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Account currency

The currency used to state the account balance and results. Values in other currencies need an explicit conversion.

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Account heat

In Risk Radar development, the calculated money that could be lost from current executable prices to valid stops, compared with balance/equity. Missing stops and unvalued rows are disclosed separately; it is not a maximum-loss guarantee.

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Acknowledgement

A response indicating that a request was received or accepted for processing. It is not proof that the requested trade was filled; the reported broker outcome must be checked.

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Actual / forecast / previous / revised

For an economic release: actual is the reported result; forecast is an estimate; previous is the earlier period; revised is a later correction. A surprise is a difference from expectations, not a trading instruction.

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Allowance

A stated extra amount reserved for a modelled cost or uncertainty. It is an assumption, not a guarantee.

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Armed setup

A prepared plan that you deliberately enable for its supported submission conditions. A saved draft is not armed. Account, symbol, expiry and the labelled build’s rules still apply.

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Artificial intelligence (AI)

Software methods used for tasks such as pattern recognition or generating text. The name does not prove accuracy, market foresight or a trading edge. Ask Sentinel currently uses local public-site answers, without a remote model.

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Ask

The quoted price at which you can normally buy, subject to available quantity and execution.

Illustrative example: With bid 100 and ask 101, a market buy normally starts from the ask side.

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Average loss

The total money lost on losing trades divided by the number of losing trades. Usually shown as a positive loss size; state the convention and cost treatment.

Illustrative example: Losses of £20 and £40 give an average loss size of £30.

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Average True Range

Average True Range (ATR) measures recent price-range size, including gaps. ATR(14) uses 14 bars under its stated calculation. It does not predict direction.

Illustrative example: Illustration: a larger ATR describes larger recent ranges, not a more profitable trade.

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Average win

The total profit from winning trades divided by the number of winning trades. State whether costs are included.

Illustrative example: Two wins of £10 and £30 have an average win of £20.

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Backend / adapter

The service and connecting software that relay supported requests and return status between a client and terminal. This is a dependency of web/Android development, not a claim that the desktop customer build sends data to Sentinel.

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Balance

The account total after recorded deposits, withdrawals, closed trades and other posted entries. It leaves out changing gains and losses on open trades.

Illustrative example: A £1,000 balance with an open trade losing £50 may show £950 equity, assuming no other adjustments.

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Base currency

The first currency in an FX pair. In EUR/USD, EUR is the base.

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Bid

The quoted price at which you can normally sell, subject to available quantity and execution.

Illustrative example: With bid 100 and ask 101, a market sell normally starts from the bid side.

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Branching paths

Different possible next steps depending on which condition is met. In the Playbook prototype these are alternative route options; its simple chart does not yet draw a complete multi-branch route map.

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Break-even trade

A closed trade with zero net profit or loss after all costs. A stop moved to the entry price is different: fees, financing or slippage can still leave a loss.

Illustrative example: Illustration: a result of 0 before a separate cost of 2 becomes a net loss of 2.

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Breakeven stop adjustment

A rule you configure to move a stop towards entry when its conditions are met. It is not the same as a trade that actually breaks even after costs, and it cannot guarantee no loss.

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Broker reconciliation

Comparing the request with authoritative orders, deals and positions reported by the connected terminal/broker. An unavailable record remains uncertain; it is not invented as success.

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Broker-aware normalisation

Adjusting the planned volume and levels to the broker’s allowed increments and limits. Review the resulting plan; rounding or constraints can change its size and risk.

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Candlestick / candle

A chart bar showing open, high, low and close for a time interval. The body compares open and close; wicks show the extremes. An unfinished candle changes as new data arrives.

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CAPTCHA

A challenge intended to distinguish automated submissions from people. It is not broker-account verification. The public enquiry form may require completing the provider’s challenge.

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CFD

A contract with a provider that settles price differences without transferring the underlying asset. Terms and regulation vary by provider and jurisdiction.

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Commission

A separate charge for a trade. Check whether it applies when opening, closing or both.

Illustrative example: A £2 opening charge and £2 closing charge cost £4 in total.

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Concentration

A large share of exposure or risk tied to the same instrument, currency or group. Several separate trades can still share one risk driver. Risk Radar groups only the categories supported by its development build.

