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.
API
An 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
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
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
Dual price mechanism consists of mark price & last traded price. It is mainly used to protect traders from market manipulations
Daily Realized P&L
Daily 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 Rate
It 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.
Trading fees set aside by the system to afford the estimated trading fee to open the position
Fee to Close
Trading fees set aside by the system to afford the estimated trading fee to close the position
Funding
Funding is the primary mechanism to ensure Bybit’s last traded price is always anchored to the global spot price
Funding Rate
Funding 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.
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.
Hedging 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.
The 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 Price
The 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 Notional
Impact 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 Price
Index price is derived from the sum of the prices from various spot exchanges multiplied by their respective weightage
Interest Quote Index
The 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 Index
The 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.
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.
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 Order
Maker 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
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
It 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.
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.
ROI
Return of Investment percentage. Inside the Bybit calculator, this highlights a position's P&L relative to the position margin in terms of percentage.
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 Order
Taker 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 Fee
Shown inside your withdrawal history. It is equivalent to the mining fees paid to withdraw your asset.
Transaction ID
Transaction ID that is uniquely assigned to each individual trade successfully transacted on the platform
Trade History
Trade History records the transaction details of all your successfully executed orders, trading fees and funding fees that were paid/collected.
