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• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Algorithmic Trading
• Backpropagation
• Bagging (Bootstrap Aggregating)
• Boosting
• Backtesting
• Classification (Supervised)
• Clustering (Unsupervised)
• Cross-Validation
• Decision Tree
• Deep Learning
• Ensemble Methods
• Expert System
• Expert Advisor (EA)
• Feature Engineering
• Forecasting (Time-Series Forecasting)
• Genetic Algorithm (GA)
• Gradient Descent
• Hyperparameter Tuning
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Model Validation
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Neural Network (ANN)
• Overfitting
• Underfitting
• Random Forest
• Reinforcement Learning (RL)
• Regression (Supervised)
• Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)
• Sentiment Analysis
• Supervised Learning
• Transformer (Model)
• Time-Series Forecasting
• Unsupervised Learning
• Underfitting
• Validation (Model Validation)
• Walk-Forward Optimization
• Algorithmic Trading
• Alpha Model
• Arbitrage
• Backtesting
• Black-box Model
• Ensemble Methods
• Entry Logic (Entry Criteria)
• Execution Timing
• Exit Logic (Exit Criteria)
• Genetic Algorithm
• Mean Reversion
• Momentum (Trend-Following)
• Neural Network
• Optimization (Loop/Process)
• Position Sizing (Model)
• Reinforcement Learning
• Signal Generation
• White-box Model
• Average True Range (ATR)
• Breakout
• Central Bank / Monetary Policy
• Average Directional Index (ADX)
• Backtesting
• Bollinger Bands
• Consumer Price Index (CPI)
• Correlation
• Divergence
• Double Top / Double Bottom
• Drawdown (Maximum Drawdown)
• Expectancy
• Exponential Moving Average (EMA)
• Fibonacci Retracement
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Head and Shoulders
• Interest Rate
• MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence)
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Moving Average (MA)
• Money Flow Index (MFI)
• Mean Reversion
• Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP)
• Neural Network
• Oscillator
• Overfitting
• Pivot Points
• Profit Factor
• Purchasing Managers Index (Purchasing Managers’ Index)
• Quantitative Easing (QE)
• Relative Strength Index (RSI)
• Risk-Reward Ratio
• Sharpe Ratio
• Sortino Ratio
• Stochastic Oscillator
• Unemployment Rate
• Volatility
• Win Rate
• Algorithmic Trading
• API-based Bot
• Automated Restart
• Automated Trading (Algo Trading)
• cBot
• Cron Job
• Decision Tree
• Event-Driven Logic
• Entry Order
• Expert Advisor (EA)
• Forex Trading Bot (Forex Robot)
• MQL4/MQL5
• Multi-Account Syncing
• Node-RED
• Order Execution
• Position Management
• Python Trading Bot
• Task Scheduler
• Trade Copier
• Trigger
• VPS (Virtual Private Server)
• Zapier
• Alpha
• Annualized Return (CAGR)
• Backtesting
• Beta
• Black Swan Event
• Calmar Ratio
• Commission
• Curve Fitting (Overfitting)
• Drawdown (Maximum Drawdown)
• Equity Curve
• Expectancy (Expected Payoff)
• Exposure
• Forward Testing (Paper Trading)
• In-Sample Data
• Leverage
• Look-Ahead Bias
• Lot
• Modeling Quality
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Optimization
• Out-of-Sample Data
• Overfitting
• Pip
• Profit Factor
• Risk-Reward Ratio
• Risk of Ruin
• Rollover (Swap)
• Sharpe Ratio
• Slippage
• Sortino Ratio
• Spread
• Survivorship Bias
