Reference

Glossary

Quick definitions of every FlowEntry term used in the app and the docs.

A

  • Active zone

    A zone whose daily-close breakout has triggered a trade. Lives in the Trades tab, not the Zones tab.

  • Alpha (α)

    Per-coin threshold. When a day’s raw alert count meets or exceeds the coin’s alpha, the day turns gold (Sigma) and a zone is drawn. Default is 10. Adjustable on the chart.

B

  • Band (Book Depth)

    One of three price ranges from mid: 0–2.5% (immediately around price), 2.5–5% (mid-near), 5–10% (far). Each band’s bid/ask weight renders independently.

  • Barbell book

    A Book Depth pattern: gold band 1 plus gold band 3 with band 2 neutral. Tight and far buyers committed, with nothing in between. Often associated with patient accumulation.

  • Book badge

    Small B:NN% (gold) or A:NN% (silver) text in a Scanner tile corner, present when the latest book ratio is meaningfully one-sided. The reliable readout on hot ✦ tiles where the alert glow drowns the book glow.

  • Book Depth

    Daily snapshot of the dollar weight of resting orders in three price bands around mid price. Renders as gold/silver gradient rectangles on the price pane.

  • Book glow

    Soft gold (bid-leaning) or silver (ask-leaning) outer glow on a Scanner tile when the latest book ratio is meaningfully one-sided.

  • Buy / Sell

    For each day, splits Sigma’s count into how many fired as buying vs selling. Displayed as a green-up / red-down percentage histogram.

C

  • Cash Volume

    Dollar value of Sigma events, aggregated into chart-bar buckets. Three modes: Total (cyan), Buy/Sell (green/red overlap), Net (green if positive, red if negative).

  • Coins above

    For D. Momentum and W. Momentum: raw count of coins meeting the strength criterion that day or week. The bar height in the histogram pane.

  • Colour flip

    A transition between tiers (red → gold → green for D. Momentum, dark → mid → light blue for W. Momentum). The most predictive event the momentum reads produce.

D

  • D. Momentum

    Daily share of the USDT market positioned strong. Three-tier palette: green (broad strength), gold (mixed), red (broad weakness). Market-wide, not per-symbol.

  • Dual-signal tile

    A Scanner tile carrying both a hot ✦ and a book-direction badge agreeing with the bias (✦ + B:NN% for long bias, ✦ + A:NN% for short bias). Two independent FlowEntry signals on one tile.

F

  • Fire badge (🔥×N)

    On Scanner range tiles: number of days inside the selected range where a coin’s daily count met or exceeded its alpha. Tiles with 2 or 3+ fires get a brighter halo.

G

  • Ghost wall

    A Whale Wall that disappeared between refreshes. Drawn dashed for a few cycles to flag the removal. Often signals a whale stepping out of the way before a move.

  • Gold day / hot day

    A day where the coin’s raw alert count met or exceeded its alpha. Bar turns gold; zone gets drawn.

H

  • Hot tile

    A Scanner tile where today’s raw alert count is at or above that coin’s alpha. Marked with a gold ✦.

I

  • Imbalance pill

    Inline number on the Whale Walls toggle showing total bid-wall dollars vs total ask-wall dollars. Cyan if greater than 1.0, pink if less.

  • Isolated zone

    A pinned zone shown on the chart while zone isolation is active. While at least one zone is pinned, the chart draws ONLY pinned zones — the range pill is overridden.

  • Isolation chip

    Small persistent chip below the Market Wall Bias tag showing how many zones are pinned: gold for Sigma, purple for Pulse. Click the ✕ to clear.

L

  • Lone mover

    A coin whose Sigma fires gold while Pulse is cold. The move is independent of any market-wide rotation. Could be early accumulation, news, or a one-off.

M

  • Market regime day

    A day with high market-wide breadth of unusual flow. Pulse purple highlights it.

  • Max Unrealized %

    Peak paper P&L a trade reached while open. Updated only when a new high is hit, never decreases. Shown next to the exit emoji on Trade Markers and on each Trades tab card.

  • Mixed day (Buy / Sell)

    A gold Sigma day where neither side is near 100% in the Buy/Sell split. Signals two-way unusual activity, often shows up at indecision points.

