Ticker
Also called: symbol
The short code that identifies a market, like BTC-USD.
In practice: The part before the dash is the asset (BTC); the part after is what it's priced in (US dollars).
Timeframe
The window of history a chart shows — a day, a week, a year.
In practice: Changing it changes what you see, not what the market did. The same asset can look calm on 1Y and wild on 1D.
Candlestick
Also called: candles, OHLC
A chart mark showing four prices for one period: open, high, low, and close.
In practice: The Candles/Line toggle on every chart switches between this and a simple line of closing prices.
Full article: Reading a candlestick chart →
Fibonacci retracement
Also called: Fib
Horizontal levels drawn at fixed ratios between a range's low and high.
In practice: An optional overlay on Aureus charts, off by default. The levels matter to the extent that many traders watch them — a convention, not a law of nature.
What it is not: Not a forecast, and not a claim that the price will react at any level.
Full article: Fibonacci retracement — a convention, not a forecast →
Day range
The lowest and highest prices traded over the last 24 hours.
In practice: It shows how much the price swung recently; the last price sits somewhere inside the band. Crypto trades around the clock, so the window is a rolling day, not an exchange session.
What it is not: Not a boundary — prices leave the recent range all the time.
Volume
How much of an asset changed hands in a period.
In practice: High volume means the current price was set by many trades; thin volume means fewer participants stood behind it.
What it is not: Not a direction — heavy trading happens in falls as often as in rallies.
Market cap
Also called: market capitalization
The current price multiplied by the number of units in circulation.
In practice: On a quote page it tells you the scale of the asset — a $1.2T market cap moves differently from a $6B one, because it takes far more money to move it.
What it is not: Not price times every coin that will ever exist — that larger number is the fully diluted valuation, and in crypto the gap between the two can be big. Also not money anyone actually paid: nobody bought the whole supply at today's price.
Previous close
The reference price today's change is measured against.
In practice: The “+2.1%” on a row means “versus this number.” For markets with a closing bell it's yesterday's close; crypto trades around the clock, so here it's the price about 24 hours ago.
24h change
The price's move over the last 24 hours, as a percent.
In practice: Crypto trades around the clock, so Aureus uses a rolling 24 hours rather than an exchange's opening bell.
7-day trend
Also called: sparkline
A small chart of the last seven days of price.
In practice: It shows the recent shape at a glance — direction and roughness, not precise levels.
Movers
The symbols that moved the most over the last 24 hours.
In practice: A ranking by size of change, up or down. Being a mover says the price moved — nothing about why, or what happens next.
Gainers & losers
Gainers are up over the last 24 hours; losers are down.
In practice: It's a filter on the same list — a lens, not a judgment about what to do.
Watchlist
The symbols you've chosen to track.
In practice: Star a symbol on its page to add it; it then appears under the Watchlist filter on Markets.
“As of”
Also called: staleness
The time a price was last refreshed, shown beside the price.
In practice: Aureus prices refresh on a stated cadence rather than streaming live, and every list says when and how often. If a refresh fails, the time visibly ages and the list says “may be delayed”.