The structured trading glossary is live. Around fifty terms, each defined in two or three sentences, without folklore and without detours: reading the market, execution and risk, prop firms, futures, and the six main Ephore indicators. It is a free reference page, and it will keep growing.
Why a glossary
Because trading vocabulary has become an obstacle in itself. Between the buzzwords, the acronyms and the terms every educator redefines their own way, a beginner spends more time decoding jargon than understanding ideas. And jargon has a perverse effect: it makes confusion pass for depth. A notion you cannot explain in three simple sentences is, most of the time, a notion you have not understood.
The glossary takes the opposite path. Every term is defined in plain language, with its limits made explicit: what a support indicates, and what it does not guarantee. What confluence ranks, and what it does not predict. You will notice that many definitions end with what the notion does NOT do: that is deliberate. Half of all trading mistakes come from making tools say more than they actually say.
How to use it
Three concrete uses:
As a side reference. You run into a fuzzy term in an article, a video, a forum thread: the glossary's table of contents takes you to its definition in two clicks. Every term has its own anchor, hence its own link, which you can share as is.
As a vocabulary check. Before using a term in your trading journal, check that you are using it in its precise sense. A journal written with fuzzy vocabulary produces fuzzy reviews.
As an entry path. The "Reading the market" section also reads in order, from the first term to the last: it walks through the building blocks of structured market reading in the order they fit together. Twenty definitions later, you have the skeleton of the method.
What the glossary is not
It is not a course. A definition gives you the meaning of a term, not the skill of using it: knowing what confluence is and judging one on a live chart are two different things. And it is not a frozen document: the prop firm terms, in particular, point to the firms' official rules because those rules change regularly, and no glossary should ever substitute for the source.
Missing a word?
The glossary will grow with real questions. If you hit a term that is not in it, write to us: if it is missing for you, it is probably missing for others. Upcoming blog articles will systematically link to the relevant definitions, and every new concept covered in depth will earn its entry.
Futures trading involves substantial risk of capital loss. This article is educational and does not constitute investment advice.
Published August 6, 2026.