generated: '2026-08-09'
method: searched
source: https://bykaranteli.com/glossary
fetched: '2026-08-09'
http_status: 200

name: ByKaranteli crypto derivatives glossary
description: >-
  The provider's published, per-term glossary of crypto-derivatives and
  signal-performance vocabulary. Each term has its own page; several are backed
  by live data rather than a static definition. Definitions below are the
  provider's own words, taken verbatim from each term page's meta description.
  Terms marked proprietary are ByKaranteli's own constructs and are the ones an
  integrator most needs defined, because they appear as fields in API responses.

term_count: 18
locales: [en, zh-Hans]
locale_note: 'Every term also has a Simplified Chinese twin under /zh/glossary/<term>.'

terms:
  - {term: Altcoin Season, slug: altcoin-season, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/altcoin-season', definition: 'A market phase where altcoins broadly outperform Bitcoin, visible as falling BTC dominance during a rally.'}
  - {term: Altcoin Season Index, slug: altcoin-season-index, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/altcoin-season-index', live: true, definition: 'How many of the top 50 altcoins are beating BTC over 90 days; the current altseason or Bitcoin season reading.'}
  - {term: Basis, slug: basis, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/basis', definition: 'Price gap between a futures contract and its underlying spot index.', appears_in_api: 'components.basisPct on /api/public/pressure'}
  - {term: Basis Points (bps), slug: basis-points, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/basis-points', definition: '1 basis point = 0.01%. We use bps as the canonical unit for signal net return.', appears_in_api: 'netBps, avgNetBps, sumNetBps, maxDrawdownBps across performance endpoints'}
  - {term: Bitcoin Dominance (BTC.D), slug: btc-dominance, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/btc-dominance', live: true, definition: "BTC's current share of total crypto market cap, the 24h change, what rising or falling dominance means, and the BTCDOMUSDT perp."}
  - {term: Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA), slug: dca, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/dca', definition: 'Buying a fixed USD amount of an asset on a fixed schedule regardless of price.'}
  - {term: Fear & Greed Index, slug: fear-and-greed, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/fear-and-greed', live: true, definition: 'The current 0-100 value with its classification, a 30-day history chart, and how the index is calculated.', appears_in_api: 'fearGreed on /api/public/indices; get_market_indices MCP tool'}
  - {term: Funding Rate, slug: funding-rate, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/funding-rate', live: true, definition: "What funding rates mean on perpetual futures, plus a live snapshot: BTC's current 8h rate, the market median, and today's most extreme positive and negative Binance perps.", appears_in_api: 'fundingRatePct; funding-history x402 operation'}
  - {term: Liquidation, slug: liquidation, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/liquidation', definition: 'Forced closure of a leveraged position when its margin is exhausted.'}
  - {term: Liquidation Heatmap, slug: liquidation-heatmap, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/liquidation-heatmap', definition: 'A chart estimating where leveraged futures positions would be forcibly closed, shown as price zones colored by intensity.', appears_in_api: 'liqmap-levels x402 operation; /api/liqmap/public'}
  - {term: Long/Short Ratio, slug: long-short-ratio, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/long-short-ratio', definition: 'The ratio of accounts or positions long versus short a perpetual. Extremes flag crowded trades that often resolve violently.'}
  - {term: Mark Price, slug: mark-price, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/mark-price', live: true, definition: 'What mark price means on perpetual futures and why it differs from last price, plus live Binance BTCUSDT and ETHUSDT mark price, index price and basis.'}
  - {term: Open Interest, slug: open-interest, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/open-interest', live: true, definition: "What open interest means in crypto futures, plus live data: BTCUSDT's 24h OI change and the biggest OI gainers and losers across Binance USDT-M perps.", appears_in_api: 'oi24hPct/oi4hPct/oi1hPct; oi-history x402 operation'}
  - {term: Pressure Score, slug: pressure-score, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/pressure-score', proprietary: true, definition: 'Our proprietary 0-100 composite of derivatives stress per symbol.', appears_in_api: 'score on /api/public/pressure; get_pressure_scores MCP tool'}
  - {term: Profit Factor, slug: profit-factor, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/profit-factor', definition: 'Ratio of gross winning trades to gross losing trades. Above 1 means the strategy is net positive.', appears_in_api: 'profitFactorNet / profit_factor_net'}
  - {term: Slippage, slug: slippage, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/slippage', definition: 'Difference between the intended execution price and the actual filled price.', appears_in_api: 'slippage-history x402 operation'}
  - {term: Smart Money, slug: smart-money, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/smart-money', definition: 'Binance top-trader positioning, used as a contrarian or confirmatory signal vs retail.'}
  - {term: Win Rate, slug: win-rate, url: 'https://bykaranteli.com/glossary/win-rate', definition: 'Percentage of trades that closed profitably.', appears_in_api: 'winRatePct / win_rate_pct'}

proprietary_terms_not_in_glossary:
  - {term: Retail Euphoria Index, note: 'Returned as `euphoria` by /api/public/indices and /api/public/euphoria and by get_market_indices. Composite of Fear & Greed + trending memes + BTC dominance + top-30 crowd positioning. Documented on /developers and /indices but has no glossary entry.'}
  - {term: PsiCharge, note: 'The get_psi_charge MCP tool and the /charge page. Stablecoin charge state. No glossary entry and no definition found on the developer surface — undefined vocabulary in a shipped tool name.'}
  - {term: VPIN, note: 'Volume-Synchronized Probability of Informed Trading. Central to flow-vpin and get_flow_toxicity, described as "order flow toxicity" but never defined in the glossary.'}
  - {term: Composite Score, note: 'Leaderboard ranking = PF x sqrt(trades/25) x winness, per /developers. Formula published, term not in the glossary.'}
  - {term: Regime / regimeLabel, note: 'Direction-aware regime enum on /api/public/pressure (e.g. SHORT_RAMP, "Net short bias building"). No published enumeration of the possible regimes.'}

methodology:
  url: https://bykaranteli.com/methodology
  note: 'Eligibility contract, deterministic tie-breaks and fee model — the semantic backing for every performance field.'

gap: >-
  The five most load-bearing terms in the API response bodies — Retail Euphoria,
  PsiCharge, VPIN, composite score and the regime enum — are exactly the ones
  the glossary does not cover. The glossary defines the industry-standard terms
  a reader could look up anywhere, and skips the proprietary ones only
  ByKaranteli can define.