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Confidence

How sure a learner reports being. Confidence is not correctness and should not alter a score by itself.

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Contract size

The quantity of the underlying unit represented by one contract or lot under the supplied specification.

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Conversion rate

A dated rate used to express one currency in another. State its orientation before multiplying or dividing.

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Correlation

How movements in two instruments have been related over a measured period. Positive correlation means they tended to move together; negative means oppositely. The relationship can change. Risk Radar development uses a bounded historical sample, not a forecast.

Illustrative example: Two instruments that often fall together may both lose money during the same event.

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Data processing agreement (DPA)

An agreement setting out how a service processes personal information on another organisation’s behalf. Mentioning it is not confirmation that a particular provider’s terms have been verified; see the privacy notice’s outstanding details.

Drawdown

A drop in account value from a stated earlier high to a later value. Check whether the rule measures balance or equity, and how money added or removed is handled.

Illustrative example: With no money added or removed, a fall from £1,000 to £900 is a £100 drawdown, or 10%.

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Dry run

A local rehearsal of the configured sequence, showing temporary state and proposed actions without sending live commands. It is not a historical backtest, a broker-connected test or evidence of profitability.

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Economic calendar

A schedule of economic announcements with their stated times and available reported/estimated values. Times and data can change. News context is information for review, not a signal or a guaranteed market reaction.

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Entry price

The planned or actual price at which a position begins. A planning line is not a submitted order, and a requested entry can differ from the actual fill.

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Equity

What the account is worth now, including profit or loss on trades that are still open and any other account adjustments.

Illustrative example: With a £1,000 balance and a £50 open loss, equity is £950 if there are no other adjustments.

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Event risk / caution window

The possibility of price jumps, wider spreads or difficult execution around an event. A caution window is a defined period to review that risk, not proof of what the market will do or a universal safe trading time.

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Executable side

The bid or ask that corresponds to the required buy or sell action, rather than a mid-price that may not be executable.

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Execution

The actual processing and trading of an order. A submission or acknowledgement is not a confirmed fill. Orders may be rejected, partially filled or remain uncertain until the connected trading system reports an outcome.

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Expectancy

The average result per trade across wins, losses and break-even trades. For a completed sample, add all results after costs and divide by the number of trades.

Illustrative example: If ten trades together make £50 after costs, the average result in that sample is £5 per trade.

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Expert Advisor (EA)

Software that runs inside MetaTrader and can perform the actions implemented in that build. “EA” does not itself mean trade recommendations or autonomous trade selection. Sentinel’s stated purpose is user-controlled tools.

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Exposure

The extent to which your positions are affected by market changes. It can be described by position value, direction or money at risk; these are different measures. Risk Radar development shows open/pending exposure and a proposed plan, within its documented scope.

Illustrative example: Two different trades can both lose when the same currency strengthens. Looking at them separately can hide the combined risk.

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Fair Value Gap (FVG)

A labelled candle-gap pattern detected under a stated rule. “Fair value” is the pattern name, not a verified valuation of the asset. A gap need not close or give a profitable trade.

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Fakeout

An apparent break beyond a level that then reverses under the chosen observation rule. It is a description made with context, not a reliable warning that the next move will reverse.

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Feature parity

Having the same supported behaviour on two platforms or builds. Similar screenshots or labels do not prove it. Sentinel’s features must be read against each platform’s reference/development status.

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Fibonacci drawing

A chart drawing placing levels at selected mathematical ratios between chosen points. These are reference levels for inspection, not proof of future support, resistance or profit.

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Fill

An actual execution of all or part of an order. An order request alone is not a fill.

Illustrative example: You request ten units, but only six trade immediately. Those six are a partial fill.

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Financing

A charge or credit for keeping a position past the broker’s daily cut-off, also called rollover. On many trading platforms this appears as swap. It can turn a price gain into an overall loss.

Illustrative example: A £100 gain from the executed prices minus £120 in separate overnight charges leaves a £20 loss, before any other separate fees.

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First-trigger behaviour

Within one Playbook prototype step, the first matching route can be selected and sibling routes cancelled under that step’s mode. Routes in other steps are independent. This is local design/dry-run behaviour, not broker execution.

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Forward demo

Applying frozen rules to new, arriving data in a simulated account. It remains simulation, not live performance.

