Plain-English explanations of every term VEXARIUM shows: market data, options, greeks, strategies, indicators and portfolio management. Start anywhere, or search.
The price, size and mood of the market you are looking at.
The short code a stock, ETF or index trades under, such as AAPL for Apple.
Why it matters:It is how you find a security everywhere in VEXARIUM: the topbar search, the watchlist and the analysis page all key off the ticker.
Related: Market cap, P/E ratio
In VEXARIUM: The topbar search field and every page URL use it, for example /s/AAPL.
The highest price a buyer is currently willing to pay for a security.
Why it matters:If you want to sell immediately, you get the bid, not the last price. A wide gap between bid and ask tells you the security is hard to trade.
Related: Ask, Bid-ask spread, Mid price, Last price
In VEXARIUM: Shown in the options chain as the BID column on the call side and the rightmost column on the put side.
The lowest price a seller is currently willing to accept for a security.
Why it matters:If you want to buy immediately, you pay the ask. The ask is the realistic entry price for a quick fill.
Related: Bid, Bid-ask spread, Last price
In VEXARIUM: Shown in the options chain as the ASK column; the matrix and payoff explorer price scenarios from mid prices and model values.
The gap between the bid and the ask, in dollars and as a percentage.
Why it matters:The spread is a hidden cost: buy at the ask, and the market immediately values your position at the bid. Wide spreads on options mean the quote is indicative and fills are uncertain.
Related: Bid, Ask, Delayed data, Option chain
In VEXARIUM: The chain shows the spread implicitly through the paired bid and ask columns; the deltas of both are part of every option snapshot.
The average of the bid and the ask, used as a fair estimate of where a trade would actually happen.
Why it matters:When volume is thin or quotes are delayed, the mid price is a more honest number than the last trade.
Related: Bid, Ask, Last price, Theoretical value
In VEXARIUM: Used as the reference price when VEXARIUM estimates option value and P/L scenarios.
The price of the most recent completed trade in a security.
Why it matters:It is real money changing hands, but it can be stale in a thin market. Combine it with bid and ask to judge whether the quote is still meaningful.
Related: Bid, Ask, Mid price, Volume
In VEXARIUM: Shown as the LAST column in the options chain and as the live price on the analysis page.
Quotes that lag the real market by roughly 15 minutes instead of streaming live.
Why it matters:Free data feeds are delayed, so the price you see may already be wrong by the time you act. Treat displayed numbers as indicative, especially for options.
Related: Last price, Bid-ask spread, Volume
In VEXARIUM: The chain carries a delayed badge, and a footnote explains quotes are indicative.
The total dollar value of a company: share price multiplied by all shares outstanding.
Why it matters:It sizes a company: mega-cap and large-cap are established giants, small-cap means more risk and more potential. Big caps tend to swing less.
Related: Shares outstanding, P/E ratio, P/S ratio
In VEXARIUM: A card in the company profile, plus a key statistic on the analysis page.
Price divided by yearly earnings per share: what you pay for each dollar of annual profit.
Why it matters:A high P/E means the market expects strong future growth and already prices it in; a low P/E can mean cheap or can mean the market doubts the earnings.
Related: Forward P/E, P/S ratio, Earnings and EPS, Market cap
In VEXARIUM: Company profile valuation card and the key statistics widget, with a plain-English band explanation on hover.
The P/E ratio using expected future earnings instead of the last reported year.
Why it matters:It shows whether the current price already accounts for expected growth. A forward P/E far below the trailing P/E signals fast expected earnings growth.
Related: P/E ratio, Earnings and EPS
In VEXARIUM: Company profile valuation card, explained with the same banded tooltips.
Price divided by yearly sales (revenue) per share.
Why it matters:Useful for young companies that are not profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless. A rich P/S means investors are paying for future growth.
Related: P/E ratio, Market cap
In VEXARIUM: Company profile valuation card.
The yearly cash dividend paid per share, as a percentage of the share price.
Why it matters:It is income you collect just for holding. A high yield may fund the payout with risk, and a 0% yield simply means the company pays none.
Related: P/E ratio, Earnings and EPS
In VEXARIUM: Company profile and key statistics, always shown as a percentage.
The highest and lowest price the security traded at during the last year.
Why it matters:It frames where the price sits in its recent history. Near the high can mean momentum or an expensive entry; near the low can mean a bargain or a falling knife.
Related: Moneyness, YTD change, Take profit, Stop loss
In VEXARIUM: Company profile position bar, vitals and key statistics; a near-high or near-low readout flags a pattern.
How many shares traded in a given period.
Why it matters:Volume confirms moves: a rally on rising volume has buying behind it, a rally on shrinking volume is easy to reverse.
Related: Open interest, OBV (on-balance volume), MFI (money flow index)
In VEXARIUM: The data feed does not provide option volume, so the chain explains that the column is omitted.