• Tick Data
• Timeframe
• Transaction Costs
• Volatility
• Walk-Forward Testing (Walk-Forward Optimization)
• Win Rate (Winning Percentage)
• Broker (Forex Broker)
• CFD (Contract for Difference)
• Commission
• B-Book
• Balance (Account Balance)
• A-Book
• Dealing Desk
• Demo Account
• Depth of Market (DOM)
• ECN (Electronic Communication Network) Broker
• Equity (Account Equity)
• FIFO Rule (First-In, First-Out)
• Free Margin
• Hedging
• Instant Execution
• Islamic Account (Swap-Free Account)
• Latency
• Leverage
• Liquidity Provider (LP)
• Lot
• Margin (Used Margin)
• Margin Call
• Margin Level
• Market Execution
• Market Maker
• NDD (No Dealing Desk)
• Negative Balance Protection (NBP)
• OTC (Over-the-Counter) Market
• Pip
• Regulation
• Requote
• Scalping
• Slippage
• Spread
• STP (Straight Through Processing) Broker
• Stop Out
• Swap (Rollover Rate)
• Swap-Free Account
• VPS (Virtual Private Server)
• Account
• Balance (Account Balance)
• cBot
• Algo (cAlgo/cTrader Automate)
• Backtesting
• Bars
• ClosePosition
• Commission (Backtest Commission)
• cAlgo IDE (cTrader Automate IDE)
• DataSeries (Parameter type)
• Drawdown
• ExecuteMarketOrder
• Equity (Account Equity)
• Error (OnError)
• GetFitness (Custom Optimization)
• History
• IntelliSense
• LastResult
• Limit Order / PlaceLimitOrder
• Log
• Max Balance Drawdown / Max Equity Drawdown
• Market Order (ExecuteMarketOrder)
• Net Profit
• OnBar
• OnBarClosed
• OnError
• OnStart
• OnStop
• OnTick
• Optimization (cBot Optimization)
• Parameter
• Pending Order
• Profit Factor
• Position
• Positions (collection)
• ProtectionType
• RobotAttribute ([Robot])
• Stop Order / PlaceStopOrder
• Strategy Builder (Visual Strategy Builder)
• Symbol
• Stop-Limit Order
• Stop Loss / Take Profit
• Strategy (cBot Strategy)
• Sharpe Ratio
• TimeFrame
• TradeType
• Trailing Stop (HasTrailingStop)
• TradeResult / TradeOperation
• Trailing Stop
• Bar Chart
• Candlestick Chart
• Dots Chart
• Fibonacci Retracement
• Heikin-Ashi Chart
• HLC Bars Chart
• Line Chart
• Point-and-Figure Chart
• Range Chart
• Renko Chart
• Resistance (Level)
• Support (Level)
• Tick Chart
• Time Frame (Chart Interval)
• Trend Line
• Boolean
• Breakpoint
• Class
• Algorithm
• Array
• Backtesting
• cBot
• Comment
• Constant
• Concurrency
• Custom Indicator (MQL)
• Data Structure
• Deadlock
• Debugger
• Debugging
• Dictionary (C#)
• Error Handling / Exception
• Event
• Expert Advisor (EA)
• Function
• Garbage Collection
• Include File (#include)
• If Statement
• Latency
• Loop
• Library (MQL)
• Memory Leak
• Multithreading
• Mutex
• Namespace
• Object
• OnTick (MQL)
• Optimization
• Parameter
• Pointer
• Print (MQL)
• Race Condition
• Recursion
• Scope
• Script (MQL)
• String
• Variable
• While Loop
• Yield (C#)
• Z-Score (Statistics)
• API (Application Programming Interface)
• Alert
• cTrader Notifications
• Discord (Webhook)
• Email Notification
• Execution Failure
• Internal Alert
• MetaTrader (MT4/MT5) Notifications
• Push Notification
• Real-time Monitoring
• Risk Warning
• Scheduled Alerts
• Slack (Incoming Webhook)
• SMS (Short Message Service)
• Telegram (Bot/API)
• Twilio
• Webhook
• Zapier
• Trade Trigger
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
• Algorithmic Trading
• ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission)
