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60-second explainers.

The vocabulary behind every briefing, decoded in under a minute each. These are the same terms the desk uses on the short-form videos, written out with the number, what it means, and why it matters.

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Pulse Score

a single signed score per coin, minus hundred to plus hundred

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Whale Transfer

a single crypto move of about $8M or more

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Spot Etf Flow

the net dollars flowing in or out of US spot bitcoin/ether ETFs each trading day

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Funding Rate

the fee perp longs pay shorts (or vice versa) every few hours to hold a position

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Fear & Greed Index

a 0-100 sentiment gauge for the whole crypto market

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Open Interest

the total dollars of futures positions currently open

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Liquidation

an exchange force-closing a leveraged position

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Coinbase Premium

how much more (or less) BTC trades for on Coinbase vs the rest of the world, in basis points

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Order Book Imbalance

whether the buy side or sell side of the exchange order book is heavier

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Market Dominance

Bitcoin's share of the entire crypto market cap, as a percent

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Implied Move

the percent swing the options market is pricing in through a given date

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Max Pain

the strike price where the most options expire worthless

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Put/Call Ratio

put open interest divided by call open interest

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RSI

a 0-100 momentum gauge

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MACD

a momentum-direction indicator built from two moving averages

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EMA

an exponential moving average, a trend line that weights recent prices more

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Golden Cross

the 50-day average crossing above the 200-day average

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Bollinger Squeeze

volatility compressing until the Bollinger Bands pinch tight

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RSI Divergence

price and momentum disagreeing, new highs with weaker RSI, or new lows with stronger RSI

Learn library generated Sep 25, 2026. Not financial advice.