Kamla
Education
Glossary
The terms Kamla uses, explained for people who never traded. No jargon for jargon's sake: every word here appears somewhere in the product.
- Signal
- Kamla's daily decision: one symbol to buy, with a defined entry, stop and target. It comes out once a day, around 14:00 UTC. On defensive days, the signal is not to trade.
- Swing trading
- A trading style where positions last days, not minutes. It is Kamla's only style: one decision per day, no blinking screens.
- Entry
- The price at which the brain decided to buy. If the current price is already far from the entry zone, the signal loses validity.
- Stop (stop-loss)
- An automatic sell order if the price falls 8% below entry. It caps the loss of each position. At Kamla it is part of the signal, not optional.
- Target (take profit)
- An automatic sell order when the price rises 8% above entry. It locks in the gain without you having to watch.
- Market regime
- The brain's daily read of the overall environment: risk-friendly (conditions to enter), defensive (protect first) or neutral. On defensive days Kamla prefers not to trade.
- Paper trading
- Simulated trading with fake money on real brokerage accounts. All of Kamla's public results are paper trading, and we always say so.
- Brokerage
- The company where your trading account lives. Kamla connects to Alpaca (US): the account is yours, the money is yours, Kamla only sends orders.
- API keys
- The pair of codes Alpaca gives you to authorize apps to trade on your account. They are stored encrypted at Kamla and cannot withdraw money.
- Equity
- The total value of your account right now: cash plus the value of open positions.
- Exposure
- The percentage of the account invested in positions. 40% exposure means 60% sits in cash, out of risk.
- Position
- Shares of a symbol you hold. Every Kamla position is born with a stop and a target.
- Drawdown
- The fall from the account's highest point to its lowest. It measures the worst moment the strategy lived through.
- Win rate
- The percentage of closed trades that ended in profit. Alone it doesn't tell the whole story: how much you win when right and lose when wrong matters too.
- Benchmark
- The standard of comparison. Kamla compares itself to SPY (the S&P 500 index): if it can't beat the market, it doesn't deserve to exist.
- Slippage
- The difference between the price at decision time and the price the order actually fills at. Kamla publishes its own.
- Kill switch
- The button that stops all automatic execution on your account, immediately. Always one tap away, in the app and on Telegram.
- Auto-execution
- Kamla sends the daily signal's orders directly to YOUR account, within your limits. You can turn it off anytime.
- Conviction
- How much the signal stood out in the day's criteria: high, medium or low. Position size follows conviction.
- Track record
- Kamla's complete public history of decisions and results, red days included. No cherry-picking: the record is the product.
Educational content. Nothing on this page is financial advice or a promise of results.