• Beneficial Owner
• Best Execution
• CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
• Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
• Client Money Segregation
• Eligible Counterparty
• ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority)
• FCA (Financial Conduct Authority)
• FSA (Japan) – Financial Services Agency
• FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
• GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
• Know Your Customer (KYC)
• KYB (Know Your Business)
• Leverage Limits
• MiFID II / MiFIR (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II and Regulation)
• MiFIR Reporting
• Margin Close-Out Rule
• NFA (National Futures Association)
• Negative Balance Protection
• Politically Exposed Person (PEP) / Sanctions Screening
• Retail Client
• Risk Disclosure / Risk Warning
• Segregated Accounts
• Suspicious Activity Report (SAR)
• Suitability Assessment
• Algorithmic Trading (Automated Trading)
• American Option
• Arbitrage
• Asian Option
• Ask Price
• Aussie (AUD)
• Average Losing Trade (ALT)
• Average Profit Trade (APT)
• Average Trade Time (ATT)
• Backtesting
• Bar Chart
• Base Currency
• Bearish
• Bid Price
• Bid/Ask Spread
• Bullish
• Butterfly Spread (Options)
• Cable
• Candlestick Chart
• Carry Trade
• Cross Currency (Cross Pair)
• Currency Pair
• Day Trading
• Demo Account
• Derivatives
• Drawdown
• ECN Broker
• Expert Advisor (EA)
• Exotic Currencies
• European Option
• FIFO
• Floating Exchange Rate
• Forward Contract
• Fundamental Analysis
• Futures Contract
• Greenback
• Hedging
• Kiwi (NZD)
• Leverage
• Limit Order
• Liquidity
• Long Position
• Loonie (CAD)
• Lot
• Margin
• Margin Call
• Market Maker
• Martingale Strategy
• MetaTrader
• Minor Currency
• Moving Average (MA)
• NDD (Non-Dealing Desk)
• OCO Order
• Open Position
• Over-the-Counter (OTC)
• Pip
• Pivot Points
• Position Trading
• Profit Factor
• Quote Currency
• Quote (price quote)
• Rollover (Swap)
• Scalping
• Short Position
• Slippage
• Spread
• Stop Entry Order
• Stop-Loss Order
• Support/Resistance
• Swing Trading
• Take-Profit Order (T/P)
• Technical Analysis
• Thin Market
• Tick
• Trailing Stop
• Volatility
• Win Rate (Win%)
• Yard
• Active Symbol Panel (ASP)
• Algorithmic Trading (Automated Trading)
• Backtesting
• cBot
• Chartshot
• cTrader (platform)
• cTrader Automate
• cTrader Copy
• cTrader ID (cTID)
• cTrader Store
• Deal
• Depth of Market (DoM)
• Drawing Tools
• Good ‘Til Cancelled (GTC)
• Good ‘Til Date (GTD)
• Hedging
• Indicator (Technical Indicator)
• Investor (Copy Trading)
• Limit Order
• Market Order
• Market Range
• Market Sentiment
• MarketWatch
• Order
• Optimization (Optimisation)
• Pending Order
• Position
• QuickTrade
• Smart Stop Out
• Stop Limit Order
• Stop Loss (SL)
• Stop Order
• Stop Out
• Strategy Provider
• Symbol
• Take Profit (TP)
• Trailing Stop
• TradeWatch
• Watchlist
• Workspace
• API (Application Programming Interface)
• Bid Price
• Ask Price (Offer Price)
• Data Accuracy
• Data Feed (Market Data Feed / Price Feed)
• Data Frequency
• Delayed Data
• Economic Calendar
• Economic Indicator (Macroeconomic Indicator)
• Historical Data
• Interest Rate (Monetary Policy Rate)
• Latency
• Market Data
• OHLC (Open–High–Low–Close)
• Price Feed
• Real-Time Data
• Slippage
