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Glossary
The words used across ftw.trade, in one place.
| Word | Means |
|---|---|
| Account wallet | A wallet whose key ftw.trade holds for your account, to place in projects |
| Action | What a strategy or workflow does: a buy, a sell, an order, a bridge. Also a script other scripts call by name |
| Automation | What the API calls a TypeScript script |
| Backtest | Running a strategy over history against a paper broker |
| Bar | One interval of a market: open, high, low, close, volume |
| Close out | Unwinding everything a multi-market run holds, and bringing bridged funds home |
| Dealing | When a vault's orders fill, at that NAV |
| Deployment | One running copy of a strategy (sd_…) |
| Divergence guard | A live run stopping itself when its replay stops matching what it sent |
| earn | Routing an asset to the best rate across protocols |
| Feed | A shared price series, free to every account (feed:<name>) |
| Flowscript | ftw.trade's language for strategies and sources |
| High-water mark | The value above which a vault investor pays a performance fee |
| Husher | The service that sends funds privately, with no on-chain link |
| Invariants | A strategy's risk limits: drawdown, daily loss, trade count |
| Live | A project whose trades send real transactions |
| Main wallet | Your account's own wallet, for deposits and withdrawals |
| MCP | The Model Context Protocol, how AI apps call ftw.trade's tools |
| Metric | A value a strategy publishes each bar with metric(name, value) |
| NAV | Net asset value: what one unit of a vault is worth |
| na | Flowscript's "not known yet" |
| Paper | Trading with play money at real prices; nothing is sent on chain |
| Project | Wallets, what trades them, and their dashboards, as one document |
| Project wallet | An account wallet placed in a project, with a label and groups |
| Series | What a strategy runs on: pool:, perp:, feed:, poly: or source: |
| Signal | A source's event, as something workflows and scripts react to |
| Skill | A guide written for AI agents, served over MCP and as Markdown |
| Sniper | A workflow that runs for every new launch matching a filter |
| Source | Anything a strategy, workflow or script reads |
| Stage | A strategy run as a workflow step until it says it's done |
| Starter | A ready strategy to run or change |
| Vault | A strategy or project others invest in, with enforced rules |
| Workflow | A trigger and steps on a project's wallets |