The number of option contracts that are currently open, meaning not yet closed or expired.
Why it matters:High open interest means a liquid contract with tight spreads; low open interest means you may struggle to get out at a fair price.
Related: Volume, Option chain, Bid-ask spread
In VEXARIUM: The free data feed does not provide it; the chain footnote states it is omitted.
A 0-100 gauge of market mood built by CNN from several market indicators, where low is fear and high is greed.
Why it matters:Extreme fear often marks selling that is close to exhausted, and extreme greed often marks crowded optimism. It is a mood read, not a timing signal.
Related: News sentiment, Overbought and oversold, Verdict scale: strong buy to strong sell
In VEXARIUM: A dedicated widget with a gauge, a 1-week and 1-month change and a 3-month trend line.
How positive or negative recent headlines about a company or the broad market are, scored automatically per article.
Why it matters:News moves prices in the short term, and sentiment aggregates it into one number. A negative score with falling price confirms weakness; conflicting signals mean noise.
Related: Fear and greed index, Verdict scale: strong buy to strong sell, Volume
In VEXARIUM: Each news article carries a sentiment score chip; a summary line shows the aggregate and article count.
The total number of shares of a company that exist.
Why it matters:Price times shares outstanding equals the market cap, so it is the bridge between the per-share price and the whole-company value.
Related: Market cap, Earnings and EPS
In VEXARIUM: Company profile and key statistics.
Earnings are the company profit for a period; EPS is that profit divided by shares outstanding, the per-share figure markets trade on.
Why it matters:EPS is the E in P/E. When actual EPS beats the analyst estimate, the stock often jumps; a miss often drops it.
Related: P/E ratio, Forward P/E
In VEXARIUM: The earnings widget compares estimate and actual EPS per quarter and colors beats and misses, including the surprise percentage.
How much the price has moved since the start of the year, as a percentage.
Why it matters:It is the quickest measure of how a stock is doing this year versus the broad market.
Related: 52-week high and low, News sentiment
In VEXARIUM: A key statistic on the analysis page, colored green or red.
Buying or selling of the company stock by its own executives and large holders, reported as filings.
Why it matters:Insiders know the business from the inside. Sustained insider buying can be a quiet signal of confidence, though insiders sell for many unrelated reasons.
Related: News sentiment, Verdict scale: strong buy to strong sell
In VEXARIUM: The insider widget lists recent filings with buy or sell direction and share counts.
Companies in the same industry that compete with or resemble the one you are looking at.
Why it matters:Comparing a stock to its peers shows whether an apparent strength or weakness is company-specific or just the whole sector moving.
Related: P/E ratio, Market cap
In VEXARIUM: The peer widget offers one-click comparison, and peers appear in the compare selector over the price chart.
What a contract is, how it is quoted, and the vocabulary of the chain.
A contract that gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to trade 100 shares of a stock at a fixed price until a fixed date.
Why it matters:Options let you bet on direction, hedge a position, or sell risk to others with a known maximum loss. The price you pay or receive is the premium.
Related: Call, Put, Premium, Contract (options), Strike price, Expiration date
In VEXARIUM: Options analysis lives under /options/[symbol], with the chain, payoff explorer and matrix widgets.
An option that gives the buyer the right to buy 100 shares at the strike price.
Why it matters:A call profits when the stock rises. It is the way to bet up cheaply, but it loses all value if the stock stays below the strike through expiry.
Related: Put, Strike price, In the money (ITM), Premium, Delta
In VEXARIUM: The left half of every chain group, and the basis of long call, covered call and bull call spread strategies.
An option that gives the buyer the right to sell 100 shares at the strike price.
Why it matters:A put profits when the stock falls and also works as insurance for shares you own. It is the way to bet down without shorting the stock.
Related: Call, Strike price, In the money (ITM), Premium, Delta
In VEXARIUM: The right half of every chain group, and the basis of long put, short put and bear put spread strategies.
The fixed price per share at which the option holder can buy or sell the stock.
Why it matters:Together with the current price it decides moneyness, and together with the premium it decides the breakeven. It is the reference point of every option.
Related: In the money (ITM), Moneyness, Breakeven (options), Option chain
In VEXARIUM: The center column of the chain, colored by distance from the current price, with the percentage move shown below.
The last day the option holder can exercise; after it, the contract ceases to exist.
Why it matters:Time is the option buyer enemy: the closer expiry gets, the faster the premium decays. Expiry also sets which payoff scenarios are possible.
Related: Days to expiry (DTE), Time decay, Theta, Option chain
In VEXARIUM: Every chain group is headed by its expiry, and the payoff explorer date slider runs from today to expiry.
The number of calendar days remaining until the option expires.