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Gap

A jump between available prices. A protective order may fill beyond its trigger when no nearer price is available.

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Gross P/L

Profit or loss before the separate costs named in the calculation. Check which costs are already reflected in the prices used.

Illustrative example: If gross profit is £120 and separate fees are £20, net profit is £100.

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Hedging / netting account modes

Hedging accounts can hold separate opposing positions in one symbol. Netting combines deals into one net position per symbol. Supported controls and margin calculations depend on the account mode.

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Historical test

Applying rules to past data under declared timing, fill and cost assumptions.

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Holdout

Data kept unused during development and opened for a planned test. Repeated tuning on it destroys that role.

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Indicator

A transformation of supplied market inputs. Its lookback, timing, revision behaviour and overlap with other indicators matter.

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Instrument / symbol

The financial product being traded, identified by a platform symbol. Its contract size, price steps and costs must be checked. XAUUSD commonly labels gold priced in US dollars; the exact contract is broker-specific.

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Invalidation

A predeclared condition showing that the stated trade idea no longer meets its own rule.

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IP address

A network address used to route internet communications. It can be shared or change over time; it is not a precise identity or location. The privacy notice describes relevant website processing.

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

A text-based format for saving structured data. Playbook Builder’s separate prototype saves design-time steps, conditions, routes, next-step targets, labels and chart placement. Temporary dry-run state is excluded; a saved file does not execute trades.

Leverage

Controlling a position whose value is larger than the amount set aside to open it. Gains and losses are driven by the position size, not just that amount.

Illustrative example: If £100 supports a £1,000 position, the position is ten times that amount. This does not mean the loss is limited to £100.

Lifecycle

The sequence of states something passes through. For a chart object this can include creation, changes and archiving; for a trade it includes requests and reported events. It is not a promise of completed integration.

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Limit order

An order to transact at a stated price or better. Reaching the price does not always guarantee a fill.

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Liquidity

The ability to transact a quantity near available prices. A chart reaction alone does not reveal unseen orders.

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Long

A position that gains from a price rise and loses from a fall, before costs, for the stated instrument.

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Look-ahead bias

Using information in a decision or fill that was not available at that simulated time.

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Lot size

The volume of an order expressed in lots. One lot represents the instrument’s specified contract quantity, which varies by product and broker. It is not the same as margin or money at risk.

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Management policy

The rules and settings you assign for managing a position, such as stop movement or partial exits. In supported Sentinel development builds the assigned version remains distinct from later changes to chart defaults.

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Margin

Money required to open or maintain a position. It is not the same as the maximum money you could lose.

Illustrative example: A broker requiring £100 margin does not mean a losing trade must stop at £100.

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Margin pressure

How current and proposed margin requirements compare with available account resources. Risk Radar development states its account-mode assumptions; the figure is not a guaranteed broker acceptance or a loss limit.

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Market order

A request to transact promptly at available prices. It prioritises execution, not an exact price.

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MetaTrader / MT4 / MT5

A trading-platform family. MT4 and MT5 are different platforms with different builds and feature scope; they are not interchangeable. Reference or development evidence is not an approved customer release.

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Missing data

A required field that is absent or not authoritative. Stop and name it rather than inventing a value.

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MQL4 / MQL5

Programming languages for MetaTrader 4 and 5 respectively. Generated source code still needs inspection, compilation and testing for its intended platform; an export is not a qualified trading strategy.

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Net P/L

Profit or loss after costs. Include each cost once; do not subtract a cost again if it is already included in the recorded result.

Illustrative example: A £120 result before costs minus £20 of separate costs leaves £100 net profit.

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No-trade condition

A condition in your plan that tells you to stay out of the market.

Illustrative example: If your plan says to avoid a scheduled announcement, choosing not to enter during that window follows the rule.

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OHLC

The open, high, low and close recorded for a stated bar and time convention.

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Order

An instruction to buy, sell or change a trade. Submitting it does not mean it has been accepted or filled. Type, price, volume and broker rules matter.

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Original R

The cash risk recorded at the start of a trade. This fixed amount is the unit called 1R. Moving the stop later does not rewrite it.

Illustrative example: If original risk was £100, a £150 profit after costs is 1.5R. A £100 loss is −1R.

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Overfitting

Selecting details that fit the development sample unusually well but may not persist on new data.

