Glossary
Every term Aureus uses, in plain language. A definition explains what a thing means — never whether to use it.
Your portfolio
- EquityThe total value of a portfolio right now — cash plus everything held, at current prices.
- Cash & buying powerThe cash available to open new positions.
- PositionA holding in one symbol: how many units you own and what you paid for them on average.
- ValueWhat a position is worth right now: quantity times the current price.
- Day changeHow much a value moved over the last 24 hours, in money and percent.
- Open P&LProfit or loss on positions you still hold — “open” because you haven't sold.
- Realized P&LProfit or loss locked in by selling, measured against your average cost.
- Average costThe average price you paid per unit, across every buy in the position.
- Reset practiceReturns your practice cash to its starting balance and clears open positions.
Trading
- FillThe completion of a trade at a specific price.
- QuantityHow many units a trade buys or sells.
- Practice feeThe 0.40% fee Aureus charges on practice crypto trades, modeled on real exchange rates.
- Limit orderAn order that names your own price instead of taking whatever the market is at right now.
- Take-profitA resting sell above the current price. It fills at your price or better, or not at all.
- StopA level resting below your position that turns into a market order when the price reaches it.
- BracketTwo exits resting over one position — a take-profit above and a stop below — where whichever fills first cancels the other.
- SpreadThe gap between the highest price buyers offer and the lowest price sellers ask.
Markets & charts
- TickerThe short code that identifies a market, like BTC-USD.
- TimeframeThe window of history a chart shows — a day, a week, a year.
- CandlestickA chart mark showing four prices for one period: open, high, low, and close.
- Fibonacci retracementHorizontal levels drawn at fixed ratios between a range's low and high.
- Day rangeThe lowest and highest prices traded over the last 24 hours.
- VolumeHow much of an asset changed hands in a period.
- Market capThe current price multiplied by the number of units in circulation.
- Previous closeThe reference price today's change is measured against.
- 24h changeThe price's move over the last 24 hours, as a percent.
- 7-day trendA small chart of the last seven days of price.
- MoversThe symbols that moved the most over the last 24 hours.
- Gainers & losersGainers are up over the last 24 hours; losers are down.
- WatchlistThe symbols you've chosen to track.
- “As of”The time a price was last refreshed, shown beside the price.
The Read
- The ReadAureus's reading of the language in recent news headlines about a symbol.
- ToneHow positive or negative the wording of headlines reads, from −1 to +1.
- Bullish / BearishBullish means expecting or describing rising prices; bearish, falling ones.
- ConfidenceHow much weight a reading deserves, based on how many headlines it rests on and whether the two readers agree.
- DisagreementWhen the tone reader and the financial-language reader score the same headlines in opposite directions.
- No coverage vs. news unreachable“No coverage” means the news was checked and nothing recent was found; “news unreachable” means the check itself failed.
- AI readingA written explanation of why the headlines read the way they do, generated by an AI model.