Trading glossary
Plain-English definitions of the terms used across Trade The Post and market-mover trading.
- Confidence score
- A 0–10 rating of how strongly our AI believes a signal will play out, based on how clear and material the post is.
- Expected move
- The size of the price change our AI expects from a market-moving event, shown as a percentage and a direction.
- Inverse ETF
- A fund designed to move opposite to an index or asset, letting you profit from a decline with capped downside and no borrow or short-squeeze risk (e.g. PSQ vs QQQ).
- LONG
- A position that profits when a security rises in price — you buy expecting it to go up.
- Market-moving
- A post or event judged likely to change the price of one or more securities. Non-market-moving posts are logged but not alerted.
- Options flow
- The pattern of options buying and selling, sometimes used to infer where large traders expect a stock to go.
- Periodic Transaction Report (PTR)
- The public filing a member of Congress must submit for covered trades over roughly $1,000, generally within 30–45 days of the transaction.
- SHORT (short-selling)
- A position that profits when a security falls — you borrow and sell shares now, then buy them back cheaper later.
- STOCK Act
- The 2012 U.S. law that bars members of Congress from trading on non-public information and requires public disclosure of their securities transactions.
- Ticker
- The short symbol that identifies a listed security on an exchange (e.g. AAPL for Apple, BHP.AX for BHP on the ASX).