O

  • “Only” link

    Per-row action in the zone isolation picker. Clears any current pins and isolates just that one date. Same effect as right-clicking a single zone bar and choosing “Isolate this zone”.

  • Overheated regime (W. Momentum)

    A long stretch of light-blue bars during a sustained uptrend. High strength gone on long enough to be a top-side risk.

P

  • Period selector

    3M / 6M / 1Y / All dropdown next to Sigma and Pulse. Controls zone overlay only. Histogram bars always render across the full visible chart range.

  • Picker panel

    Floating panel opened by the gold target icon (Sigma) or purple target icon (Pulse) next to the threshold input. Lists every zone-qualifying day in history with date, value, and an “Only” shortcut per row. Mutually exclusive — opening one closes the other.

  • Pulse

    Daily count of how many USDT coins (stablecoins excluded) crossed their own alpha that day. Market-wide, not per-symbol. Four-tier palette: purple (Hot), cyan (High), pink (Medium), slate (Cold).

  • Pulse threshold

    User-set count above which a Pulse day is Hot (purple bar plus purple zone). Default 31. Adjustable.

  • Pulse zone

    Purple rectangle on the price pane at a Hot Pulse day’s high–low. Same set of dates on every coin’s chart, because Pulse is market-wide.

R

  • Range mode (Scanner)

    The four non-Live pill states: Yesterday, 7D, 30D, Custom. Same heatmap surface as Live, different time aggregation. Capped at 31 days.

  • Ratio (Book Depth)

    A band’s lean: positive means bid-heavy (gold), negative means ask-heavy (silver), near zero means neutral (no draw).

  • Replaced zone

    A zone superseded by a newer Sigma signal on the same coin. Silently dropped from the UI.

S

  • Scanner

    Heatmap grid of the most active USDT coins. Live mode (today’s σ) plus range modes (Yesterday / 7D / 30D / Custom).

  • Scanner glow

    Subtle gold/silver edge on Scanner tiles, derived from the latest day’s averaged ratio across the three Book Depth bands.

  • Sigma (σ)

    Daily count of unusual one-sided flow events on a coin. The headline indicator. Bar gold if the count meets the coin’s alpha, gray otherwise.

  • Sparkline

    Strip of cells on each Scanner range-mode tile, one per day. Cell states: fired (gold), lit (green, had alerts but didn’t fire), empty (dark). Shows the pattern of activity across the range.

  • Stop-and-reverse

    Bot behaviour: when a daily close stops out an open trade, the same zone immediately opens an opposite-direction trade at that close price. The zone stays ACTIVE; only the trade flips.

T

  • Trade Markers

    On-chart visualisation of every trade the bot has taken on the current coin. Entry arrows, exit emojis with max-unrealized %, and a full candle recolour for any open-trade period. Three modes: Off / All / Current.

  • Trap Warning

    Whale Walls tooltip annotation that appears when a wall is inside a Sigma gold zone but the book is biased the opposite way. The zone may fail; the wall may be a magnet for a stop hunt.

  • Triple Confluence

    Whale Walls tooltip annotation that appears when a wall is inside a Sigma gold zone and the book is biased the same way as the wall. Strongest demand-zone signal in the app.

U

  • Unusual of the unusual

    A high-σ day represents a coin firing many alerts when it is already unusual for that coin to fire any. Per-event unusual plus per-coin-day unusual.

W

  • W. Momentum

    Weekly share of the USDT market positioned strong. Three-tier blue palette: light, mid, dark. Market-wide, not per-symbol. Slower than D. Momentum on purpose.

  • Watching zone

    A zone with status WATCHING. Price has not yet broken above or below the band on a daily close. Lives in the Zones tab.

  • Whale wall

    An unusually large cluster of resting orders at a price level. Drawn live as a cyan (bid) or pink (ask) horizontal line on the price pane.

Z

  • Zone

    Gold rectangle on the price chart marking the high–low range of a hot Sigma day. Drawn at the alert day’s daily candle range, extended forward in time.

  • Zone isolation

    User-pinned subset of zone-qualifying days that overrides the range pill (3M / 6M / 1Y / All). With no pins the chart shows every zone as before; with one or more pins the chart shows ONLY those. Persists across range and threshold changes; clears when you switch coins or timeframes.