1. Glossary

Definitions of terms used throughout these docs.

Chart and workspace

• Pane — a single chart within the workspace, with its own timeframe, series type, indicators, and drawings.
• Active pane — the focused pane (amber border) that most actions target. See Multi-Pane Layouts.
• Timeframe — the time span each bar covers (1M … 1W). See Symbols & Timeframes.
• Series type — how price is drawn (candles, bars, line, Heikin Ashi, …). See Chart Types & Volume.
• Candle info line — the status line showing the hovered bar's OHLC, change, and volume.
• Layout — the arrangement of panes; can be saved. See Saved Workspace Layouts.

Indicators

• Indicator / study — a technical calculation plotted on the chart.
• Overlay — an indicator drawn on the price pane (e.g. a moving average).
• Own-pane study — an indicator drawn in its own sub-pane (e.g. RSI).
• Chart pattern — an automatically detected price formation (flag, head-and-shoulders, …). See Chart Patterns.

Data

• Provider — the source of market data: Massive (equities) or Binance (crypto). See Data Providers Overview.
• Frontend / backend mode — whether provider requests run from the browser or through the app's server routes.
• Realtime / delayed — how fresh the streaming feed is (depends on your Massive plan).
• Forming vs. confirmed bar — the current bar is forming until its interval closes, then confirmed.

Backtesting

• Strategy — authored code that places trades over historical bars. See Writing Strategies.
• Backtest — a run of a strategy against history producing trades, equity, and stats.
• Equity curve — cumulative account value over the test.
• Buy-and-hold — the benchmark of simply holding the instrument over the same period.
• Drawdown — a peak-to-trough decline in equity.
• Pyramiding — the maximum number of same-direction entries allowed.
• OCA / OCO — one-cancels-all order groups, used for brackets.
• Slippage — a modeled adverse adjustment to fill price.

AI assistant

• Read tool — an action the assistant uses to observe the chart; runs immediately.
• Write tool — a proposed change queued for your approval (Apply). See Applying AI Chart Actions.

Authoring

• Authoring engine — the shared compiler/runtime for custom indicators and strategies. See Authoring Language & Syntax.
• next(ctx) — the per-bar hook that runs once for each bar, oldest to newest.
• Composition — consuming one indicator (or pattern) from another indicator or a strategy. See Composing Indicators & Patterns.

Personalization

• Theme mode — light, dark, or auto.
• Palette — a named color scheme (e.g. Dracula). See Themes & Palettes.
• Watchlist — a saved group of symbols. See Watchlists Overview.

Next steps

Next: Keyboard Shortcuts