Trading
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Perp (perpetual contract) | A contract that follows an asset’s price and never expires. You can go long or short. You do not own the asset |
| Stock-linked perp | A Hyperliquid contract that follows a stock’s price. It is not a share and gives no ownership of the company |
| Leverage | Holding a bigger position than your deposit. 10x means a position 10 times your margin. It magnifies gains and losses |
| Margin | The money you set aside to back a leveraged position |
| Liquidation | When a position loses so much that the exchange closes it. You can lose all the margin on that position, and on cross margin your whole account balance |
| Funding | A regular payment between longs and shorts that keeps a perp’s price near the asset’s price. You may pay or receive it |
| Builder fee | The small fee AlphaYou charges on each trade made through it. Hyperliquid charges its own fees too |
| Non-custodial | AlphaYou never holds your funds. They stay in your own wallet |
| Trade-only key | A separate key that lets AlphaYou place and manage trades for you but never withdraw. It expires after 90 days and is renewed automatically |
Copy trading
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Copy trading | Your account automatically mirrors another trader’s trades |
| Full-book and Forward-only | 2 ways to start a copy: take on the trader’s current positions, or follow only what they do from now |
| Basket | A ready-made, multi-asset portfolio you buy directly. It is not a bundle of traders |
| Worst dip | The biggest fall from a peak to a low |
| Sharpe | Return relative to how bumpy the ride was |
Research
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Smart money | What Congress, insiders, funds, influencers, government-contract winners and top traders are doing |
| Form 4 | The filing an executive, director or 10% owner makes with the SEC after trading their company’s stock. Public up to 2 business days after the trade |
| 10b5-1 plan | A trading schedule an insider sets in advance. It says less than a trade chosen on the day |
| Insider cluster | Several different insiders at one company buying, or selling, in a short window. A plain count, not a prediction |
| 13F | The quarterly filing big funds make with the SEC listing their long US stock positions. Filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends |
| 8-K | The notice a US-listed company files with the SEC when something material happens |
| STOCK Act | The law that makes members of Congress report their stock trades, up to 45 days after the trade |
Data and API
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CIK | The SEC’s ID number for a filer |
| CUSIP | The ID code of a security |
| MCP | Model Context Protocol, the standard way an AI assistant calls outside tools |
| API key | The secret you send with API calls. It starts with ay_. Treat it like a password |