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Glossary

Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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Tape reading

Trading & orders

Reading the live sequence of executed trades and the resting depth book to infer what participants are doing.

In plain terms

Worth using to decide whether to send a market or a limit order right now. Not worth using to predict direction, and hopeless as a speed contest against algorithms.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya