Skip to content
parchmentdocs
Open app

Glossary

Account key (AccountCap)

The object in your wallet that controls your Parchment account. Needed to deposit, withdraw and change account settings.

Bust price

The price at which a position is liquidated. The app also calls it the liquidation price.

Close-only

A market state with no new opens. Closes and liquidations still run.

Collateral

Margin minus the open fee: what is locked in the position.

Deadband

The first small part of a favorable move that pays nothing. See Fees.

Delegate

An address your account lets trade for you, such as a one-click session key or the TP/SL trigger service.

Execution fee

$0.02 per open or close request. It pays the keeper's gas.

Free balance

USDC in your account that is not held by an order or position. You trade and withdraw from it.

House pool

The pool that takes the other side of every trade. See House pool.

Keeper

Parchment's service that fills orders, liquidates and runs session closes.

Margin

The USDC you put into a position, including the open fee.

Notional (size)

Collateral times leverage.

PARCHMENT (PARCH)

The token minted on trading losses. See PARCHMENT token.

Payout factor

The share of a winning position's size that is paid, set when you open. See Markets.

Payout queue

Where winnings wait when the pool is short. See Payout queue.

Session close

Closing positions at a snapshot price when a market closes. See Markets.

Session key

A browser key registered as a delegate for one-click trading. It can trade but not withdraw.