POC
GLOSSARY

Trading,
in plain English.

Every term the industry uses to sound clever, explained plainly. 34 of them.

34 of 34 terms
Basics
Compounding→Edge→Expectancy→Leverage→Long / Short→Margin→Risk-to-reward (R)→Stop-loss→Take-profit→Win rate→
Risk
Drawdown→Kelly criterion→Position size→Risk of ruin→Sequence of returns→Volatility→Volatility drag→
Testing an edge
Backtest→Data-mining→Monte Carlo→Out-of-sample→Overfitting (curve-fitting)→Sample size→Sharpe ratio→Survivorship bias→
Costs
Commission→Friction→Slippage→Spread→
Markets
Liquidity→Mean reversion→Momentum (trend)→Point of Control (POC)→Value area→