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Parallel form

A different assessment form intended to examine the same objective. Equivalence needs review and evidence, not just a new label.

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Partial exit

Closing only part of a position, leaving the remainder exposed to price changes. Sentinel’s step-based MT5 development uses the original volume and a defined remaining portion; broker minimums still apply.

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Payoff ratio

Average winning-trade profit divided by average losing-trade loss size. It describes payoff size, not how often you win.

Illustrative example: An average £25 win divided by an average £100 loss gives 0.25. Four such wins offset one such loss before any additional costs.

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Pending order

An order waiting for its specified price condition. It is different from a submitted request whose outcome is still pending. Broker trigger and expiry rules apply.

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Pip

A quoted price increment defined for the supplied FX instrument, commonly 0.0001 or 0.01 but never to be assumed.

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Pip value

The money change for one pip at a stated position size, first in quote currency and then converted if needed.

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Planned trade risk

The money your chosen size and exit assumptions put at risk in the calculation. Costs, slippage and gaps can make actual loss larger. Sentinel helps calculate and apply your instructions; it does not choose the trade.

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Point

A price unit specified by the instrument and platform. Do not assume that a point and a pip mean the same thing.

Illustrative example: For the five-decimal EUR/USD example, one point is 0.00001 and one pip is 0.00010: ten points per pip. At 100,000 units, that is $1 per point and $10 per pip.

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Position

The amount of an instrument currently held after transactions. An open position still has changing profit or loss. A pending order is not yet an open position.

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Position size

How much you buy or sell. A larger size usually means the same price movement gains or loses more money.

Illustrative example: If two otherwise identical positions have sizes one and two, the larger one has twice the price-movement gain or loss before differences in costs.

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Position sizing

Choosing how much to buy or sell from your risk amount, stop distance, instrument value and costs. Calculated risk is an estimate under those assumptions; a fill or exit can differ.

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Preset / profile

A saved group of settings for later review and selection. Saving it does not place a trade or prove the settings are suitable. A named management policy can have its own revision.

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Profitability

Making more from trading than is lost and paid in costs over the period being measured. Deposits are not trading profit.

Illustrative example: £200 of winning results minus £150 of losing results and £20 of additional costs leaves £30 profit.

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Progressive Web App (PWA)

A website designed to offer some app-like behaviour, such as installation where supported. It is different from a native Android app. Sentinel’s member PWA is a future surface outside the public launch.

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Prop challenge / consistency rules

An account-evaluation programme’s stated targets and limits. Daily resets, drawdown basis, qualifying days and consistency definitions vary by provider. Sentinel’s configured monitoring does not certify compliance or guarantee a pass.

Protective stop

An instruction intended to close a trade if price reaches a level that limits further loss. The final execution price is not guaranteed.

Illustrative example: If price jumps past your stop level, the trade may close at a worse price than planned.

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Provenance

Where information or an image came from, when it was recorded and what it demonstrates. A genuine development screenshot is evidence of visible controls, not proof of every feature or a live trading result.

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Quote currency

The second currency in an FX pair. In EUR/USD, USD is the quote and states the price of one EUR.

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Range

A bounded price area defined by an explicit rule. Its presence does not explain the cause of each reaction.

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Reference / development / planned

A reference build supplies documented development evidence, not a generally available customer release. In development means implementation work exists; planned means intended work without an established working implementation. Read each feature’s platform label.

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Regime

A category of conditions defined by observable rules, such as trend, range or inconclusive.

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Relative Strength Index (RSI)

An indicator comparing recent upward and downward price changes on a bounded scale. Its period and calculation matter. A high or low reading alone does not tell you to buy or sell.

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Replay

A simulation that reveals historical information in sequence and records a decision before later data appears.

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Return on margin

A stated profit/loss divided by the margin used under the stated calculation. It is different from return on account capital. Leverage can make the percentage large while losses remain significant; it is not a future return.

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Reward multiple

A completed trade’s profit or loss after costs divided by its original cash risk. It shows the result in units of that starting risk.

Illustrative example: £150 profit after costs ÷ £100 original risk = 1.5R. A £50 loss on the same original risk is −0.5R.

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Risk / reward preview

A comparison between the planned loss to a chosen stop and the planned gain to a chosen target, with stated size and cost assumptions. It is not the realised result or a probability of success.