Why it matters:DTE drives time decay, probability estimates and greeks. Same-day contracts are so volatile that VEXARIUM skips them entirely.
Related: Expiration date, Time decay, Theta, Probability of profit
In VEXARIUM: Shown in the chain header and the payoff explorer DTE readout.
The price paid for an option, quoted per share, so one contract costs 100 times the displayed premium.
Why it matters:It is the maximum loss of an option buyer and the income of an option seller, and it is where intrinsic value and extrinsic value come together.
Related: Intrinsic value, Extrinsic value, Contract (options), Black-Scholes model, Max loss
In VEXARIUM: Shown on the selected contract strip, and the P/L% matrix mode expresses results as a percentage of the premium paid.
The value the option would have if exercised right now: for a call, price minus strike when positive, and zero otherwise.
Why it matters:It is the floor an option can never trade below for long. Deep in the money, the option behaves almost like the stock itself.
Related: Extrinsic value, In the money (ITM), Premium, Delta
In VEXARIUM: The chain rows are priced around intrinsic value, and at 0 DTE the model prices options at exactly their intrinsic value.
The part of the premium above intrinsic value: what you pay for time and for the chance of a big move.
Why it matters:Extrinsic value is what decays away as expiry approaches. It is why an out of the money option still costs something and why sellers exist.
Related: Intrinsic value, Time decay, Implied volatility (IV), Theta
In VEXARIUM: The concept behind the payoff explorer estimates: drag the date slider and watch value erode.
An option with intrinsic value: a call above the strike, a put below it.
Why it matters:ITM options are more expensive, move more like the stock and have a higher probability of ending profitable. The chain filter narrows to them.
Related: At the money (ATM), Out of the money (OTM), Moneyness, Intrinsic value, Probability of ending ITM
In VEXARIUM: The chain ITM filter and the color coding of strike distance both refer to moneyness.
An option whose strike is roughly equal to the current stock price.
Why it matters:ATM options have the most time value, the highest gamma and the most uncertain outcome. That makes them expensive in both directions.
Related: In the money (ITM), Out of the money (OTM), Gamma, Extrinsic value
In VEXARIUM: The P/L matrix highlights the ATM strike row and the graph view plots its payoff across dates.
An option with no intrinsic value: a call below the strike, a put above it.
Why it matters:OTM options are cheap because they are pure bets on a move, and they lose all value if the move does not happen. High probability of loss, high leverage.
Related: In the money (ITM), At the money (ATM), Moneyness, Probability of profit, Extrinsic value
In VEXARIUM: The chain OTM filter; the strike distance percentage shown under each strike tells you how far out it is.
Where the strike sits relative to the current price: in, at or out of the money, including how far in or out as a percentage.
Why it matters:Moneyness decides the character of an option: its delta, its probability, its time value and how it reacts to moves.
Related: In the money (ITM), At the money (ATM), Out of the money (OTM), Delta, Probability of ending ITM
In VEXARIUM: The chain shows moneyness as the signed distance percentage under each strike, colored per side.
The stock price at expiry where the option trade ends at zero profit and zero loss.
Why it matters:For a call it is strike plus premium, for a put strike minus premium, and for a spread it is the level where the legs balance. It is the first number to check before entering.
Related: Strike price, Premium, Max profit, Max loss
In VEXARIUM: Shown on the probability widget, the strategy cards and the payoff explorer, where the breakeven marker sits on the chart.
The process of an option seller being obligated to fulfill the contract when the buyer exercises.
Why it matters:Sellers must be ready for it: a cash-secured put can turn into 100 shares of stock at the strike, and a covered call can have the shares called away.
Related: Exercise, Cash-secured put, Covered call, Short put
In VEXARIUM: Assignment risk is the core reason the strategy cards for shorts mention keeping cash or shares ready.
The action of using the option right: buying (call) or selling (put) the 100 shares at the strike.
Why it matters:Most options are closed by selling the contract back rather than exercising, but exercise is what links options to actual share ownership.
Related: Assignment, In the money (ITM), Contract (options)
In VEXARIUM: Relevant when a short put or a covered call position matures toward expiry.
The standard trading unit: one option contract represents 100 shares of the underlying.
Why it matters:Every displayed premium multiplies by 100 to become real dollars, and every P/L number on the matrix assumes this standard size.
Related: Premium, Option, Option chain
In VEXARIUM: The matrix and strategy numbers are all quoted in contract terms.
The full table of every call and put available for a stock, grouped by expiration and ordered by strike.
Why it matters:It is the marketplace view of options: side by side you see calls and puts at every strike with bid, ask, last, model value and implied volatility.
Related: Call, Put, Strike price, Expiration date, Implied volatility (IV), OCC symbol
In VEXARIUM: The chain widget is the starting point of the options page; clicking a row selects the contract everywhere else.
