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    24hr Volume Amount of transaction volume performed in the last 24 hours
    24hr High Highest recorded last traded price in the last 24 hours
    24hr Low Lowest recorded last traded price in the last 24 hours

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    Active Orders Limit orders that are inside a trader's 'Active' tab pending for execution. This also represents orders that are pending for execution inside the order book. 
    Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) ADL is a mechanism used to cover for contract losses sustained on the platform when the insurance fund is unable to fully cover for such losses. 
    ADL Ranking This is a banding system used to indicate the risk of being chosen for ADL. It is derived in the order of highest profit and effective leverage use and each LED lighted up represent 20% increment in ADL ranking 
    Ask Price The prices that traders are willing to accept to sell a given quantity of contracts for a particular coin on the platform
    Auto Margin Replenishment (AMR) A mechanism that enables the system to automatically replenish margin from their available balance into an existing open position when Mark Price is close to its liquidation price.
    APIAn acronym for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications (e.g. Bybit to trading bots and vice versa) to talk to each other. 
    Available Balance The amount of margin available inside a trader's asset balance to perform trading activities or asset withdrawals
    Average Entry Price (AEP)The consolidated entry price derived from the averaging of multiple entry prices based on multiple entry orders 

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    Bankruptcy Price This is the price level indicating the total loss (0%) of the position's initial margin.  
    Base Currency It is one part of a perpetual contract's price mechanism (Quote and Base) and mainly quoted in cryptocurrencies and used to calculate margin, fees, and profits/losses. 
    Bid Price The prices that traders are willing to accept to buy a given quantity of contracts for a particular coin on the platform
    BTCUSD Bybit's Bitcoin inverse perpetual contracts 
    BTCUSDT Bybit's USDT (USD Tether) perpetual contracts
    Buy Long Opening a position expecting to make a profit with a rise in price movement of the underlying asset

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    Conditional Orders Advanced orders that can be submitted and automatically executed when the selected reference price (Last, Mark, Index) reaches the trigger price
    Closed on Trigger An additional option to conditional orders, this function seeks to execute as a closing order that guarantees its execution regardless of margin requirements.  
    Closed P&L Net profit and loss of a trader's position after fees
    Contract Value The value of the position with respect to its order's execution price 
    Close by Limit A type of limit order that comes with close on trigger to close your position 
    Close by Market A type of market order that comes with close on trigger to close your position 
    Cross Margin It is a type of margin mode that utilizes a trader's account's available balance margin into the open position

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    Dual-Price MechanismDual price mechanism consists of mark price & last traded price. It is mainly used to protect traders from market manipulations
    Daily Realized P&LDaily realized P&L accounts for all profit and losses, trading and funding fees paid/collected for the time period between 0000 UTC and 0000 UTC of the following day
    Decaying Funding Basis RateIt is defined as the funding rate multiplied by time until funding divide by funding interval. The decaying funding basis rate serves to slowly close the gap between mark price and index price.

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    ETHUSD Bybit's Ethereum inverse perpetual contracts
    EOSUSD Bybit's EOS inverse perpetual contracts
    Entry Price Shown inside a trader's closed P&L, this is the average entry price for your open position
    Exit Price Shown inside a trader's closed P&L, this is the average exit price for your closed position

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    Fee to OpenTrading fees set aside by the system to afford the estimated trading fee to open the position
    Fee to CloseTrading fees set aside by the system to afford the estimated trading fee to close the position
    FundingFunding is the primary mechanism to ensure Bybit’s last traded price is always anchored to the global spot price
    Funding RateFunding rate is used to calculate the funding fee that is exchanged directly between buyers and sellers every 8 hours at 0000, 0800 and 1600 UTC
    FillOrKill (FOK) It is a kind of time-in-force (TIF) strategy to allow traders to vary their order execution according to their trading strategies. FOK orders must immediately be executed at the order price or better, otherwise, it will be completely canceled. Partial filling of an order will not be accepted. 

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    GoodTillCancelled (GTC)It is a kind of time-in-force (TIF) strategy to allow traders to vary their order execution according to their trading strategies. GTC orders will remain valid until it is fully executed or manually canceled by the trader. 

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    HedgingHedging is a type of strategy used by traders to reduce and control their exposure to risks by hedging a Buy Long and Sell Short position of the same quantity under cross margin mode. Currently, this is only available on USDT perpetual. 

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    Impact Bid PriceThe average fill price to execute the Impact Margin Notional on the Bid side. This is used to calculate the Premium Index, which in turn is used to calculate the Funding Rate. 
    Impact Ask PriceThe average fill price to execute the Impact Margin Notional on the Ask side. This is used to calculate the Premium Index, which in turn is used to calculate the Funding Rate. 
    Impact Margin NotionalImpact Margin Notional is the notion available to trade with 0.1 BTC/1 ETH worth of margin (i.e. 0.1 BTC or 1 ETH / Initial Margin) and is used to determine how deep in the order book to measure either the Impact Bid or Ask Price.
    Index PriceIndex price is derived from the sum of the prices from various spot exchanges multiplied by their respective weightage 
    Interest Quote IndexThe Interest Rate for borrowing the quote currency. It is currently fixed at a daily 24 hour rate of 0.06%. This is used to calculate the Interest Rate, which in turn is used to calculate the Funding Rate. 
    Interest Base IndexThe Interest Rate for borrowing the base currency.  It is currently fixed at a daily 24 hour rate of 0.03%. This is used to calculate the Interest Rate, which in turn is used to calculate the Funding Rate. 
    Initial Margin Initial Margin is the amount of margin collateral required to open a position for leverage trading.
    Insurance Fund The Insurance Fund is a pool of funds used to absorb contract losses and decrease the possibility of auto-deleveraging (ADL) occurring on the platform. 
    Inverse Contract The Inverse contracts use BTC/ETH/EOS/XRP as the base currency. Traders need to confirm traded quantity in terms of USD (Quoted currency), and then use their base currency (such as BTC, ETH) to calculate margin, profit and loss.
    Isolated Margin  It is a type of margin mode that isolates the margin placed into an open position from the trader's account balance.  
    ImmediateOrCancel (IOC) It is a kind of time-in-force (TIF) strategy to allow traders to vary their order execution according to their trading strategies. IOC orders attempt to fill immediately at the order limit price or better. If the order cannot be filled immediately, the unfilled contracts will be automatically canceled. 

