Trading Glossary

An early signal. The trend has flipped on your timeframe, but the broader trend has not agreed yet. A better price, with more risk.

A confirmed signal. The flip on your timeframe and the broader trend agree. A later entry, and the setup the system rates higher.

The moment the trend changes direction. Whip Trend Confirmation labels each flip once, so a new label means the trend actually changed.

A label can appear and disappear while a candle is still forming. Once the candle closes, the label is final and does not change. Act on closed candles.

Waiting for a second, independent condition to agree before acting on a signal, such as a trend flip plus the broader trend. Fewer trades, fewer false starts.

The main Whip Trend Core reading: buying pressure minus selling pressure. Above 0, buyers are winning. Below 0, sellers are.

Readings between -2 and +2. Neither side has a clear edge, so expect chop and wait for a break above +2 or below -2.

A reading beyond the saturation level (±8 by default). The move is stretched. It is a reason to stop chasing, not a signal that the trend will turn.

Bars in the Trend Core panel showing who is pushing hard right now. Purple for buyers, black for sellers. Shrinking columns mean the push is fading.

Price makes a new high or low but the Trend line does not. The push behind the move is weakening, which often shows up before a flip.

An adaptive band around price: a center line (fair value) with upper and lower boundaries. Near a boundary, price is stretched; at the center, it has room both ways.

The channel narrows to one of its tightest widths in a while. The market is quiet and coiling, and a bigger move often follows, in either direction.

Price closes outside the range and the channel widens in that direction. Breakouts without a confirmed signal fail more often.

Prices where buyers (support, below price) or sellers (resistance, above price) stepped in before. S1 and R1 are the nearest; S2 and R2 the next.

A level more than one timeframe agrees on, tagged like (1H/4H) and drawn thicker. Usually the strongest levels on the chart.

A level price recently crossed, drawn dashed and stopping where price crossed it. Old resistance often becomes support, and the reverse.

A level price has not reacted to for a long time, drawn more faintly. It may matter less now.

Reading the same market on more than one timeframe: 4H for direction, 1H for confirmation and 30m for timing. A 30m signal against the 4H trend is usually a pullback.

The average size of each candle, a measure of volatility. Used to set stops that sit outside normal noise and to compare markets.

What you lose if the stop is hit compared with what you make at the target. A 4.00 stop and a 12.00 target is 1 : 3.

How much to buy or sell so a stop-out costs a planned amount: the money you will risk divided by the distance from entry to stop.

Leverage lets a smaller deposit (margin) control a larger position: $1,000 at 10x controls $10,000. It changes the margin you put up, not the dollars lost at the stop.

Where an exchange closes a leveraged position because the margin is used up. At 10x on isolated margin it sits roughly 9 to 10% from entry.

The signals plan: real-time trading signals and market analysis in the WhipAlgo Discord, for when you want the setups found for you.

Everything in Whip Signals plus the three Whip indicators on your own TradingView charts, the setup guide and priority support.

A TradingView indicator you get access to by subscription. Once access is granted, it appears under Indicators, then Invite-only scripts.