The standardized identifier of an option contract, encoding ticker, expiration, call or put, and strike.
Why it matters:It is the contract passport: the same symbol works across brokers and data feeds, so it is the safest way to refer to a specific option.
Related: Option chain, Expiration date, Strike price
In VEXARIUM: Shown in small text on the selected contract strip in the payoff explorer.
Where option prices come from, how the models estimate them, and how to read the risk numbers.
The annualized volatility of the stock that the current option price implies, expressed as a percentage.
Why it matters:IV is the market forecast of how much the stock will move: high IV means expensive options and a market expecting big swings. It is the single most informative option number.
Related: Historical volatility, Black-Scholes model, Vega, Extrinsic value, Probability of profit
In VEXARIUM: The IV column in the chain and the sigma tile in the greeks widget.
How much the stock actually moved in the past, measured from its price history and annualized.
Why it matters:Comparing it with IV tells you whether options are cheap or expensive relative to reality: IV above historical volatility means fear is being priced in.
Related: Implied volatility (IV), ATR (average true range), Bollinger bands
In VEXARIUM: The ATR indicator is VEXARIUM daily volatility measure, and the greeks widget contrasts expected vs actual movement.
A mathematical formula that estimates a fair option price from current price, strike, time to expiry, interest rate and implied volatility.
Why it matters:It is the industry standard for pricing and the engine behind VEXARIUM model values, but it assumes constant volatility and frictionless markets. Treat its outputs as estimates, not guarantees.
Related: Implied volatility (IV), Theoretical value, Probability of profit, Vega, Time decay
In VEXARIUM: Powers the THEO chain column, the payoff explorer, the P/L matrix and the probability widget; every one carries an estimate disclaimer.
The option price produced by the Black-Scholes model, as opposed to the traded bid or ask.
Why it matters:It is the fair-value yardstick: when the market quote sits far above model value, someone is paying extra for supply or fear.
Related: Black-Scholes model, Mid price, Implied volatility (IV)
In VEXARIUM: The THEO column in the chain and the option value readout in the payoff explorer.
The model estimate of the chance that the trade makes money by expiry, derived from the current IV.
Why it matters:It turns a price into odds. Remember the estimate only models the price distribution; it does not guarantee outcomes, and high probability trades pay less.
Related: Probability of ending ITM, Expected value, Implied volatility (IV), Black-Scholes model
In VEXARIUM: The probability widget bar, colored green above 50% and orange below.
The model estimate of the chance that the option has intrinsic value at expiry.
Why it matters:It is the raw directional probability, before premium costs. Profitability needs this, plus enough premium for the stock to pass the breakeven, which is why it is always higher than probability of profit.
Related: Probability of profit, In the money (ITM), Moneyness, Breakeven (options)
In VEXARIUM: The second bar in the probability widget, shown in the accent color.
The probability-weighted average P/L of the trade, meaning the average result if you ran it many times.
Why it matters:A positive expected value is the mathematical definition of an edge, but it hides variance: a pleasant average can come from many small wins and rare large losses.
Related: Probability of profit, Max profit, Max loss, Risk/reward
In VEXARIUM: The expected value readout on the probability widget, green when positive and red when negative.
A graph of the trade P/L against the stock price, normally drawn at expiry.
Why it matters:One glance shows the shape of the risk: where it profits, where it loses, where the breakeven sits and what the extremes look like. Every strategy has its own signature curve.
Related: P/L matrix, Breakeven (options), Max profit, Max loss, Long call
In VEXARIUM: The payoff explorer chart with a draggable price slider, and the mini chart on every strategy card.
A grid of projected P/L across a range of strikes (rows) and expiration dates (columns).
Why it matters:It answers the timing question the payoff curve cannot: what is this trade worth if the stock moves X% by date Y? Modes show the result in dollars, as a percentage of premium, as option value, or as percent of the max loss realized.
Related: Payoff curve, Expected value, Time decay, Probability of profit
In VEXARIUM: The P/L matrix widget with the range and dates sliders and the P/L $, P/L %, VALUE and RISK modes, plus a graph view of the at-the-money row.
The steady loss of extrinsic value as the expiration date approaches.
Why it matters:It is the tax every option buyer pays and every seller collects. Decay accelerates in the last weeks, which is why short-dated options are the favorite of sellers and the danger of buyers.
Related: Theta, Extrinsic value, Days to expiry (DTE), Short put, Covered call
In VEXARIUM: The payoff explorer date slider demonstrates it live: drag the date forward and the estimated value shrinks.
The five sensitivity numbers that describe how an option reacts to the world.
How much the option price moves, in dollars, for a one-dollar move in the stock; calls run from 0 to 1 and puts from 0 to -1.