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    Limit Order Limit order is an order type that allows traders to place orders at an order price better than current best bid/ask prices inside the order book. 
    Liquidation Liquidation refers to the event when the position's margin is unable to maintain above the maintenance margin requirements, causing the complete loss of the entire margin collateral. On Bybit, liquidation is triggered when mark price reaches the liquidation price of the position. 
    Last Traded Price (LTP) This is the platform's current market price 

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    Maintenance Margin Maintenance Margin is the minimum margin required to continue holding a position.
    Market Depth Market depth refers to the order book's ability to sustain relatively large market orders without impacting its execution price. 
    Market Order A market order is an order type that is executed immediately at the current best available market prices inside the order book. 
    Maker OrderMaker order is a type of order execution that adds liquidity to an order book before being executed. After it has been successfully executed, such orders will pay a lower fee of 0.02% of the contract value on the platform. 
    Mark Price Mark price refers to a global spot price index plus a decaying funding basis rate
    Mark Price to Liq. Price(Distance) This highlights the price gap between the order's estimated liquidation price and current mark price. It allows traders to check the price gap, assess the risk of immediate liquidation before confirming the order placement

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     Notional Value The floating contract value of the position based on mark price on the platform

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    Order Book It is an electronic list of buy and sell orders for Bybit's perpetual contracts organized and sorted by price level. 
    Order Cost Order cost consists of the initial margin of the position + fee to open + fee to close. 
    Order Price Order price is the price that traders can manually input when setting up limit orders
    Open Interest Open interest is the total number of perpetual contract positions currently being held on the platform.  
    Order History Order history records all the orders that have been successfully placed by the trader on the platform
    Order Margin Order margin consists of the sum of all margins for active orders that are pending for execution
    Order# Order ID that is uniquely assigned to each individual order successfully placed on the platform 

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    Post-Only An additional option to limit or conditional limit orders, this function serves to ensure that the order will be executed as a maker order.
    Predicted Rate The predicted funding rate for the subsequent funding timestamp (within 16 hours). It is not fixed and is updated dynamically every minute according to Interest Rate and Premium Index
    Premium index Premium index is a floating variable used to raise or lower the next funding rate to be level consistent with where the contract is trading
    P&L Profit and loss. Inside the Bybit calculator, this highlights a position's P&L relative to the position's contract value
    P&L% Profit and loss percentage. Inside the Bybit calculator, this highlights a position's P&L relative to the position's contract value in terms of percentage
    Position Margin Position's initial margin + fee to close

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    Quote CurrencyIt is one part of a perpetual contract's price mechanism (Quote and Base) and mainly quoted in USD to determine the orders' and position's number of contracts quantity
    Quantity The unit of measurement for the order size and position size on Bybit.

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    Reduce-Only An additional option to limit orders, this function serves to ensure that the order will be executed as a position closing order to reduce a position size 
    Risk Limit Risk limit is a risk management measure to limit the risk exposure of traders.
    ROIReturn of Investment percentage. Inside the Bybit calculator, this highlights a position's P&L relative to the position margin in terms of percentage.  

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    Stop Loss (SL) A stop-loss order is an order placed to limit a trader's losses on an existing open position. SL orders can be easily placed via the TPSL function. 
    Sell ShortOpening a position expecting to make a profit with a fall in price movement of the underlying asset

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    Take Profit (TP) A take-profit order is an order placed to close a trader's position at a profit. TP orders can be easily placed via the TPSL function. 
    Taker OrderTaker order is a type of order execution that 'takes' and consumes liquidity out from the order book when it is executed. Such orders will pay a taker fee of 0.055% of the contract value on the platform. 
    Tiered Margin Tiered margin means that the larger the position/order quantity, the higher the required initial/maintenance margin rate. This forms the Risk Limit mechanism on the platform. 
    Time In Force 'Time in Force' is a set of order execution strategies to allow advanced traders to vary the order's effective execution method to suit their trading needs. 
    Trailing Stop Trailing stop is an order function that will allow a stop order to dynamically follow the last traded price based on a pre-set distance to lock in an open position's profit or stop loss.
    Target Price The target price is the estimated exit price to close your position based on a pre-determined ROI % shown inside the calculator. 
    Total Realized P&L Total realized P&L accounts for all profit and losses, trading, and funding fees paid/collected since the first successfully placed trade. 
    Trigger Price Trigger price refers to the pre-determined price criteria that can be set to trigger conditional orders or TPSL on the platform
    Trading Fee The trading fees received/payable by the traders to execute orders on the platform
    Transaction FeeShown inside your withdrawal history. It is equivalent to the mining fees paid to withdraw your asset. 
    Transaction IDTransaction ID that is uniquely assigned to each individual trade successfully transacted on the platform 
    Trade HistoryTrade History records the transaction details of all your successfully executed orders, trading fees and funding fees that were paid/collected.  

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    UV

    UID Account unique ID number
    Unrealized P&L Estimated profit and loss of your position based on the current LTP and does not include trading or funding fees

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    W X Y Z

    XRPUSD Bybit's Ripple perpetual contracts

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