Day trading signal terms
Plain definitions for the language used across this guide. Where a term has a test behind it, the entry points to the page that develops it.
The terms, defined
Day trading signal
A published, real-time instruction to consider an intraday trade - ticker, direction, entry, target and stop - meant to be opened and closed inside the same session.
Same-session exit
Closing a position before the session ends rather than holding overnight; the Day Trade model works inside a 0 to 60 minute window.
Track record
The full history of past calls, wins and losses together, which is only informative when the losing calls are left in. See: a re-runnable track record.
Independent review
An examination of the underlying statements by a named third party that has no commercial stake in the result. See: how to verify a record.
Cryptographic timestamp
A hash of an alert written to a public ledger at publication, proving the call existed in exactly that form at that moment and was not altered afterward. See: locked before the close.
Conviction grade
An A-to-D label marking how strong a call is relative to its own model's measured return distribution; there is no E grade. See: grades that are measured.
Drawdown
The deepest peak-to-trough fall over a period - a more honest read on intraday risk than the headline return.
Mean reversion
Trading on a price that has stretched unusually far from a typical level and tends to snap back toward it; the intraday model applies that idea on a minutes-long clock.
Win rate
The share of calls that closed profitably - trustworthy only with the total signal count shown beside it. See: why a win rate needs a denominator.