Why it matters:Delta is the directional exposure: a delta of 0.6 call behaves like owning 60 shares. It also approximates the probability of ending ITM, which is why the two numbers look alike.
Related: Gamma, Moneyness, Probability of ending ITM, Call, Put
In VEXARIUM: First tile of the greeks widget, shown to four decimals.
How fast delta itself changes as the stock moves.
Why it matters:High gamma means the option reacts more violently: near the money and near expiry, positions swing between feeling like shares and feeling like nothing. It is the source of both opportunity and whiplash.
Related: Delta, At the money (ATM), Days to expiry (DTE)
In VEXARIUM: Second tile of the greeks widget.
How much value the option loses per day as time passes, in dollars.
Why it matters:Theta always works against option buyers and for sellers. It is the concrete number behind time decay, and it grows as expiry approaches.
Related: Time decay, Days to expiry (DTE), Extrinsic value, Short put
In VEXARIUM: Third tile of the greeks widget; the payoff explorer also shows decay by date.
How much the option price changes when implied volatility moves by one percentage point.
Why it matters:High vega means the position is a bet on volatility direction as much as on price. Long-dated options carry the most vega, which is why IV changes hurt or help them most.
Related: Implied volatility (IV), Historical volatility, Time decay
In VEXARIUM: Fourth tile of the greeks widget, alongside the sigma (IV) tile.
How much the option price changes when interest rates move by one percentage point.
Why it matters:It is usually small enough to ignore for short-dated options, but it grows for long-dated ones because the strike money is tied up longer.
Related: Vega, Days to expiry (DTE), Black-Scholes model
In VEXARIUM: Fifth tile of the greeks widget.
The trade blueprints VEXARIUM suggests, each with its own risk shape.
Buying a call option, the classic bet that the stock rises above the breakeven before expiry.
Why it matters:Maximum loss is the premium paid, maximum profit is theoretically unlimited, which makes it the highest leverage way to play a stock you believe in.
Related: Call, Breakeven (options), Max loss, Delta, Time decay
In VEXARIUM: The first strategy card when the engine sees a bullish picture.
Buying a put option, a bet that the stock falls, or insurance against a drop in shares you hold.
Why it matters:It profits from falls with limited cost, but theta eats it every day, so it wants a timely move, not a slow grind down.
Related: Put, Breakeven (options), Max loss, Theta, Diversification
In VEXARIUM: The listed strategy for a bearish picture.
Selling a put to collect premium, profiting if the stock stays above the breakeven.
Why it matters:It is the income side of the options market: you take the risk of owning the stock at a cheaper price in exchange for premium now. Losses can be large if the stock collapses.
Related: Cash-secured put, Assignment, Theta, Max loss, Premium
In VEXARIUM: Suggested when the picture is neutral-to-bullish; the card shows capped reward and the full assignment risk.
Selling a put while setting aside enough cash to buy the 100 shares if assigned.
Why it matters:It turns the short put risk into a plan: worst case you own a stock you liked anyway at the strike minus the premium collected. It is the beginner standard for selling puts.
Related: Short put, Assignment, Premium, Max loss, Position
In VEXARIUM: The strategy card explains that assigned puts become stock at strike minus premium.
Owning 100 shares and selling a call against them, collecting premium while giving up upside above the strike.
Why it matters:It harvests income and a little downside cushion from a stock you already hold, in exchange for capping the gain you would get from a rally.
Related: Call, Assignment, Theta, Take profit, Position
In VEXARIUM: Suggested when you own shares and the engine sees a flat-to-bullish outlook.
Buying a lower-strike call and selling a higher-strike call of the same expiry.
Why it matters:It keeps most of the long call upside but pays for it by selling the far tail, which cuts the cost and caps the loss at the net premium.
Related: Debit and credit spreads, Defined risk, Max profit, Max loss, Long call
In VEXARIUM: The strategy the engine switches to when volatility is high, to keep the bullish bet defined-risk.
Buying a higher-strike put and selling a lower-strike put of the same expiry.
Why it matters:The bearish mirror of the bull call spread: cheaper than a plain long put, with both profit and loss capped.
Related: Debit and credit spreads, Defined risk, Max profit, Max loss, Long put
In VEXARIUM: Suggested for bearish ideas when defined risk matters.
A spread costs a debit when you pay net premium to enter, and brings a credit when you receive net premium.
Why it matters:The direction of money matters: debit spreads need the stock to move past the breakeven; credit spreads just need it to stay on the right side. Credit trades feel easier but take on tail risk.
Related: Bull call spread, Bear put spread, Short put, Premium, Max loss
In VEXARIUM: Every strategy card shows whether the trade is a debit or credit through its return on risk and max profit and loss lines.
A trade whose maximum possible loss is known exactly at entry.
Why it matters:Defined risk means you can size the trade so the worst case is survivable, which is the difference between a setback and an account-ending event.