• Spread (Bid–Ask Spread)
• Tick Data
• Assertion (MQL/C#)
• Array Bounds Error (Runtime Error)
• Backtesting (Strategy Tester)
• Breakpoint
• Build Modes – Debug vs Release
• Call Stack (Stack Trace)
• Compile Error
• Compile Warning
• Debug Mode
• Debugger
• Debugging
• Division by Zero
• Exception (C#/.NET)
• Expression Watch (Observed Expression)
• Fatal Error (Critical Error)
• File Logging
• GetLastError (MQL)
• Global Variables (MQL)
• History/Data Debugging
• Infinite Loop
• Index Out of Range
• Infinite Loop
• JIT (Just-In-Time Compilation – c#/.NET)
• Last Error (_LastError)
• Local Variable
• MetaEditor Debugger (MT5 only)
• MQL4 vs MQL5 Debugging
• Memory Leak (C#)
• Null Reference (C#)
• Null (MQL)
• Optimization
• Operator Overload (C#)
• Pause (Break)
• Profiling
• Print (MQL)
• Program Mode (Online vs Tester)
• Release Mode
• Resume (Continue)
• Runtime Error
• Step Into / Step Over / Step Out
• Stack Trace
• Strategy Tester (MetaTrader)
• Tick Data
• Thread (C#)
• Unit Testing
• Variable Watch (Observed Expression)
• Watch Window
• Watchpoint (Conditional Breakpoint)
• Syntax Error
• Algorithmic Trading
• API (Trading API)
• Backtesting
• cBot
• cTrader Cloud
• cTrader
• Copy Trading
• Demo Account
• Forex Trading Robot (Forex Bot)
• MetaTrader 4 (MT4)
• Expert Advisor (EA)
• Monitoring
• Virtual Private Server (VPS)
• Alpha
• Arbitrage
• Balance of Trade
• Bear Market
• Beta
• Bull Market
• Calmar Ratio
• Carry Trade
• Central Bank
• Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
• Consumer Price Index (CPI)
• Consumer Confidence Index (CCI)
• Correlation
• Deflation
• Diversification
• Drawdown
• Economic Indicator
• Maximum Drawdown (MDD)
• Exchange Rate
• Expectancy
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Fiscal Policy
• Hedging
• Emerging Markets (EM)
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Inflation
• Interest Rate
• Interest Rate Differential (IRD)
• Leading Indicator
• Lagging Indicator
• Liquidity
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP)
• Profit Factor
• Purchasing Managers Index (PMI):
• Quantitative Easing (QE)
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• R-Squared (R²)
• Sharpe Ratio
• Sortino Ratio
• Standard Deviation
• Transaction Cost
• Unemployment Rate
• Value at Risk (VaR)
• Volatility
• Walk-Forward Analysis
• Yield
• Yield Curve
• Bandwidth
• Cloud Hosting
• Colocation
• Data Center
• Dedicated Server
• Failover
• High Availability (HA)
• Hypervisor
• Latency
• Managed Hosting
• MetaTrader 4 (MT4) Hosting
• MetaTrader 5 (MT5) Hosting
• Redundancy
• Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
• Scalability
• Server Uptime
• Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Shared Hosting
• SSD (Solid State Drive)
• Unmanaged Hosting
• Virtual Private Server (VPS)
• Virtualization
• After-Action Review (AAR)
• Behavioral Bias Note
• Categorization (Trade Categorization)
• Confidence Score
• Drawdown
• Diary (Trade Diary)
• Efficiency Ratio (Plan Adherence Rate)
• Equity Curve
• Expectancy
• Feedback Loop
• Filter Criteria
• Gap Annotation
• Habit Tracker
• Intraday Notes
• Journal Consistency
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
• Loss Annotation
• Mistake Tag
• Mean Trade Duration
• Narrative Field (Trade Narrative)
• Overtrading Indicator
