Tradeiz · Glossary

Definitions here are educational summaries, not investment advice. For venue-specific contract specs, always confirm with the exchange or protocol documentation.

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Market & derivatives

Basis

The spread between a perpetual (or futures) price and the underlying spot or index. Persistent positive basis can accompany bullish positioning; negative basis the opposite.

Funding interval

How often a venue settles funding payments — commonly every 1h, 4h or 8h depending on the exchange or DEX. Tradeiz normalises rates for cross-venue comparison.

Funding rate

A periodic payment exchanged between long and short positions on a perpetual contract. A positive rate means longs pay shorts; a negative rate means shorts pay longs.

Index price

A composite spot reference built from multiple exchanges or oracles. Venues use it to compute mark price and fair-value funding.

Leverage

Borrowed notional relative to posted margin. Higher leverage amplifies PnL and liquidation risk; Tradeiz surfaces positioning and liquidation metrics but does not offer leverage itself.

See also: Liquidation, Maintenance margin

Liquidation

Forced closure of a leveraged position when margin falls below the maintenance requirement. Liquidation events appear in Tradeiz liquidation feeds and heatmaps.

See also: Liquidation cascade, Mark price

Liquidation cascade

A chain reaction where forced closes push price further, triggering additional liquidations. Clusters are visible in cross-venue liquidation dashboards.

Long/short ratio

The proportion of accounts or volume positioned long versus short on a venue. Extreme readings can flag crowded trades in sentiment dashboards.

See also: Sentiment dashboard, Open interest

Maintenance margin

Minimum collateral required to keep a leveraged position open. Falling below it triggers liquidation at the venue — not on Tradeiz.

Mark price

The fair-value reference price venues use for unrealised PnL and liquidation triggers, often derived from an index plus a basis component. Differs from last traded price during stress.

Open interest (OI)

The total number of outstanding perpetual contracts that have not been closed. Rising OI with price often signals new positioning; falling OI can mean positions are being unwound.

Perpetual

A derivative contract with no fixed expiry that tracks an underlying index price. Perpetual swaps use funding payments to keep the contract price aligned with spot.

Order flow & microstructure

Aggressor side

Whether a trade lifted the offer (buy aggressor) or hit the bid (sell aggressor). Tradeiz tags prints for delta and large-trade analytics.

Delta (order flow)

Net aggressive buy volume minus aggressive sell volume over a window. Positive delta suggests buyers hitting the offer; negative delta suggests sellers hitting the bid.

Depth

Resting limit orders on the book at each price level. Depth heatmaps visualise where liquidity sits and how it changes over time.

Footprint

An order-flow chart overlay showing bid/ask volume traded inside each candle, often split by price level. Helps intraday traders see absorption and aggression.

Large trades

Individual fills that exceed a venue- or user-defined notional threshold. Surfaced in the Large Trades feed and as on-chart markers.

Order book

The live queue of bid and ask limit orders for a symbol. Tradeiz streams normalised depth snapshots and updates from supported venues.

Order flow

The sequence and size of aggressive and passive trades plus book changes. Order-flow tools help read who is initiating and where liquidity is consumed.

Volume profile

A histogram of volume traded at each price level over a chosen range. Highlights value areas and high-volume nodes on the chart.

Venues & data model

CEX

Centralised exchange — a custodial venue that matches orders on its own infrastructure (e.g. Binance, OKX, Bybit).

Cross-venue

Metrics or views that aggregate or compare multiple exchanges under the same symbol and timeframe — funding, OI, liquidations and positioning dashboards.

DEX

Decentralised exchange or on-chain perpetual protocol where settlement occurs on a blockchain or app-chain (e.g. Hyperliquid, dYdX).

Normalised schema

Tradeiz’s unified field naming and units across venues so the same API query or chart symbol works regardless of upstream exchange quirks.

Real-time feed

Low-latency market data delivered over WebSocket with near-exchange timestamps. Used by the chart workspace and programmatic stream clients.

Tradeiz product

Alert

A rule that notifies you when price, indicator or platform conditions are met. Delivery channels vary by subscription tier.

API key

A secret token that authenticates programmatic access to Tradeiz REST and WebSocket endpoints. Scoped by entitlements and rate limits per key.

Chart workspace

Tradeiz’s multi-pane chart desk: layouts, watchlists, drawings, indicators, alerts and optional YeScript panels on live market data.

Entitlement

A feature flag tied to your subscription plan — which indicators, data feeds, AI quotas or API limits are unlocked.

Funding arbitrage

Strategies that exploit funding-rate differentials between venues or between perp and spot. Tradeiz’s DEX Funding Arb page surfaces live spreads for research.

Heatmap

Colour-coded grids (e.g. RSI Heatmap, liquidation heatmap) that surface outliers and regime shifts across many symbols at once.

Layout

A saved arrangement of chart panes, symbols and settings tied to your account and restorable across sessions.

Pressure Watch

Tradeiz’s squeeze / pressure dashboard highlighting crowded positioning, funding extremes and liquidation risk clusters.

REST API

Tradeiz’s HTTP JSON API for historical and snapshot market data, reference metadata and account-scoped endpoints where applicable.

Screener

A filterable table of symbols ranked by price change, volume, funding, OI and other metrics across venues.

Sentiment dashboard

Cross-market positioning and mood views — long/short ratios, funding & OI composites and related sentiment metrics.

See also: Long/short ratio, Pressure Watch

Tradeiz AI

The in-chart AI assistant that helps interpret market context, draft YeScript and answer product questions. Outputs are informational, not trade recommendations.

Watchlist

A user-curated list of symbols for quick navigation in the chart and research pages.

WebSocket streams

Low-latency push channels for trades, depth, liquidations and other live feeds. Documented alongside the REST API for programmatic access.

YeScript

Tradeiz’s scripting language for strategy logic, custom indicators and alerts inside the chart runtime. Community scripts can be shared on the YeScript hub.