Related: Max loss, Bull call spread, Bear put spread, Spreads (multi-leg)
In VEXARIUM: The engine prefers defined-risk spreads when volatility is high.
The best possible result of a trade, usually achieved at or beyond a specific price at expiry.
Why it matters:Knowing the ceiling sets expectations: direction is only part of the outcome, and for spreads the ceiling arrives only if the stock finishes on the right side of the short leg.
Related: Max loss, Return on risk, Payoff curve, Breakeven (options)
In VEXARIUM: A field on every strategy card.
The worst possible result of a trade, known for buyers and spread traders, open-ended for naked shorts.
Why it matters:Max loss is the number that decides position size. If the worst case keeps you in the game, the trade is a candidate; if it hurts, it is too big.
Related: Max profit, Defined risk, Risk/reward, Stop loss
In VEXARIUM: A field on every strategy card, and the reference point for the matrix RISK mode.
Max profit divided by max loss, the reward per dollar at risk.
Why it matters:It is the single best strategy comparison number: a trade risking 1 to make 2 is twice as capital-efficient as one risking 1 to make 1, regardless of direction.
Related: Max profit, Max loss, Risk/reward, Defined risk
In VEXARIUM: Shown as a percentage on every strategy card, colored orange for attractive and red for weak.
A strategy built from two or more options on the same stock, usually one bought and one sold.
Why it matters:Adding a sold leg trades away some upside or insurance in exchange for a cheaper cost, a smaller loss, or income. The two legs together define the risk shape.
Related: Debit and credit spreads, Defined risk, Bull call spread, Bear put spread
In VEXARIUM: The engine mixes single-leg and spread ideas on the strategy widget.
Every automated check on the analysis page, what it measures and how to read its verdict.
Measures how fast the price has moved up or down over 14 days, on a 0-100 scale.
Why it matters:Above 70 the stock is overbought and due for a rest, below 30 oversold and due for a bounce. It is the fastest single glance at momentum and exhaustion.
Related: Overbought and oversold, Stochastic oscillator, MFI (money flow index), Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: A core indicator, shown with reading and reason; crossing 30 or 70 also generates a pattern flag.
Moving averages of the closing price: the 50-day (short trend) and the 200-day (long trend) line.
Why it matters:Price above both means the trend is up, below both means down. When the 50-day crosses the 200-day you get the classic golden cross (bullish) or death cross (bearish).
Related: MACD, ADX, PSAR (parabolic SAR), Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: One combined check showing price versus both averages, plus golden and death cross pattern flags.
The gap between a fast and a slow moving average, showing whether short-term momentum beats long-term momentum.
Why it matters:A positive and widening gap means bulls control the momentum; a flip of the histogram is one of the earliest warning signs of a trend change.
Related: SMA and EMA, RSI (relative strength index), Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: Rendered as MACD, signal and histogram values, with a histogram sign-flip pattern flag.
A band two standard deviations around the 20-day average, marking unusually cheap and unusually expensive price levels.
Why it matters:Price riding the lower band is stretched down and often bounces; the upper band marks stretched-up prices. The %B reading places the price inside the band.
Related: ATR (average true range), Overbought and oversold, Historical volatility, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: Shows price, %B and the band range, with richer entries flagged near the lower band.
Where the latest price sits inside the high-low range of the last 14 days, on a 0-100 scale.
Why it matters:Above 80 the price is near the top of its recent range (overbought), below 20 near the bottom (oversold). It works best in sideways markets.
Related: RSI (relative strength index), Williams %R, Overbought and oversold, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: A core oscillator check with its own verdict.
How much the price typically moves per day, in dollars and as a percentage of the price.
Why it matters:It is the volatility ruler: below 2% of price is calm, above 5% is wild. ATR also tells you how far a stop loss must sit to survive normal noise.
Related: Historical volatility, Stop loss, Bollinger bands, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: A key statistic on the analysis page and a full indicator check with a percentage-of-price reading.
Measures how strong a trend is, regardless of direction.
Why it matters:Above 25 there is a real trend to follow; below 20 the market chops sideways and directional signals mislead. ADX tells you whether to trust the other indicators at all.
Related: SMA and EMA, MACD, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: An indicator check; the verdict text warns when trendless conditions make signals unreliable.
Adds up volume on up-days and subtracts it on down-days, tracking whether money is flowing with the price.
Why it matters:Rising OBV confirms a rally is backed by real buying; a rally with falling OBV is on borrowed time. It is volume, translated into a trend line.
Related: Volume, MFI (money flow index), Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: Shown as a rising, falling or flat trend with the raw value.
The average price everyone paid for the stock today, weighted by how much traded at each price.
Why it matters:Price above VWAP means today buyers are, on average, in profit; below means they are underwater. Institutions use it as the fair intraday reference.
