Glossary

Definitions for the core concepts used across Tickblaze Manager - identity, entitlements, challenges, drawdown, accounts, and risk.

Definitions for the vocabulary used across this guide. Terms are grouped by theme; use search or your browser’s find to jump to one.

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Users and identity

Term	Definition
Pro / Non-Pro	Market-data classification chosen by self-certification at first login. Both classes get real-time data. Non-Pro (retail / personal use) is charged for L1 only - “no professional fee” means no professional fee, not free - and can buy L2 separately; Pro (licensed or institutional) requires both L1 and L2 and pays professional fees (the firm sets the price it charges its customers). Applies across all Tickblaze firms and persists. It can only be changed by a Reset self-certification - performed by the firm or the Tickblaze team when the trader picked the wrong classification by mistake - which lets them choose again.
Self-certification	The user’s own Pro/Non-Pro selection at first login. Cross-firm: it applies everywhere they trade on Tickblaze.
Reset self-certification	A support action, performed by the firm or the Tickblaze team, that re-prompts the user to choose Pro/Non-Pro on their next login. Used when the first selection was a mistake - the trader can then select a different classification. The firm also contacts Tickblaze to revert any incorrect Pro charge.
Related emails	Other email addresses belonging to the same person that the Tickblaze team has merged into this profile. If you spot a trader using more than one address, tell the Tickblaze team and they can merge them; the merged addresses then appear in this column.
Deduplication	Tickblaze-side process of merging several emails for the same person into a single identity that the platform treats as the real one.
Blocked	The user cannot trade. Set on the user record. Different from Disabled.
Disabled	The user record is deactivated. Different from Blocked.
Trading status	Whether a user can place trades right now - a combination of status, Blocked state, account state, and entitlement.
KYC / KYB	Know Your Customer / Know Your Business - identity verification, optionally run through a firm-chosen provider.
Order revenue	A customer-value field shown only for firms using their own payment provider. Not a Tickblaze billing figure.

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Entitlements and market data

Term	Definition
Entitlement	Per-user authorization to receive market data from a specific exchange (CBOT, CME, COMEX, NYMEX, or Nasdaq).
L1 data	Level 1 market data - top of book.
L2 data	Level 2 market data - full depth of book.
Authorization status	Whether a user’s entitlement for an exchange is Authorized, Revoked, or Pending.
Data level	The depth a user is entitled to - L1, L2, or both.

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Challenges and phases

Term	Definition
Challenge	An evaluation product a trader buys. Defines balance, rules, tradable markets, and the number of phases.
Short code	An optional suffix appended to account numbers, for example DD-50K.
Step	Which position a phase holds in the sequence (1, 2, 3).
Phase	A stage of a multi-step challenge, such as Evaluation or Payout.
Initial balance	The starting balance for accounts created under a challenge.
Swap mode	Normal (overnight fees apply) or Swap Free (no overnight fees). Most prop firms run Swap Free.
Broker type	The OMS or trading platform a challenge connects to.
Target profit %	Profit needed to complete a phase, on a 0.01–1.00 scale (0.10 = 10%).
Consistency %	A phase field recording your firm’s consistency rule - comparing a trader’s largest winning day against their other days. The drawdown engine does not evaluate it, so nothing on the platform fails an account for breaching it; enforcement is the firm’s own. See Challenge phases.
Leverage	Per-phase leverage. 1 for stocks; left blank for futures.
Live phase	Marks a phase as real-money. Tickblaze is currently simulation-only, so this is left unchecked.
News trading	Two separate things: the challenge flag News trading enabled is not functional yet - leave it off. The News trading count on Account details is informational only; automatic detection is still being built.
Tradable exchange	A per-challenge exchange the account may trade. Must match an existing data entitlement.
Individual tradable symbol	A per-challenge symbol rule; its max order and position sizes override the challenge defaults.
Default max order size	The challenge-level fallback for maximum order size.
Max position size (account)	The challenge-level cap on total open positions. For futures, 1 unit = 1 mini or 10 micros.

