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Knowledge Base

Crypto Trading Glossary

The terms MidasFlow agents actually use โ€” defined in plain English. Updated June 11, 2026

POC (Point of Control)

The price level with the highest traded volume in a Volume Profile. Price tends to gravitate back to the POC, which makes it a natural magnet level for entries, targets and invalidation.

Value Area

The price range containing roughly 70% of traded volume around the POC. Trading inside the value area means consolidation; acceptance outside it often starts a directional move.

Order Block

The last opposing candle (or zone) before a strong institutional move. Smart Money Concepts treats order blocks as footprints of large orders โ€” price frequently returns to them before continuing.

Liquidity Sweep

A quick push through an obvious level (equal highs/lows, round numbers) that triggers resting stop-losses, fills large orders with that liquidity, and reverses. A classic smart-money entry pattern.

Market Structure (BOS / ChoCH)

The sequence of swing highs and lows. A Break of Structure (BOS) continues the trend; a Change of Character (ChoCH) is the first crack signalling a possible reversal.

Fair Value Gap (FVG)

A price gap left by a fast impulsive candle where almost no trading happened. Price often "rebalances" by revisiting the gap before resuming the move.

OBV (On-Balance Volume)

A running total that adds volume on up-closes and subtracts it on down-closes. Rising OBV while price stays flat is a typical accumulation tell โ€” one of the inputs of our accumulation detector.

CVD (Cumulative Volume Delta)

The running difference between market buy and market sell volume. CVD shows who is hitting the tape: rising CVD with flat price means aggressive buyers are being absorbed.

Open Interest (OI)

The number of outstanding derivative contracts. Rising OI with rising price = new money fuelling the move; falling OI on a rally = short covering, a weaker signal.

Funding Rate

The periodic payment between longs and shorts on perpetual futures. Extreme funding shows a crowded side of the boat โ€” a contrarian risk input.

Liquidation Heatmap

A map of price levels where leveraged positions get force-closed. Clusters of liquidations act as liquidity pools that price is often drawn toward.

Whale Wall

An unusually large limit order visible in the order book. Walls can defend a level โ€” or be spoofed and pulled; our agents track whether walls actually absorb volume.

Pump Phase: Ignition

The moment buying pressure breaks the symbol out of accumulation with rising volume. In MidasFlow phase labels, IGNITION with rising price is the primary entry window.

Pump Phase: FOMO

The vertical, late stage of a pump driven by retail chasing. Entries here carry the worst risk-reward; the detector flags it to discourage chasing.

Pump Phase: Exhaustion

Volume and momentum fade while price stalls โ€” the distribution stage where early buyers exit. A common shorting or exit zone, not an entry.

Cross-Exchange Propagation

How coordinated buying spreads between venues. MidasFlow times this spread across 9+ exchanges; moves often appear on smaller venues up to 30 seconds before Binance.

Fade (failed signal)

An early warning that never develops into a real move. Roughly 30โ€“40% of early detections fade โ€” a number we publish and factor into the decision framework.

Liquidity Tier

Our size classification of a symbol (LARGE / MID / SMALL / MICRO) based on real order book depth. Tier drives position-size limits and stop width in the risk rules.

Slippage

The difference between the expected and the actual fill price. On thin small-cap books slippage can eat the entire edge of a correct signal โ€” the main reason micro-tier rules are strict.

Cooldown

The adaptive pause before the same symbol can alert again. It grows with each repeat signal within one move and resets when price moves >0.5% in a new direction.

Smart Money Concepts (SMC)

An umbrella framework for reading institutional footprints: order blocks, liquidity sweeps, fair value gaps and market structure. MidasFlow dedicates a full agent to it โ€” see the SMC Trader hub at /agents/smc-trader.

Volume Profile

The distribution of traded volume across price levels, revealing where the market actually did business. The MidasFlow Volume Profile agent (/agents/volume-profile) turns it into the POC and value-area levels used in every report.

VWAP (Volume-Weighted Average Price)

The running average price weighted by volume โ€” the institutional benchmark for "fair" intraday price. Price far above VWAP is stretched; reclaiming VWAP after a flush is a classic strength tell.

Liquidation Cascade

A chain reaction where forced closures push price into the next cluster of liquidations, accelerating the move. The Liquidation Tracker agent (/agents/liquidation-tracker) maps where cascades can ignite.

Stop Hunt

A deliberate push through a level dense with stop-losses to harvest that liquidity before the real move โ€” the aggressive cousin of the liquidity sweep. Recognizing one in progress separates entries from exit liquidity.

False Breakout

A break of a key level that fails and snaps back, trapping breakout traders. MidasFlow's Breakout Hunter agent filters candidates by volume confirmation specifically to avoid these.

Absorption

Heavy market selling (or buying) hitting a level that refuses to move โ€” passive size is eating the flow. One of the strongest order-flow tells the Whale Detector (/agents/whale-detector) watches for.

Spoofing

Placing large orders with no intention to fill them, purely to intimidate. Spoofed walls vanish when price approaches; MidasFlow discounts walls that never absorb actual volume.

Delta Divergence

Price makes a new high while cumulative volume delta (CVD) does not โ€” aggression is fading even as price ticks up. A classic exhaustion warning used in pump-phase analysis (/knowledge-base/pump-phases).

Long/Short Ratio

The proportion of accounts or volume positioned long versus short on derivatives. Extreme one-sided readings often precede squeezes in the opposite direction โ€” crowding is risk.

Fear & Greed Index

A composite gauge of market-wide emotion from volatility, momentum, volume and social data. MidasFlow's Fear & Greed agent adds historical context: the same reading means different things in different regimes.

Multi-Timeframe Confluence

When independent signals align across timeframes โ€” e.g. a 15m order block inside a 4h demand zone. The MTF Analyzer agent scores this alignment across 5 timeframes; confluence raises consensus confidence.

Risk-Reward Ratio (R:R)

Potential profit divided by potential loss as defined by your target and stop. A 60% win rate loses money at R:R 1:2 against you; sizing and targets matter more than being right.

Take Profit / Stop Loss (TP/SL)

Pre-committed exit prices for profit and loss. Every MidasFlow Pro/VIP analysis includes calculated TP/SL levels derived from the level map โ€” risk defined before entry, not improvised after.

Position Sizing

Deciding how much to risk per trade. MidasFlow's framework ties size to liquidity tier (smaller and tighter on SMALL/MICRO) โ€” see /knowledge-base/risk-management.

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