Related: Volume, Last price, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: An indicator check comparing the close to VWAP with the percentage gap.
A Japanese all-in-one trend system where a shaded cloud acts as dynamic support and resistance.
Why it matters:Above the cloud is an uptrend with the cloud as floor, below is a downtrend with it as ceiling, and inside is indecision. One glance gives trend, support and momentum.
Related: SMA and EMA, ADX, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: Shown as price versus the cloud top and bottom.
How far the price has moved from its 20-day average, adjusted for how wild the swings are.
Why it matters:Above +100 the price is stretched unusually high, below -100 unusually low, which makes it a cyclical overbought and oversold gauge with few false signals in ranges.
Related: Overbought and oversold, Bollinger bands, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: An extended indicator check with signed readings.
The same close-versus-range idea as Stochastic, but upside-down, running between -100 and 0.
Why it matters:Above -20 is overbought and below -80 is oversold. It reads like Stochastic with the polarity flipped.
Related: Stochastic oscillator, Overbought and oversold, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: One of the extended indicator checks.
Like RSI, but weighted by volume, measuring whether money is flowing into or out of the stock over 14 days.
Why it matters:Above 80 means heavy buying that may be exhausting itself, below 20 heavy selling that may be done. Divergence between MFI and price is a classic warning.
Related: RSI (relative strength index), OBV (on-balance volume), Volume, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: An extended indicator check that combines price and volume flow.
The percentage the price moved over the last 12 days.
Why it matters:Big positive numbers mean fast, strong advances; big negative numbers mean sharp declines. It is momentum without the smoothing.
Related: RSI (relative strength index), MACD, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: Shown as a signed percentage with thresholds at plus and minus 5%.
Dots that trail the price and flip sides when the trend changes.
Why it matters:Dots below the price mean uptrend, above mean downtrend, and a flip is a clean exit or entry cue. It is the indicator for knowing when to stay in and when to get out.
Related: SMA and EMA, Stop loss, ADX, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: Shown with a trend arrow and the dot level, plus flip pattern flags.
A momentum gauge between -100 and +100 measuring whether buyers or sellers were stronger over 14 days.
Why it matters:Beyond +50 buying has been extreme and may reverse; below -50 selling has been extreme and may bounce. It is RSI in a different scale.
Related: RSI (relative strength index), Overbought and oversold, Check status: pass, watch, fail
In VEXARIUM: An extended momentum check.
The five-step opinion each indicator and the overall page assigns: strong buy, buy, hold, sell, strong sell.
Why it matters:Individual verdicts are votes, not commands: the page scores them (strong opinions count double) and the overall verdict is the tally. Hold means no edge, not a recommendation to do nothing.
Related: Check status: pass, watch, fail, Stance, News sentiment
In VEXARIUM: Every indicator chip is colored by its verdict, and the symbol strip plus the verdict summary show the overall result; verdicts also drive the strategy engine direction.
A condition where the price has run so far and so fast that the move is statistically stretched relative to recent history.
Why it matters:Stretched moves tend to snap back, but in strong trends a stock can stay overbought for weeks. Treat these labels as caution flags, not reversal signals.
Related: RSI (relative strength index), Stochastic oscillator, Bollinger bands, MFI (money flow index), Verdict scale: strong buy to strong sell
In VEXARIUM: The RSI, Stochastic, Williams %R, CCI, MFI and CMO checks all use these labels directly.
The traffic-light summary of an indicator verdict: buy and strong buy count as pass, sell and strong sell as fail, everything else as watch, and uncomputable as none.
Why it matters:PASS and FAIL collapse five verdicts into a fast green or red scan, so the page can show how many checks support the overall call at a glance.
Related: Verdict scale: strong buy to strong sell, Overall verdict and score, News sentiment
In VEXARIUM: The status icon chips on every indicator card; double-clicking a chip excludes it from the tally and the overall verdict re-scores live.
The aggregated conclusion: the page adds up indicator scores (strong buy 2, buy 1, hold 0, sell -1, strong sell -2) into one verdict with a count of bullish, neutral and bearish checks.
Why it matters:It is the bottom line the whole analysis page is designed to produce, and it is shown per timeframe (day, week, month) so you can see whether the picture agrees across horizons.
Related: Verdict scale: strong buy to strong sell, Check status: pass, watch, fail, Stance, Fear and greed index
In VEXARIUM: The symbol strip badge, the summary box and the three timeframe cards all show it.
Managing what you actually own: positions, exits and the discipline around them.
A holding in your portfolio, from a handful of shares to an options contract, tracked by entry price and quantity.
Why it matters:A position is where every analysis becomes real money. Recording entry price and quantity is what lets the app judge whether a trade is working.
Related: Stance, Stop loss, Take profit, Entry price and quantity
In VEXARIUM: The save trade modal records symbol, type, entry price and quantity into the portfolio page.
