Vocabulary for trading, Cloudflare edge services, and Hoox platform concepts used throughout the docs.
A curated vocabulary of terms used throughout the Hoox documentation. Understanding these terms is essential for effective navigation of the platform.
General Trading
Term
Definition
Webhook
An automated HTTP POST callback triggered by an external system (e.g., TradingView) when a specific event occurs, such as a technical indicator crossover.
Signal
A structured JSON payload sent to the Hoox Gateway instructing it to execute a trade. Signals originate from TradingView alerts, email parsing, or Telegram commands.
Leverage
LONG
A trade direction indicating the purchase (buy) of an asset with the expectation that its price will rise.
SHORT
A trade direction indicating the sale (sell) of an asset with the expectation that its price will fall.
CLOSE
An action to flatten (exit) an existing open position, returning the account to a neutral state.
Side (BUY/SELL)
The translated exchange-level direction. LONG maps to BUY, SHORT maps to SELL.
PositionSide
The margin mode direction (LONG or SHORT) used in hedge-mode futures trading.
Trailing Stop-Loss
A dynamic stop-loss order that automatically adjusts as the market moves in the trader's favor, locking in profits while limiting downside.
Take-Profit (TP)
A target price at which a position is automatically closed to lock in profits.
Drawdown
The percentage decline in account equity from its peak to its current level.
Liquidation
The forced closure of a leveraged position when margin requirements are no longer met.
Fill
A successfully executed trade order on the exchange.
Slippage
The difference between the expected price of a trade and the actual price at which it is executed, often caused by market volatility or latency.
Architecture & Infrastructure
Term
Definition
Edge Worker
A lightweight JavaScript function running on Cloudflare's globally distributed edge servers, executing code as close to end users (or data sources) as possible.
V8 Isolate
A sandboxed JavaScript runtime instance within Cloudflare Workers, providing strong isolation between tenants with zero shared memory.
Microservice
A small, independently deployable service that performs a single business function within the Hoox architecture.
Service Binding
A Cloudflare feature enabling direct, low-latency communication between edge workers inside the V8 engine — no public internet routing required.
Durable Object (DO)
A Cloudflare primitive providing single-threaded, persistent server-side state. Used by Hoox for idempotency locks and distributed coordination.
A globally distributed, highly available key-value store optimized for high-read/low-write operations at sub-millisecond latency.
R2 Object Storage
An S3-compatible, zero-egress-fee object storage service for storing arbitrary data (logs, reports, backups).
Cloudflare Queues
A serverless message broker providing at-least-once delivery with built-in exponential backoff retry for asynchronous processing.
Vectorize
A serverless vector search database enabling semantic matching and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
Browser Rendering
A Cloudflare service providing headless Chrome instances at the edge for automated web interaction and PDF generation.
Analytics Engine
A time-series metrics platform for tracking API call latency, error rates, and custom events across all workers.
Smart Placement
A Cloudflare optimization that automatically deploys worker code to the edge node geographically closest to its external API dependencies.
Zero Trust Architecture
A security model where no service trusts any other by default. All access is authenticated, authorized, and encrypted — even internal communications.
Kill Switch
An emergency mechanism (stored in KV) that instantly halts all trade execution globally when activated, requiring no code redeployment.
Security
Term
Definition
Idempotency
The property ensuring that a given operation (e.g., a trade signal) produces the same result whether executed once or multiple times — preventing duplicate trades.
HMAC-SHA256
A cryptographic signing algorithm used to authenticate order payloads sent to exchange APIs, ensuring message integrity and origin verification.
Secret Binding
An encrypted credential injected directly into a V8 isolate at runtime. Secrets are never stored in code, config files, or logs.
WAF (Web Application Firewall)
A network-layer security service that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic based on customizable rules (e.g., IP allow-listing).
CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)
A browser security mechanism. Hoox disables CORS on the gateway to prevent unauthorized cross-domain requests.
IP Allow-listing
Restricting access to the webhook endpoint to a predefined list of trusted IP addresses (e.g., TradingView's known ranges).
Development & Tooling
Term
Definition
Bun
A fast JavaScript runtime, package manager, and test runner used as Hoox's primary development toolchain.
monorepo
A repository structure containing multiple packages/workers managed together with shared dependencies and tooling.
Bun Workspace
A Bun feature enabling multiple packages within a monorepo to share dependencies and reference each other locally.
Wrangler
Cloudflare's official CLI tool for developing, deploying, and managing Cloudflare Workers and associated resources.
Docker Compose
A container orchestration tool used by Hoox for running isolated local development environments with all services.
TUI (Terminal User Interface)
A full-screen, keyboard-driven terminal dashboard (./hoox-tui) for monitoring and controlling the Hoox platform.
OpenTUI
A React-based framework for building terminal user interfaces, used to construct Hoox's TUI.
OpenNext
An adapter enabling Next.js applications to run on Cloudflare Workers. Hoox uses it for the dashboard Command Center.
Drizzle
A lightweight TypeScript ORM used with D1 for database schema management and migrations.
CI/CD
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment. Hoox's pipeline runs linting, type checks, unit tests, and build verification.
Exchange-Specific
Term
Definition
MEXC
A global cryptocurrency exchange supporting spot and futures trading. One of three supported exchanges.
Bybit
A cryptocurrency derivatives exchange known for its high-performance API. One of three supported exchanges.
Binance
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume. One of three supported exchanges.
Tip
Cross-referenced from nearly every section of the documentation.