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    DeFi and trading dictionary

    Browser explanations for different decentralised finance (DeFi) and technical trading terms.

    This dictionary has been compiled to help newcomers to get quickly familiar with decentralised finance, decentralised exchanges, trading strategies and algorithmic trading.

    A

    Aave Active strategy Aggregate return Airdrop Algorithmic trading Alpha Alpha generation platform Alpha model Alpha signal Alternative data AMM Annual Percentage Rate (APR) Annual Percentage Yield (APY) Apache Arrow API key App Chain APR APY Arrow Auto-compounding Automated trading strategy Autonomous agent Avalanche Average Directional Index (ADX) Average True Range (ATR)

    B

    Backtest Backtrader Base blockchain Base token Bear market Benchmark Best trading algorithm Best trading strategy Bid-Ask Spread Blockchain snapshot BNB Chain BNB Smart Chain Bollinger bands Bonding curve Bucket Bull market Buy and hold

    C

    CAGR Candle Carried interest Carry trade Cash and carry CEX CLMM Clone Closed position Composability Compound Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) Continuous trading Credit market Cross validation Crystallisation CSV Cumulative profit Cumulative return Curl Custodial Cycle duration

    D

    Dataclass Dataset Dataset server Decentralised exchange Decentralised finance DeFi Delta neutral Deterministic DEX Directional strategy Discrete trading Discretionary investment management Docker Dollar cost averaging (DCA) Drawdown

    E

    EMA Environment file Enzyme protocol Equity curve ERC-20 Erigon Ethena Ether EVM EVM-compatible Excess returns Exposure

    F

    Face value Factor investing Fair value Fastquant Fee model FinRL Fork Forward fill Fundamental analysis Futures

    G

    Gas fee GM Google Colab Grid search

    H

    Heatmap High-frequency trading Historical market data Honey pot Hyperparameter optimization HyperSDK

    I

    IndexVM

    J

    JSON JSON-RPC JSONL Jupyter notebook

    L

    Last trade Lending pool Lending protocol Leverage Limit order Liquidation Liquidity Liquidity mining Liquidity pool Liquidity provider Longing Look-ahead bias Loss function

    M

    Machine learning Management fee Margin trading Market data feed Market Exposure Market making Market neutral strategy Market order Market regime Market Sentiment Market trade Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE) Maximum Drawdown Maximum pullback Mean Mean reversion Median Mercenary capital MEV Mid Price Momentum Money Flow Index (MFI)

    N

    Native token Netflow NFT Non-custodial Notebook

    O

    Off-chain OHLCV On-chain Open position Options Oracle Order book Overfitting

    P

    Pandas Parquet Passive strategy Performance fee Pine Script Poetry Portfolio Portfolio construction Position Position sizing Price impact Private strategy Private trading strategy Profitability Protocol Protocol fee Public trading strategy PyArrow PyCharm Python

    Q

    QSTrader Quant Quantitative analysis Quantitative finance Quantstats Quote token

    R

    Real yield Realised profit and loss Realised risk Rebalance Rebase token Regime filter Regularization Reinforced learning Relative strength index (RSI) Reserve currency Risk of ruin Risk-adjusted return Risk-free rate RSI Rug pull RWA

    S

    Sentiment analysis Sharpe Shorting Slippage Smart contract Sortino Spot market Spot-forward basis Stablecoin Standard Deviation Statistical arbitrage Statistical modeling Stochastic oscillator Stochastic RSI indicator Stop loss Storj Strategy Strategy age Strategy cycle Strategy decay Strategy developer Supervised learning Survivorship bias Sushi Swap Swap fee Swing trading Systematic trading

    T

    Tactical asset allocation Take Profit Technical analysis Technical indicator Test set Time frame Time in Market Token Token distribution Token tax Total equity Total value locked (TVL) Trade frequency Trades last week Trading algorithm Trading pair Trading signal Trading strategy Trading Strategy client Trading Strategy Framework Trading Strategy Protocol Trading universe TradingView Traditional finance Trailing stop loss Training set Transaction cost Trend Trend analysis Trend-following TWAP

    U

    Uniswap Unrealised profit and loss Unrealised risk Unsupervised learning USDC

    V

    Variance Vault Visual Studio Code Volatility Volume

    W

    Wallet WalletConnect Web3 Weight allocation

    X

    XY liquidity model

    Y

    Yield farming

    Z

    zstd