GLOSSARY
The features and words you meet in the app, from the strategy card to the track record. Search a term, or browse by topic.
The trading app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android. It gives you complete strategies (entry, target, stop and position size), follows each one level by level and tells you when to get out. You decide and place your orders with your own broker.
The engine behind Ticks: a professional trading algorithm running 24/7, behind more than 30,000 closed strategies. It scans the markets, keeps only the strongest setups, sizes each strategy, recalculates its levels in real time and decides the exit.
An opportunity found by Genius AI on an asset, shown as a card: the asset, the side (Long or Short), the status, the stop, the entry, the target and the levels, plus the AI confidence, the win rate and the risk/reward. Everything updates in real time. Tap the card to open its detail.
What the strategy trades, shown at the top of the card with its symbol: BTC/USD, EUR/USD, gold, an index, a stock or an ETF.
The asset families covered by Ticks: crypto, forex, indices, commodities, stocks, ETFs and futures. Crypto is free; the others open with All Markets.
A strategy that gains when the price rises. Its levels go up from the entry towards the target.
A strategy that gains when the price falls. Its levels go down from the entry towards the target.
A badge on a strategy born from a previous strategy on the same asset: Genius AI has spotted a new opportunity that extends the same move. You follow it exactly like the others.
Related: Strategy
How long a strategy lasts. Ticks strategies cover the short, medium and long term: market volatility sets the pace of the entry and the exit, and Ticks alerts you at every step.
The strategy has been found but its entry price has not been reached yet. The card shows how far the price must rise or fall to enter.
Related: Entry · All · Open · Pending
The entry price has been reached and the strategy is running. The result is shown in % from the entry and updates live.
Related: Open result · In position
Genius AI has decided the exit. The card stays visible for 24 hours, then the strategy joins the track record.
Related: Track record · Strategy closed
The tabs at the top of the strategy list: every strategy, only the running ones, or only those waiting for their entry.
The price at which the strategy starts. Until it is reached the strategy is Pending; once reached it goes LIVE and every result is measured from it.
The maximum accepted loss. It protects the strategy between the entry and the first level. As soon as a level is crossed, the levels take over and the stop is no longer used.
A theoretical price used to place the levels. It is not the exit: Genius AI can close before it or well beyond it, and the bar on the card extends when the price goes past the target.
Steps placed every 25% of the distance between the entry and the target: 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, then beyond. They go up for a Long and down for a Short. Each level crossed secures part of the gain.
Related: Secured level · Ratchet
The last level crossed, marked with a padlock. If the price comes back to it, the strategy closes with that gain. Each new level crossed replaces it.
Related: Ratchet · Level reached
The next step the price has to cross. When it does, it becomes the new secured level and you receive a Level reached notification.
How the levels protect a strategy: with every level crossed, the protection moves up one notch and secures the gain. It never moves back, and it can keep climbing with no ceiling.
Related: Levels · Secured level
The end of a strategy, decided by Genius AI: on the stop, on a secured level, or wherever the algorithm judges best — before the target or beyond it. You are notified the moment it happens.
Related: Strategy closed · Target
The live result of a running strategy, in % from the entry price. It is always shown in %, never as an amount: Ticks does not know your capital and places no orders.
The bar on each card: stop, entry, target and the levels in between, with the price moving along it. It turns green as the strategy advances and extends past the target when the price goes further.
The success potential of this strategy, calculated by Genius AI, from red (lower) to green (higher).
On a card: the share of past strategies on this asset that ended in a gain. In the track record: the share of all closed strategies over the chosen period that ended in a gain.
Related: AI confidence · Track record
The distance to the stop compared with the distance to the target. 1 : 1.5 means 1 of risk for 1.5 of targeted gain.
The share of your available buying power that Genius AI suggests for this strategy, in %. You apply it to your own capital at your broker.
The (?) next to a figure, in a strategy or in the track record. Tap it: every term is explained in one sentence, right where you need it.
The strategy’s full plan, opened by tapping a card: current price, open result, the chart with every level, the suggested position size and a (?) on each term.
The duration of each candle on the chart: 5 min, 1 h, 4 h or 1 D. Follow the same strategy at the scale you prefer.
The horizontal lines drawn on the candles: target, next level, secured level (or stop), entry and current price. The chart is built for portrait, so you see the whole plan at a glance.
The rotate button shows the chart full screen, in landscape, with two-finger zoom and the drawing tools.
Related: Drawing tools · Timeframe
In landscape mode: trend line, horizontal line, channel and Fibonacci, to add your own analysis on top of the strategy’s levels.
Notification sent when Genius AI finds a strategy: the asset, the side, the AI confidence and the levels.
Notification sent when the entry price is reached: the strategy goes LIVE.
Notification sent each time a level is crossed: the protection moves up one notch and a new part of the gain is secured.
Notification sent at the exit: the exit level and the result in %.
In Settings → Notifications, choose the alert types and the markets you want. Each switch saves on its own. Alerts also reach your Apple Watch.
The history of every closed strategy, public and in the app. Choose the period (7D, 1M, 3M, All) and the market; every closed strategy opens in detail.
Related: Average result per strategy · Profit factor
The average % result of all strategies closed over the period, gains and losses together. It is the figure that sums up the method best.
The total of the gains divided by the total of the losses over the period. Above 1, the method gains more than it loses.
Related: Payoff ratio · Average result per strategy
The average gain of a winning strategy divided by the average loss of a losing one.
The largest drop of the cumulative curve from a peak to a later low over the period, in %.
Related: Cumulative curve
The highest and the lowest result among the strategies closed over the period, in %.
The sum of the results of every closed strategy, in % from each entry, over time. Tap the curve to read its value on a given date.
Track record results are calculated between the entry price and the exit price shown, before spread, commission and financing costs, which depend on your broker.
Every crypto strategy is free for life with a Ticks account: prices, levels, notifications and track record, with no card required.
The subscription that opens forex, indices, commodities, stocks, ETFs and futures, with the same method: USD 89.99 a month or USD 799.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial. Subscribe in Settings → Subscription; payment goes through the App Store or Google Play.
Related: Free crypto · Unlock
A market outside crypto shows a padlock until you subscribe. Tap it, then Unlock, to start All Markets.
In Settings → Subscription: brings back an active subscription after a change of phone. Use the same store account as for the purchase.
Your account is personal: it follows you on iPhone, iPad and Android, with one active connection at a time. Switching device? Just sign in again.
Ticks works with your broker: you place your own orders wherever you trade. The Brokers section in Settings lists partner brokers by region, for those who want to open an account.
In Settings → Language: English, French, Spanish or Simplified Chinese.
Your strategies, their detail, the secured level and the next one, right on your wrist, with complications on the watch face. The watch connects through your iPhone and receives every notification.
On iPad, your strategies show in two or three columns; on an opened iPhone Duo, in two columns, to follow several markets at a glance.
No term matches. Ask the chat: it answers in seconds.
Crypto strategies are free for life. Every other market: 7 days free.