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Drawdown

Term	Definition
Drawdown (static)	A fixed loss threshold from the initial balance. It does not move. See Static.
Drawdown (intraday trailing)	A threshold that follows Peak equity up for the life of the account, including unrealized profit. It is never scoped to, or reset at, a day. (End-of-day trailing is different - it follows the highest closing balance.) Once it moves up, it never moves back down. See Trailing.
Drawdown (end-of-day trailing)	A threshold that updates only at end of day, based on the closing balance. It does not move during the day. See End of day.
Global DD threshold	The maximum drawdown for the whole account, in dollars - the field is labelled Global DD threshold on the phase form.
Daily drawdown	A daily loss limit in dollars. Always required as a value; enforcement depends on Check daily drawdown.
Check daily drawdown	Toggles whether the Daily drawdown value is enforced or just informational.
Failure threshold	The equity floor (balance plus unrealized PnL) at which an account fails - derived from the Global drawdown threshold and drawdown type. See the one rule.
Max trailing DD limit	An offset above the initial balance: a trailing floor stops climbing at initial balance + this value. On a $50,000 account, 100 gives a ceiling of $50,100 and 0 gives $50,000 - the initial balance itself. Only takes effect when Lock trailing drawdown is on.
Lock trailing drawdown	Activates the Max trailing drawdown limit. Without it, the limit value does nothing.
Lock drawdown on withdrawal	Preserves the drawdown buffer at withdrawal time, so a trader is not penalized for withdrawing.
Soft breach	Applies only to the daily drawdown. With Check daily drawdown on, hitting the daily limit flattens every position and cancels every order, and the account cannot trade for the rest of that session - instead of failing it. The account is not failed, and it resumes at the next session open (futures 6:00 PM EST), not at the 5:00 PM close.
Hard breach	With Check daily drawdown on and Soft breach off, hitting the daily limit fails the account. Max/global drawdown always hard-fails regardless.
Auto-flatten before market close	The single switch that makes a challenge intraday (on) or swing (off).

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Accounts and balances

Term	Definition
Account Details	The modal opened from an account row; it holds Overview, Positions, Order History, Status, and Settings subtabs.
Related accounts	Every account linked to this one - the accounts a trader moves through as they pass the phases of a multi-step challenge, plus any account issued to replace a failed one through a purchased reset.
MAE / MFE	Maximum Adverse Excursion / Maximum Favorable Excursion - how far a position moved against or for the trader.
Credit / Debit / Set	The three balance-adjustment types - add to, subtract from, or replace the balance with an absolute value.
Reference ID	An optional identifier attached to a balance adjustment, for example a payout reference.
Account event	An entry in the account’s audit log - every status change, adjustment, or admin action, with actor and timestamp.
Profit split	The share of profit paid to the trader on a payout.
Payout request	A trader’s withdrawal request against an account (part of the payout system - coming soon).
Giveaway account	An account flagged as a giveaway rather than a purchased challenge.
Source	How an account was created, for example a webhook.

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Accounts grid actions

Term	Definition
Live grid / Pause	The Accounts grid updates in real time by default. You must pause it before taking row actions.
Liquidate only	Reduce-only - the account can only close existing positions and cannot open new ones. Existing positions stay open until closed.
Flatten	Close positions on the account.
Cancel orders	Cancel pending and working orders without closing positions.
Flatten + Cancel	Close positions and cancel pending and working orders.
Flatten All / Flatten & Disable	Firm-level emergency actions applied across every account in the current filtered view.

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Risk operations

Term	Definition
Risk Operations	Bulk, cross-account corrections - Account Reset, Day Wiper, and Bulk Account Editor. Every action is logged to Account Events.
Full reset	Restores an account to its initial balance, wiping later state.
Partial reset	Restores an account to its previous end-of-day balance - less destructive than a full reset.
Day Wiper	Removes a specific trading day from selected accounts’ records.
Bulk Account Editor	Filters accounts and sets their status to Active or Failed in bulk.

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Symbols

Term	Definition
Multiplier	The contract multiplier for an instrument.
Commission/Fill, Commission/Order	Per-fill and per-order commission settings for a symbol.
Trading week	The days and hours a symbol is tradable.
Off-times	Windows when a symbol is not tradable - the operational lever for holidays and early closes.
EOD apply	Symbol changes take effect at end of day (5–6 PM EST), never mid-session.

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Platform

Term	Definition
Core platform	The live operating set every firm has - Tickblaze Manager, Proptech Configuration, and User Configuration.
Intelligence system	The broader layer Ignite is building - payouts, compliance and behavioral intelligence, competitions, rewards, and dashboards. In development; see Coming soon.
Inactivity rule	The intended rule that marks an account dormant after an agreed number of consecutive days without activity. Placeholder today - no threshold is applied yet, so nothing is currently marked Inactive by a rule. Failed accounts are excluded.