Useful Terms
🔹 Bull Market – A market where prices are rising.
🔹 Bear Market – A market where prices are falling.
📈 Support Level – A price level where an asset tends to stop falling and bounce back up.
📉 Resistance Level – A price level where an asset tends to stop rising and reverse.
🔄 Retracement – A temporary price pullback before the trend continues.
📊 Breakout – When an asset moves beyond a key resistance or support level.
🔄 Reversal – When the market changes direction from bullish to bearish (or vice versa).
🚨 FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) – The urge to buy when prices are pumping.
❄️ FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) – Negative news or rumors that cause panic selling.
👐 Paper Hands – Selling too early due to fear.
💎 Diamond Hands – Holding an asset despite price volatility.
✅ Market Order – Buying or selling immediately at the best available price.
⏳ Limit Order – Setting a specific price at which you want to buy or sell.
⚠️ Stop-Loss (SL) – A preset order to sell an asset to limit losses.
🎯 Take-Profit (TP) – A preset order to sell an asset when a profit target is reached.
📌 Risk-to-Reward Ratio (R/R) – A measure of potential profit vs. potential loss in a trade.
🔗 HODL (Hold On for Dear Life) – Long-term holding despite market fluctuations.
🌱 Staking – Locking up crypto to earn rewards over time.
🚜 Yield Farming – Providing liquidity to earn rewards.
🎭 Airdrop – Free crypto given to users for participating in a project.
💬 DYOR (Do Your Own Research)
⚠️ Pump and Dump – A scheme where prices are artificially inflated, then dumped.
🔍 Whale – A trader with a large amount of crypto that can influence prices.
🐟 Retail Trader – Small investors in the crypto market.
🕒 Scalping: Short-term trades, small profits, high frequency.
📅 Swing Trading: Holding for days/weeks to catch bigger moves.
📢 HODLing: Long-term investing, ignoring short-term noise.