• Performance Cluster
• Psychology Note
• Qualitative Review
• R-Multiple
• Review Window
• Setup Tag
• Stop Deviation Note
• Trade Log
• Tagging System
• Unrealized P&L Review
• Variance Note
• Win Rate
• Weekly Review Summary
• Algorithmic Trading Journal
• Equity Curve Analysis
• Expectancy (Trading Metric)
• Forex Trading Journal
• Mistake Tracking
• Profit Factor
• Psychology Notes
• R-Multiple
• Trade Tagging
• Sharpe Ratio
• Trading Journal (Trade Journal)
• Win Rate
• ADX (Average Directional Index)
• ATR (Average True Range)
• Alligator
• Awesome Oscillator (AO)
• Accumulation/Distribution Line (A/D)
• Bollinger Bands
• CCI (Commodity Channel Index)
• Heikin-Ashi
• Ichimoku Kinko Hyo (Ichimoku Cloud)
• Keltner Channels
• MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence)
• Moving Average (MA)
• MFI (Money Flow Index)
• OBV (On-Balance Volume)
• Parabolic SAR
• Pivot Points
• RSI (Relative Strength Index)
• Stochastic Oscillator
• Support/Resistance (S/R) Levels
• Williams %R
• ZigZag
• API (Application Programming Interface)
• SDK (Software Development Kit)
• Plugin (Add-on)
• DLL Import
• Webhook
• OAuth 2.0
• REST API (Representational State Transfer)
• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
• WebSocket
• FIX Protocol (Financial Information eXchange)
• MQL4/MQL5 (MetaQuotes Language)
• Expert Advisor (EA)
• cTrader Automate (cAlgo) / cBot
• cTrader Open API
• NinjaScript (NinjaTrader)
• Pine Script (TradingView)
• Broker API / Bridge
• Market Data API
• Trade Copier / Copy Trading
• Google Sheets API
• Dropbox API
• Cloud Services (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Telegram Bot API
• Slack Incoming Webhook
• Email (SMTP/IMAP)
• Entry Logic
• Confirmation Filter
• Signal Generation
• Risk Management (Logic)
• Position Sizing Logic
• Exit Logic
• Stop-Loss Logic
• Take-Profit Logic
• Trailing Stop Logic
• Break-Even Logic
• Conditional Statements (Conditions)
• Flags (Flag Variables)
• Loops (Iteration Constructs)
• Boolean Logic
• State (State Machine)
• Supervised learning
• Regression
• Classification
• Loss function
• Unsupervised learning
• Clustering
• Dimensionality reduction
• Policy
• Reinforcement learning (RL)
• Reward function
• Precision
• Exploration vs. Exploitation
• Recall
• Confusion matrix
• Cross-validation
• Decision tree
• Random forest
• Neural network
• Support vector machine (SVM)
• Normalization (Feature Scaling)
• Lag features
• Feature selection
• Gradient descent
• Overfitting
• Underfitting
• Regularization
• Price prediction
• Signal classification
• Anomaly detection
• TensorFlow
• cTrader Python SDK
• MetaTrader 5 Python Integration
• scikit-learn
• Absolute Drawdown
• Average Consecutive Losses
• Average Consecutive Wins
• Average Loss Trade
• Average Profit Trade
• Average Trade
• Annual Return (CAGR)
• Arithmetic Mean of Returns (AHPR)
• Asset Growth (Geometric Mean, GHPR)
• Balance
• Balance Drawdown Absolute
• Balance Drawdown Maximal
• Balance Drawdown Relative
• Calmar Ratio
• Commission
• Equity Drawdown Absolute
• Drawdown Duration
• Correlation (Linear Regression)
• Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
• Drawdown
• Equity
• Equity Drawdown Maximal
• Equity Drawdown Relative
• Equity Curve
• Expected Payoff (Expectancy)
• Fitness (Score)
