowed money, which multiplies the gain and the loss by the same amount. At 5× a move of roughly 20% against the position wipes out the money behind it. Every percentage on this site is the plain price move, with no leverage applied, and no call here suggests using any.
Liquidation
Liquidation is when a leveraged position loses so much that the exchange closes it and the money behind it is gone.
Liquidation is when a leveraged position loses so much that the exchange closes it automatically and the money behind it is gone. It cannot happen on spot, because nothing was borrowed.
Position
A position is one open trade, opened and closed on your own exchange — never here.
A position is one open trade. Positions are opened and closed on your own exchange; this site publishes calls and measures them, and never places a trade, holds funds or connects to an exchange.
Active
Active means the call is live: the price has not yet reached the final target or the safety exit.
Active means the call is live: the entry price was reached and the price has not yet reached the final target or the safety exit. A call that reached its first target and is still running reads "ACTIVE · first target reached".
Breakeven
Breakeven means the call closed back at its entry price, so it counts as neither a win nor a loss.
Breakeven means the call closed back where it opened, so the result rounds to zero: neither a win nor a loss. It still appears in the track record and in the count of closed calls.
Closed early
Closed early means the analyst closed the call before the target or the safety exit was reached, and said why.
Closed early means the analyst closed the call before the target or the safety exit was reached, and gave a reason. The result is measured at that price and counts in the track record like any other closed call.
Not entered
Not entered means the price never reached the entry, so the call never became a position.
Not entered covers the calls the market never gave: the price ran away before the entry, the safety exit was reached first, the entry expired unused, or the analyst cancelled it. These are neither wins nor losses, so they are shown in full and left out of the win rate.
Win rate
The win rate is the share of closed calls that ended in profit.
The win rate is the share of closed calls that ended in profit — out of every hundred closed calls, how many finished above the entry. A high win rate with a poor reward vs risk still loses money over time, so the average result per closed call and the profit factor sit beside it, and a small sample is labelled as one.