Reference Library

The full dictionary.

IPO terms, chart patterns, market mechanics — everything beyond the scoring model. None of these affect your conviction score, but all of them help you understand the full picture.

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Charts & ContextTechnical Analysis

Chart patterns and technical indicators explained — what they are, how to read them, and where they fall short.

FundamentalsBalance Sheet & Metrics

The core financial metrics every investor should understand — defined in plain English and institutional terms.

ValuationMultiples & Pricing

The multiples and ratios used to decide whether a stock is cheap, fair, or dangerously overpriced.

Market MechanicsOptions & Dynamics

How markets actually move — squeezes, options, and the mechanics behind the chaos.

Short SqueezeMarket Mechanics

When a heavily shorted stock surges in price, forcing short sellers to buy shares to cover their losses — which pushes the price even higher.

Call OptionsMarket Mechanics

A contract that gives you the right — but not the obligation — to buy 100 shares at a fixed price before a set expiry date.

Put OptionsMarket Mechanics

A contract that gives you the right to sell 100 shares at a fixed price before expiry — the standard way to profit from, or hedge against, a stock falling.

IV CrushMarket Mechanics

The sudden collapse in implied volatility after a major event like earnings — destroying the value of options even when the underlying stock moves in the right direction.

AlphaMarket Mechanics

The return a stock or portfolio generates above and beyond what the overall market delivered — the measure of whether you actually outperformed.

BetaMarket Mechanics

A measure of how violently a stock moves relative to the overall market. Beta of 1 = moves with the market. Beta of 2 = twice as unhinged.

Value TrapMarket Mechanics

A stock that looks cheap on paper but keeps getting cheaper — because the business is structurally broken, not misunderstood.

0DTE OptionsMarket Mechanics

Options expiring the same day they're traded. Maximum leverage, maximum theta decay, maximum chaos — the purest form of speculative options trading.

Gamma SqueezeMarket Mechanics

When heavy call option buying forces market makers to buy the underlying stock to hedge, which pushes the price up, which forces more hedging — a mechanical feedback loop that can send a stock vertical.

Rug PullMarket Mechanics

When the founders or insiders of a crypto project or stock suddenly sell all their holdings, collapsing the price and leaving retail investors with worthless assets.

TACO TradeMarket Mechanics

Trump Always Chickens Out — a 2025 trading strategy built on the observation that Trump's tariff threats tend to get walked back, making every tariff-driven selloff a buying opportunity.

IPO Terms13 terms

Everything that happens between a company deciding to go public and retail investors buying the dip six months later.