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Risk budget

The largest planned loss you allow for a decision under the assumptions in your plan. Actual losses can exceed a planned amount.

Illustrative example: Before a practice trade, record the amount the plan allows you to risk. Check the size and stop against that amount.

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Rollover

The broker’s daily funding cut-off for an open position. Crossing it can trigger a charge or credit. The number of chargeable days can differ from the number of nights you held the trade.

Illustrative example: A five-minute position crossing a three-charge-day rollover can receive three days of funding. A longer position closed before the cut-off may receive none. Check the instrument’s actual schedule.

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Runner

The portion of a position deliberately left open after partial exits. It remains exposed and needs the management instructions you select; it is not risk-free.

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Sample size

How many observations are included in a result. Also check which observations were selected and the period they cover.

Illustrative example: Winning eight of ten trades is an 80% win rate in that sample. Ten trades alone do not establish a dependable future win rate.

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Scenario assumptions

Inputs chosen for a “what if” calculation, such as a price move, cost or correlation. The result depends on those inputs. Risk Radar development uses stated scenarios, not predictions of the next market move.

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Short

A position that gains from a price fall and loses from a rise, before costs, for the stated instrument.

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Slippage

The difference between the price you expected and the price at which the trade actually happened. It can help or hurt the result.

Illustrative example: You expected a buy at 100, but it fills at 101. That one-unit difference is slippage.

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Smart chart object

A drawing with a recorded identity, role, revision and lifecycle in the separate Chart Interaction component. Object Manager integration with Sentinel is deferred; a drawing is not a broker instruction.

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Spread

The gap between the price offered to buyers and the price offered to sellers at the same time.

Illustrative example: If you buy at an ask of 101 and immediately sell at an unchanged bid of 100, you lose 1 price unit before separate fees.

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Stale

Older than the maximum age allowed by the supplied rule. Stale information must not be treated as current.

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Standard lot

A standardised quantity for a particular instrument. In the EUR/USD example, one standard lot is 100,000 euros. Other products can have different contract sizes.

Illustrative example: Ten standard EUR/USD lots represent 1,000,000 euros. Margin is only the collateral required, not the total size or maximum possible loss.

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Stop order

An order activated after a stated trigger is reached. Activation and final fill are separate events.

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Stop-limit order

A stop trigger that activates a limit order. The limit constrains the acceptable price but the order may not fill. Availability and trigger rules depend on the broker and instrument.

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Stop-loss (SL)

An exit instruction intended to limit loss at your chosen trigger level. Ordinary stops do not guarantee an exact exit price: gaps, liquidity and execution conditions can produce a worse result.

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Take-profit (TP)

An exit instruction at a chosen target level. It is separate from a stop-loss. A target is not a promise that price will reach it or that the final profit will equal the preview.

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Target

A price or result you plan to aim for. A target is an intention, not a guarantee.

Illustrative example: A 2R target aims for twice the original risk; the actual trade may finish with a different result.

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Tick

One price update. Tick size is the smallest allowed price step; tick value is its cash value for a stated volume. These are different meanings.

Illustrative example: A new quote is a tick even when the displayed price is unchanged.

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Tick size / tick value

Tick size is the smallest allowed price change. Tick value is the cash value of that change for the specified volume and currency. A price update (“tick”) is a different concept.

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Timeframe / parent candle

The time interval represented by each chart bar. M1 represents one minute; H1 one hour. A higher-timeframe or parent candle covers several smaller bars. Time and price source affect comparisons. M15 represents fifteen minutes.

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Trade

Buying or selling a financial instrument. An order is the instruction; a fill is the actual transaction; an open position is what remains held. Prices and costs can produce a loss.

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Trade Clearance / preflight

Checks your chosen plan against configured rules and available account information before an entry request. Development outcomes include allowed, caution, reduced-size or blocked with reasons. Passing checks does not predict a profitable trade.

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Trade lineage

The recorded links between a plan, its changes and later trade events. In Black Box development, notes remain separate from recorded facts; missing links must not be invented.

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Trading costs

Spread, commissions and any financing or other broker charges. Some costs are already reflected in execution prices; avoid counting them twice when reviewing net results. Check the actual instrument schedule.

