Glossary

Instrument

A tradable entity like stock, future, option, or index.

Exchange

Market venue/segment identifier like NSE, BSE, NFO.

Order

Request to buy/sell an instrument.

Trade (Fill)

Actual execution event generated from an order.

Position

Current net open quantity for an instrument.

Holding

Delivery inventory carried in account.

Product Type

How broker treats margin/holding (CNC, MIS, NRML).

Order Type

Execution style (MARKET, LIMIT, SL, SL_M).

Tick

Realtime market update from WebSocket.

Quote

REST snapshot of current market values.

Candle

OHLC bar for a time interval.

GTT

Trigger rule that places order when condition is met.

OCO

One-cancels-other: two trigger legs where one execution cancels the other.

Access Token

Session token required for authenticated broker API calls.

Auth Mode

How login is done (manual token vs auto flow where supported).

Stale Instrument Cache

Local symbol/token database is out of date.

Idempotency Tag

Client-side unique tag used to reduce duplicate order risk.