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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 generation platform Alpha model Alpha signal Alternative data AMM API key App Chain Arrow Auto-compounding Automated trading strategy Autonomous agent Avalanche

    B

    Backtest Backtrader Base token Bear market Best trading algorithm Blockchain snapshot BNB Chain Bollinger bands Bonding curve Bucket Bull market

    C

    Candle Carried interest CEX CLMM Clone Compound Cross validation Crystallisation CSV Cumulative profit Cumulative return Curl Custodial Cycle duration

    D

    Dataclass Dataset Dataset server Decentralised exchange Decentralised finance DeFi Deterministic DEX Directional strategy Docker Dollar cost averaging (DCA) Drawdown

    E

    EMA Environment file Enzyme protocol Equity curve ERC-20 Erigon EVM EVM-compatible Exposure

    F

    Face value Factor investing Fair value Fastquant Fee model 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 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 neutral strategy Market order Market trade Maximum Drawdown Mean reversion Mercenary capital MEV Mid Price Momentum

    N

    Native token Netflow NFT Non-custodial Notebook

    O

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

    P

    Pandas Parquet Passive strategy Performance fee Pine Script Poetry 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

    Rebalance Rebase token Regularization Relative strength index (RSI) Reserve currency Risk of ruin Risk-adjusted return Risk-free rate Rug pull RWA

    S

    Sentiment analysis Sharpe Shorting Slippage Smart contract Sortino Spot market Stablecoin Statistical arbitrage Statistical modeling Stop loss Storj Strategy Strategy age Strategy cycle 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 Token Token distribution Token tax Total equity Total value locked 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 Unsupervised learning USDC

    V

    Vault Visual Studio Code

    W

    Wallet WalletConnect Web3 Weight allocation

    X

    XY liquidity model

    Y

    Yield farming

    Z

    zstd