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Trading session

A defined trading time window, with its timezone and daylight-saving rules. A window on a chart supplies context; it does not prove the market will move in a particular way.

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Trading signal

A suggestion or instruction about which instrument to trade, its direction or timing. Sentinel’s public panel does not choose trades or supply signals. Chart observations and product education are for understanding tools, not trade recommendations.

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Trading terminal

The desktop trading platform connected to the broker account. Sentinel’s public native-panel scope is shown separately for MT4 reference and MT5 development. Forthcoming Android needs its stated backend, computer/VPS, MT4 terminal and EA.

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Trailing drawdown

A loss boundary that moves with a defined peak or reference value under an explicit rule.

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Trailing stop

A rule that adjusts a stop as price moves favourably, using the method and distance you select. Native terminal trailing needs the platform running; Sentinel methods and dependencies vary by labelled build. An exact exit price is not guaranteed.

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Unprotected positions

In Risk Radar development, open trades with a missing/invalid stop or a stop that is not currently loss-limiting. The stop must be below the executable price for a buy and above it for a sell. A valid stop still does not guarantee an exact exit price.

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Unrealised P/L

The changing profit or loss on a trade that is still open. It has not yet been fixed by closing the trade.

Illustrative example: An open trade showing a £40 loss can still change before it closes. The loss already affects the account’s current value.

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Unvalued exposure

Risk that cannot currently be calculated reliably because required prices or broker cash valuation are unavailable. Risk Radar development labels this separately; missing information is not zero risk.

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User interface (UI)

The visible controls and information through which someone uses software. A screenshot can show an interface without demonstrating a working broker connection or every feature.

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UTC

A time standard used to anchor timestamps. A local-time conversion needs a supplied offset for that date.

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Version

A stable identifier for the exact rules, data or content used. Material changes need a new version.

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Virtual private server (VPS)

A rented remote computer that can keep software running. For Android’s described connected workflow it hosts the required backend/terminal software where configured. It does not remove connection, platform or broker dependencies.

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Volatility

How much prices fluctuate over a defined period and method. Higher volatility can enlarge gains and losses at the same position size. It does not tell you the next direction.

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Volume profile

A view grouping recorded volume by price level under a stated method. Tick activity is not the same as exchange-traded volume. The source and allocation assumptions matter; it does not reveal every hidden order.

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Walk-forward

Repeated windows in which earlier data may set rules and the next untouched window tests them before the process advances.

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Web cockpit

A browser workspace for viewing connected information and requesting supported actions. It is the interface, not the backend or execution engine. Sentinel’s web cockpit is in development and requires the connected system.

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Wick

The part of an OHLC candle outside its real body, from high to body and body to low.

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Win rate

The percentage of the trades you counted that finished with a profit. Win rate alone does not determine profitability: the size of wins, losses and costs matters too.

Illustrative example: Eight winning trades out of ten closed trades gives an 80% win rate. That number does not tell you how much money those trades made.

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Demo account

An account using simulated funds to practise and test controls. Demo behaviour and fills can differ from a live account; it does not establish future results.

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Contract specifications

The broker’s rules for an instrument, including contract size, price increments, allowed volume, costs and trading hours. Check the specifications for the exact symbol and account.

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Ticket identifier

A platform identifier for an order or position. Use it with the account and instrument to confirm which trade a control targets; the identifier is not itself a trade instruction.

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Feature scope

The particular behaviour, platform and build covered by a description. A feature shown in one reference build is not automatically available in another build or to customers.

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Broker stop distance

A broker’s minimum permitted distance for certain stop, target or pending-order levels. Restrictions can change; a displayed zero does not always mean every requested level will be accepted.

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Broker freeze distance

A broker-defined price range in which certain order changes, cancellations or closes may be restricted. The exact restriction depends on the platform, order and broker conditions.

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Using these explanations

These explanations are education and tool information, not signals or personal recommendations. Examples are illustrative, not trading results or forecasts. Order conditions, costs and margin depend on the actual instrument, broker and account.

Sentinel-specific meanings follow documented product scope. MT4 reference, MT5 development and planned labels still apply; a definition does not establish an available or fully integrated feature. Essential explanations are public; member access remains unavailable.

Educational references checked 9 October 2026. SEC order examples concern stocks and CME examples concern futures; check the terms of your actual instrument.

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