What you paid per share and how many shares (or contracts) you bought.
Why it matters:Entry price is the baseline for every P/L calculation, and quantity is what turns a percentage move into dollars of exposure.
Related: Position, Break-even (portfolio), Max loss
In VEXARIUM: Fields in the save trade modal; the portfolio page uses them to compute total invested and P/L.
The automated verdict on an open position: take profit, hold, or cut loss, based on the live price versus your entry.
Why it matters:It removes emotion from the hardest decision in trading: what to do with a position right now. A green take profit says the idea worked; a red cut loss says the idea is broken.
Related: Take profit, Stop loss, Trailing stop loss (TSL), Verdict scale: strong buy to strong sell
In VEXARIUM: The portfolio page evaluates every saved trade and shows a colored stance badge with a plain-English reason.
A pre-decided exit price at which you sell to cap a loss, so a small mistake cannot become a big one.
Why it matters:A stop decided before entering is discipline; a stop invented while the trade is down is usually panic. Set it at a level the stock noise will not trigger by accident, which is where ATR helps.
Related: Trailing stop loss (TSL), Max loss, ATR (average true range), Stance
In VEXARIUM: The stance engine flags positions whose live price has moved against the entry far enough to warrant cutting.
A stop loss that automatically moves up as the price rises, locking in gains while letting a winner keep running.
Why it matters:It solves the winner problem: you never give back a whole rally, and you never sell just because a stock paused. The stop only ever moves in the profit direction.
Related: Stop loss, Take profit, PSAR (parabolic SAR), Position
In VEXARIUM: Referenced in the stance reasoning as the way to protect a position that has moved in your favor.
A pre-decided price or gain at which you sell a winner, converting paper profit into realized profit.
Why it matters:Without a take profit, a winning trade is just a losing trade waiting to happen; with one, you bank the outcome the analysis said was likely.
Related: Stance, Trailing stop loss (TSL), Max profit, Risk/reward
In VEXARIUM: One of the three stance labels, shown in green when a saved position has gained enough to bank.
The price at which a position is worth exactly what you paid for it, including the entry price adjusted for costs.
Why it matters:It is the psychological anchor of a trade: above it you are managing a winner, below it a loser. Knowing it precisely keeps decisions rational.
Related: Entry price and quantity, Position, Take profit, Stop loss
In VEXARIUM: The stance reasoning implicitly compares the live price to your recorded entry price.
How much you stand to lose compared to how much you stand to gain on a trade.
Why it matters:Trades with favorable risk/reward can lose half the time and still make money over many attempts. It is the bridge between a single trade and a profitable process.
Related: Return on risk, Max loss, Max profit, Expected value
In VEXARIUM: On the strategy cards it appears as return on risk; on the portfolio side it is what stop loss and take profit levels together define.
Spreading your money across different stocks, sectors and asset types so no single failure breaks the portfolio.
Why it matters:Concentration multiplies conviction and ruin alike. A portfolio of uncorrelated positions survives the inevitable wrong call, which is the only kind anyone makes sometimes.
Related: Position, Peers, Risk/reward, News sentiment
In VEXARIUM: The peer comparison and watchlist tools exist to help you see beyond a single symbol.
You start with direction. The analysis page runs every indicator in this glossary against the price history and tallies the verdicts into one overall call, from strong buy to strong sell. The traffic-light checks (pass, watch, fail) show which side the evidence is on, the fear and greed index frames the market mood, and news sentiment tells you whether headlines agree with the charts. If the evidence is mixed, that in itself is the answer: no edge, smaller size or no trade.
Once you have a direction, the option chain is where you pick the instrument. For every expiration you see calls and puts at every strike, with bid, ask, last price, model value and implied volatility. Moneyness and the distance percentage tell you how far each contract is from the current price, and IV tells you how much the market expects the stock to move. Cheap-looking options are usually cheap because they are far out of the money or about to decay.
Before committing, you read the risk numbers. The greeks describe the position: delta for direction, gamma for how violently it reacts, theta for the cost of waiting, vega for exposure to volatility. The payoff curve draws the shape of the trade, the P/L matrix projects it across strikes and dates, and the probability widget converts it into odds, expected value and breakeven. A strategy that fits the picture shows its max profit, max loss and return on risk on the cards, so you can compare ideas by reward per dollar at risk rather than by hope.
Finally, you manage what you own. Every trade you save gets a stance: take profit when the thesis worked, cut loss when it broke, hold while it is still playing out. Stop losses and take profits convert the analysis into rules that survive emotion, and a trailing stop lets a winner run without giving back the gains. Across the whole portfolio, diversification keeps one wrong call from being the only story. The glossary ends where the trading begins: understanding first, size second, discipline always.