Glossary
Every term used in the app and the docs, A to Z.
A
- Acknowledged
- An alert has been seen by an operator. Does not resolve the cause.
- Agent
- The autonomous system that ingests news, scores signals, and places trades.
- Auto-trade
- Master switch that lets qualifying signals open positions automatically.
B
- Backtest
- A replay of a frozen agent configuration over historical events.
- Brief
- Structured output of one portfolio decision pass.
C
- Capital per trade
- USD allocated to each new position. Hard cap.
- Close list
- Tickers the AI has explicitly told the executor to close.
- Confidence
- Model's 0–1 score for the strength of a signal.
- Config snapshot
- Frozen copy of agent config used for a specific backtest run.
- Cycle
- One full read → collate → decide → react pass.
D
- Demo mode
- Trades simulated against eToro's demo environment. No real capital moves.
- Direction
- Long (price up) or Short (price down).
- Drawdown
- Distance from peak portfolio value, expressed as a percentage.
- Drawdown pause
- Safety brake that halts new trades when drawdown breaches the limit.
E
- Event
- A scheduled market-moving occurrence — earnings, FDA, FOMC, EIA, M&A.
- eToro instrument
- A tradable symbol as known by eToro, with its instrument_id.
- Executor
- The component that turns a brief into actual broker orders.
I
- Intraday reaction
- An off-schedule pass triggered by breaking news or an imminent event.
L
- Lineage
- The chain news → signal → brief → trade that lets you audit any execution.
- Live mode
- Trades hit eToro's live environment with real capital. Requires explicit toggle.
M
- Max leverage
- Hard ceiling on per-trade leverage, regardless of model proposal.
- Mode
- demo or live — stamped on every signal, brief and trade.
P
- Pattern matching
- Looking up analogous historical events and the trades they produced.
- Peak portfolio value
- Highest equity ever reached. Drives drawdown math.
- Pending
- A signal that has been scored but not yet considered for execution.
- Portfolio pass
- One full execution of the decide phase, recorded as a brief + run.
S
- Scorer version
- Identifier of the scoring prompt/model combo, stamped on every signal.
- Session
- One of the three daily windows (Asia / EU / US opens).
- Session budget
- Max USD the agent may deploy in a single session.
- Signal
- One news item scored by the AI with direction, confidence and reasoning.
- SL / TP
- Stop-loss and take-profit prices applied to each open position.
T
- Target book
- What the AI wants the portfolio to look like after the current pass.
- Trigger
- Why a pass ran — scheduled session, breaking news, event cluster, imminent event.
V
- Verdict
- Per-position call: hold, trim or close, with a one-sentence reason.