• Gross Profit
• Gross Loss
• Sharpe Ratio
• Sortino Ratio
• Standard Deviation (Volatility)
• Largest Winning Trade
• Largest Losing Trade
• Loss Rate
• Loss Trades (% of total)
• Max Drawdown (Balance/Equity)
• Max Consecutive Losses
• Max Consecutive Wins
• Max Consecutive Profit (count)
• Max Consecutive Loss (count)
• Margin Level
• Net Profit
• Number of Trades (Total Trades)
• OnTester Result
• Profit Factor
• Profit Trades (% of total)
• Profit per Trade
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Recovery Factor
• Profit Trades vs Loss Trades
• R-squared (LR Correlation)
• Risk of Ruin
• Skewness
• Standard Deviation (STD)
• Trailing (Equity) Drawdown
• System Quality Number (SQN)
• Trade Expectancy
• Win Rate (Profitability)
• Ulcer Index
• Worst Trade
• Volatility
• Z-Score (Serial Correlation Test)
• Zero Drawdown (Break-even Drawdown)
• Account
• Algo (cAlgo/cTrader Automate)
• Backtesting
• Base Currency
• Bear Market
• Bid
• Broker
• Bull Market
• Candlestick
• Chart
• Commission
• cBot
• Cross Currency Pair
• Drawdown
• Currency Pair
• Equity
• Exchange (foreign exchange)
• Forex (FX)
• Leverage
• Limit Order
• Lot
• Liquidity
• Margin
• Margin Call
• Market Order
• Micro-/Mini-/Standard Lot
• Pip
• Position
• Profit & Loss (P/L)
• Spread
• Stop Order
• Stop Loss (SL)
• Short
• Symbol (Instrument)
• Take Profit (TP)
• Tick
• Trailing Stop
• Trend
• Ask
• AutoTrading
• Bar
• Balance
• Backtesting (Strategy Tester)
• Account
• Bid
• Buy
• BuyLimit
• BuyStop
• Broker
• Chart (Window)
• Candlestick
• Commission
• Custom Indicator
• Currency Instrument (Symbol)
• Data Window
• Depth of Market (DOM)
• DLL Import
• Expert Advisor (EA)
• Equity
• Exchange (Netting)
• Free Margin
• Floating Profit/Loss
• Global Variables (of the Terminal)
• Grid
• Hedging
• High/Low
• Historical Data
• Indicator
• Initialization
• Instrument (Symbol)
• Journal
• Leverage
• Limit Order
• Lot (Volume)
• Local Time vs Server Time
• Market Order
• Market Depth (DOM)
• Market (of applications)
• Market Watch
• MetaEditor
• MetaTrader 4 (MT4)
• MetaTrader 5 (MT5)
• MQL4
• MQL5
• Margin
• Moving Average (MA)
• Multi-threading / MQL5 Cloud Network
• Navigator
• Netting (Exchange mode)
• News
• OnTick, OnInit, OnDeinit
• One-Click Trading
• Order
• OrderSend()
• Point
• Pending Order
• Position
• Profile (Chart)
• Profit / P/L
• Pip
• Quote / Two-Way Quote
• Risk/Reward
• Script
• Sell
• SellLimit
• SellStop
• Spread
• Standard Indicator
• Stop Loss (S/L)
• Strategy Tester
• Swap (Rollover)
• Stop Loss (S/L)
• Take Profit (T/P)
• Technical Indicator
• Template
• Terminal
• Tick
• Timeframe
• Trailing Stop
• Trade
• Trade Request/Trade Operation
• Trading Signals (Copy Trading)
• Trade Tab
• User-Defined Function / Script
• Volume
• Web Trading (WebTerminal)
• Workspace / Profile
• Zero Bar
• Agent
• All Symbols (Multi-Symbol Mode)
• Autoselect Best Pass
• Backtesting
• Brute-Force (Grid) Search
• Backtesting Pass (Optimization Pass)
• Optimization Criterion
• Custom (User-Defined) Criterion
• Crossover (Genetic Algorithm)
• Complex Criterion (MT5)
• Drawdown
• Distributed/Parallel Optimization
• Equity Curve (Chart)
• Expert Advisor (EA)
• Exhaustive Search
• Elite Percentage (GA)
• Expected Payoff (MT5)
• Fitness Score
• Forward Testing
