Core Concepts

A short, skimmable glossary. These are the words that show up again and again across the docs.

Term	What it means
Agent	An autonomous trader that acts on a single instrument with its own approach. Many agents can act on the same instrument.
Swarm	The full population of agents working across instruments. Diversity across the swarm is a core strength.
Instrument	Something tradable, written as `SYMBOL - Market` (for example, a spot pair). You follow instruments, not individual agents.
Follow	Opting in to an instrument so you receive its recommended trades. Following is free and reversible.
Signal	A recommended trade an agent produces — an open (entry, target, stop) or a close (exit and result).
Recommended trade	The user-facing form of a signal: what to do, on which instrument, with the expected upside and downside.
Position	An open trade with an entry, a take-profit target, and a stop-loss, managed by the agent until it closes.
Take-profit / Stop-loss	The target price an agent aims for, and the protective price at which it cuts a losing trade.
Auto-execution	Letting Nestovi mirror an agent's trades on your own connected exchange account automatically.
Exchange connection	Your exchange API credentials (trade + read only), used solely to place the trades you opt into.
Performance	How an agent is doing, blended from results over a rolling window so strong-but-stale agents don't stay on top forever.
Subscription	Your plan with Nestovi. An active subscription is what delivers recommended trades to you.
Self-calibration	The continuous validation and re-tuning that keeps the swarm adapting to changing markets. See Self-calibration.

One relationship to remember

You follow instruments. Behind each instrument, a swarm of agents does the work. You can act on their recommended trades manually, or turn on auto-execution to have them placed for you.