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Glossary

Stock signal terms

Plain definitions for the language used across this guide. Where a term has a test behind it, the entry points to the page that develops it.

Stock signal

A published, real-time instruction to consider a trade in a named security - ticker, direction, entry, target and stop - meant to be acted on or passed over, not handed to someone else to execute.

Swing trade

A position held longer than a session but well short of an investment - roughly one to four weeks on the flagship model - aiming to capture a single leg of a move. See: the flagship by record.

Mean reversion

Trading a price that has stretched unusually far from a typical level on the expectation it snaps back; the recommended models apply that idea on four different holding clocks.

Track record

The full history of past calls, winners and losers together, which is only informative when the losing calls are left in and the period is continuous. See: a re-runnable track record.

Independent review

An examination of the underlying statements by a named third party with no commercial stake in the result - distinct from a leaderboard ranking or a testimonial. See: how to verify a record.

Cryptographic timestamp

A hash of a call written to a public ledger at publication, proving the call existed in exactly that form at that moment and was not altered afterward. See: sealed before the close.

Conviction grade

An A-to-D label marking how strong a call is relative to its own model's measured return distribution; there is no E grade. See: grades that are measured.

Drawdown

The deepest peak-to-trough fall over a period - a more honest read on the risk in a strategy than the headline return.

Win rate

The share of calls that closed profitably - trustworthy only when the total signal count is shown beside it. See: why a win rate needs a denominator.