• Forward Optimization (Walk-Forward Analysis)
• Genetic Algorithm (GA)
• Grid Search (Brute-Force) Algorithm
• Generation (GA)
• Genetic Algorithm Parameters
• In-Sample Data
• Input Parameter
• Load/Save Parameter Sets
• Linear Chart (1D)
• MetaTrader (MT4/MT5)
• MQL5 Cloud Network
• Migration / Migrants Percentage
• Mutation (GA)
• Multi-Threading / Parallel Testing
• Optimization
• Optimization Mode / Type
• Optimization Cache
• Overfitting (Over-Optimization)
• Parameter (Input Variable)
• Parameter Range and Step
• Population Size
• Profit Factor
• Risk of Over-Optimization
• Robustness
• Remote Agent
• Selection (GA)
• Single vs Multi-Currency
• Stop-Out
• Parameter Step (Step)
• Strategy Tester
• Testing Modes (MT5)
• Timeframe
• Trade Statistics
• Visual Testing
• Visualization of Results
• Variance Testing (Randomness Testing)
• Walk-Forward Optimization (WFO)
• Winner Selection (Elite)
• WFA / Walk-Forward Analysis
• Anchoring bias
• Availability bias (Recency bias)
• Confirmation bias
• Discipline (Trading discipline)
• Disposition effect
• Fear
• FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
• Greed
• Gamblers’ fallacy
• Herd behavior
• Hindsight bias
• Illusion of control
• Loss aversion
• Mental accounting
• Negativity bias
• Overconfidence
• Overfitting
• Overtrading
• Regret aversion (avoidance)
• Revenge trading
• Risk tolerance
• Sunk cost fallacy
• Backtesting
• Forward Testing (Paper Trading)
• Historical Data
• Tick Data
• Bar Data
• Optimization
• Genetic Algorithm
• Walk-Forward Analysis
• Sharpe Ratio
• Drawdown
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Risk of Ruin
• Strategy Tester
• Out-of-Sample Data
• In-Sample Data
• Training Set
• Feature Engineering
• Overfitting
• Curve Fitting
• Sample Bias
• Data Snooping
• cTrader Automate
• MetaTrader Strategy Tester
• Going long
• Stop hunting
• Whipsaw
• Pump and dump
• Spaghetti code
• Overfitted
• Bot farm
• Degen
• Moon (or “to the moon”)
• Rekt
• FOMO
• Trend following
• Scalping
• Breakout
• Swing trading
• Statistical arbitrage
• Mean reversion
• Market making
• Discretionary trading
• Systematic trading
• Entry logic
• Exit logic
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Risk management rules
• MetaTrader Expert Advisor (EA)
• cTrader cBot
• Python trading frameworks
• Directional vs Non-directional
• Momentum strategy
• Market Order
• Limit Order
• Stop Order
• Slippage
• Execution Price
• Order Fill (Fill)
• Partial Fill
• Requote
• Fill or Kill (FOK)
• Immediate or Cancel (IOC)
• Good Till Canceled (GTC)
• Good Till Time/Date (GTT/GTD)
• Time in Force (TIF)
• Order Book
• Liquidity Provider
• Trade Confirmation
• Order Execution Speed
• Trade Volume
• Spread
• Price Slippage
• Latency
• Tick Size
• Execution Policy
• Smart Order Routing (SOR)
• Position Sizing
• Version
• Release
• Patch
• Update
• Build Number
• Semantic Versioning
• Git
• Repository
• Tag
• Changelog
• Commit
• Branch
• Backward Compatibility
• cTrader API Version
• Hotfix
• Legacy Code
• MetaTrader Build
• Deprecation

Use this forex robots glossary as your on-hand dictionary for all things related to forex robots and trading automation, and align your knowledge with industry standards, to make informed decisions as you explore or implement automation in your trading journey.