Glossary

agent

An AI that runs a job end to end — reads your files, calls tools, writes and edits code — rather than answering one question.

API application programming interface

A published way for one program to ask another for data or an action — prices out, orders in.

API key

The secret string that proves a request is yours. It lives in an environment file on your machine, never in code you push.

backtest

Running a strategy over past data to see what it would have done, with every assumption you made still inside the result.

challenge

A prop firm’s test: reach a profit target without breaking the daily or the overall loss limit, usually inside a time window.

CLAUDE.md

The file at the root of a project that tells Claude Code how the project works, so you stop explaining it every session.

drawdown

How far an account has fallen from its highest point. Most prop rules are written around this one number.

fill

The price your order actually got, which is the only price your account ever sees.

fork

Your own copy of somebody else’s repo, kept separate, so you can change it without touching theirs.

indicator

A calculation drawn on a chart — an average, a range box, a level — that shows you something the candles alone do not.

latency

The delay between something happening at the exchange and your code hearing about it, measured in milliseconds.

llms.txt

A plain-text file at the root of a site that tells an AI what the site holds and where to read it.

MCP Model Context Protocol

The standard an AI agent uses to reach a tool, a file or an API itself, instead of you pasting things into the chat.

orderflow

Reading the buying and selling itself — prints, size and the resting orders — rather than the shape of the candle.

paper trading

Trading a live market with money that is not real: the fills are simulated, the timing and the mistakes are not.

Pine Script

TradingView’s own language for indicators and strategies. It runs on their charts and nowhere else.

the prompt

The paste-ready prompt on a Build listing: the task for your AI agent and the facts it needs, so it can build on the tool without you reading the whole repo.

prop firm

A firm that funds traders who pass its evaluation, sets the rules they trade under, and takes a share of what they make.

rate limit

The cap a service puts on how many requests you may send in a minute before it starts refusing them.

repo repository

A project on GitHub or GitLab: the code, its history, and whatever the maker wrote down about running it.

Rising

The default order here: clicks, copies, agent hits and how new a listing is, over 72 hours.

sent to makers

The number on every row: how many people this site sent to a maker’s own page.

slippage

The gap between the price you expected and the price you got, counted in ticks or in dollars.

vibe coding

Building software by describing what you want to an AI and steering what comes back, rather than typing every line yourself.

webhook

A URL you hand a service so it posts to you the moment something happens, instead of you asking it every minute.