Glossary

Terms are listed alphabetically. Where a term maps to something you can click in the app, the definition points you at the real page or control.

0DTE

An option that expires on the same day you trade it (zero days to expiration). These move fast and can go to zero by the close, so they carry the most timing risk. In the strategy editor, 0DTE is one of the expiry presets.

AI tab

A section of the strategy editor that lets the bot manage a position for you instead of acting only on the raw signal. It covers AI selling, Trim selling, Smart contract match, Automatic quantity, Process images in signals, the auto stop and target rows, and Memory.

Keyword filters are not here — those live on the Filters tab. Everything on the AI tab is optional.

Automatic quantity

An AI-tab option that uses the trade size the trader wrote in the signal, overriding your strategy’s default size when the signal carries one.

Broker

A financial institution that connects you to the markets. TradeLabs signs in to your brokers and places every trade through them. See Brokers.

Broker health state

The app shows each broker in one of four states: Active (verified in the last minute or so), Idle (logged in and healthy, just not recently re-checked), Warming (a browser-based broker is booting and signing in), or Offline (actually broken). See Idle and Warming below.

Cloud Dashboard

The web interface at dashboard.tradelabs.org that acts as a remote control for the Companion App. From any browser you can create, edit, start, and stop strategies and view trade history and performance. The dashboard does not place trades itself, the Companion App does.

Companion App

The Windows desktop application that is the engine of TradeLabs. It signs in to your brokers, watches your signal sources, and places every trade. It can also create and run strategies on its own. It must be running for your strategies to trade.

Copy Trading

The subscription that lets you automatically copy trade calls from sources like Discord, Telegram, and TradingView.

DSPAC

A mobile broker known for free-share promos. It supports RSA strategies as a fan-out target. DSPAC is one account per person. See DSPAC.

Fan-out

The mechanic behind an RSA strategy: one signal routes the same trade out to many small brokers at once, so you hold the position in as many accounts as possible before the corporate action.

HWID (Hardware ID)

A unique identifier tied to your computer, used for license activation. If you move to a new machine, open the dashboard Profile page, click Reset hardware binding, and confirm with Reset HWID, so your license can activate on the new device.

Idle

A broker health state meaning the account is logged in and its session is valid, it just hasn’t been re-checked in the last minute or so. This is the normal, healthy state overnight or between trades. Idle does not mean the broker is offline.

Memecoin

A cryptocurrency that started as an internet meme or novelty. These are highly volatile and speculative. TradeLabs routes memecoin trades on Solana, and memecoin routing requires a slippage tolerance.

Moneyness

Where an option’s strike sits relative to the current price. In the strategy editor you can target In the money (already has intrinsic value), At the money (strike near the price), or Out of the money (no intrinsic value yet, cheaper and riskier).

Option Spread

A position built from more than one option contract on the same underlying, using different strikes or expirations to shape the risk.

RSA (Reverse Split Arbitrage)

A strategy that profits from the price inefficiency created when a stock does a reverse split. RSA is not about restricted stock units. TradeLabs runs RSA by fanning one trade out across many brokers so you hold the split in as many accounts as possible. Available on the RSA+ subscription.

RSA+

The subscription that includes everything in Copy Trading plus the automated Reverse Split Arbitrage strategies.

Server-side feed

A signal source where the trade calls come from TradeLabs’ own feed rather than an external source like Discord or TradingView. On the RSA+ tier it is the feed that drives RSA strategies.

It is the one source you never connect: there is no card for it on the Signals page, and the feed opens on its own as soon as a strategy using it is running.

Signal

A trade call from one of your sources (a Discord message, a Telegram post, a TradingView alert, or the server-side feed) that the Companion App reads and acts on.

Signal Source

A place TradeLabs watches for trade calls. The sources are Discord, TradingView, Telegram, and the Server-side feed. The first three are the cards on the Signals page, where you sign each one in; the server-side feed needs no setup.

Slippage

The gap between the price you expected and the price you actually got. For memecoin routing you set a slippage tolerance in the strategy editor, the maximum acceptable price drift on the swap. Wider tolerance fills more often but at worse prices.

Strategy

A set of rules that define when and how to enter and exit trades based on the signals it receives.

Take Profit

A price target that auto-closes the position once it gains that much, to lock in profit. Accepts a dollar amount above entry (for example $1.00) or a percentage (for example 40%).

Trailing Stop

A stop that follows price up, locking in gains while letting winners run. With a 5% trailing stop, if price rises 10% the stop moves to 5% below the new high.

Trim selling

An AI-tab option that reduces a position gradually as profit rises, instead of one all-at-once exit. Trim size is either a fixed share of the position (5%, 25%, 50%) or From alert, which sells the amount the caller actually posted.

Warming

A broker health state shown while a browser-based broker (such as Chase, Fidelity, SoFi, or WellsTrade) is starting up and signing in. It is a normal, temporary state, not an error. Once the broker finishes booting it moves to Active or Idle.