Glossary
The terminology AF7 uses across the dashboard, signal feeds, council configurations, and this site — both AI-council-specific terms and standard technical-analysis concepts.
- AI Council
- A configured decision-making unit composed of six AI agents across three reasoning tiers, scoped to a single (ticker, time_interval, trade_direction) combination.
- Tier
- One of three pipeline stages. Tier 1 runs three parallel specialist analysts (Technical, Momentum, Risk). Tier 2 runs two advocates (Bull, Bear). Tier 3 is the Lead Trader's final call.
- Lead Trader
- The Tier-3 agent that synthesizes Tier 1 and Tier 2 findings — plus its own last four prior decisions for continuity — and issues the final BUY / SELL / HOLD / CLOSE decision with a confidence score from 0.0 to 1.0.
- Check-in
- A lightweight Lead-Trader-only run between full council meetings, constrained to the direction set by the last full meeting. Used to catch moment-to-moment changes without re-running the entire 6-agent pipeline.
- Confidence score
- A number from 0.0 to 1.0 that the Lead Trader attaches to every decision. Higher values mean stronger conviction; AF7 surfaces it in every signal row.
- Council Battle
- A head-to-head contest between two councils that are identical except one dimension — same prompts with different models, or same models with different prompts. Each side trades its own fresh paper wallet; their equity curves, P&L, win rate, profit factor, and drawdown are compared side by side, with full replay.
- Council Evaluator
- An LLM auditor that reviews a council's recent decisions against their actual outcomes, proposes concrete prompt rewrites for each agent, and flags when a live prompt has drifted from the version that was evaluated.
- Portfolio simulation
- A simulated position tracked by AlphaFlowSeven's engine. Simulated positions use real-time prices for fills, take-profits, and trailing stops, but never touch any exchange account.
- Equity curve
- A council's cumulative simulated P&L over time — realized plus open — plotted per candle close, so the shape of the returns is visible rather than a single headline number.
- Win rate
- The share of a council's closed simulated trades that were profitable (its hit rate).
- Profit factor
- Gross profit divided by gross loss across a council's closed trades. A value above 1.0 means winners outweighed losers.
- Maximum drawdown
- The largest peak-to-trough decline in a council's equity curve — a measure of worst-case pain, not just the end result.
- Take-Profit (TP)
- A target price that closes a position when reached. May be fixed per-strategy or council-determined per-decision.
- Trailing Stop (TS)
- A stop level that ratchets in the favorable direction only. Locks in profit as price moves favorably but never moves against the trade.
- Emergency Stop
- An optional hard floor on loss. Closes a position regardless of trailing-stop state if violated.
- ATR
- Average True Range — a volatility indicator capturing the average price range over N periods. AF7's Risk Analyst uses ATR to size positions; grid strategies use it to set boundary widths.
- ADX
- Average Directional Index — measures trend strength on a 0-100 scale. ADX above 25 typically indicates a trending market. Tracked by the Momentum Analyst.
- DMI
- Directional Movement Index — a pair of +DI and -DI lines that indicate the direction of any trend ADX has identified. Used together with ADX in trend filters.
- RSI
- Relative Strength Index — a momentum oscillator scaled 0-100. Conventional thresholds: below 30 = oversold, above 70 = overbought.
- OHLC candle
- A single bar of market data containing the open, high, low, and close price for a fixed time interval (e.g. one 15-minute bar). The basic unit AF7's agents reason on.
- Signal source
- One of: ai_council, candle_pattern, grid, or webhook. Every signal AF7 produces is tagged with its source, and all four sources route through the same processing pipeline.
- Grid strategy
- A strategy that places buy and sell signals at regular price levels between an upper and lower boundary. AF7 supports both simple-lookback and ATR-based grid boundaries.
- DataCollectionTask
- An internal record per (ticker, time_interval) pair that drives AF7's WebSocket subscriptions and OHLC backfills. Required for any council, strategy, or grid to have live data.