The concepts underneath the metrics
Not a beginner's crypto glossary. These are the specific ideas you need in order to read the methodology pages - each written to the point where it stops being obvious.
Every page here answers one question and says where the concept breaks down. That second part is the reason these exist: most explanations of "what is volatility" stop at the definition, which is exactly where the interesting part starts.
If you are working through the methodology, start with percentile ranking. Four of the seven Moonboard metrics are percentile ranks, and almost every misreading of a Moonboard number traces back to that one idea.
Statistics
Market
What is volatility?
How much a price moves, why it has no direction, and why the measurement window changes the answer.
What is market liquidity?
The ability to trade size without moving the price - and why every practical measure of it is a proxy.
What is the volume-to-market-cap ratio?
Turnover: the single most useful liquidity comparison available from public data.
What is sector rotation?
Attention and capital concentrating in one category then another, and why measuring it depends on a classification choice.
Social
What is market sentiment?
Turning what people write into a number, and the specific ways crypto text breaks that process.
What is social momentum?
The claim that conversation precedes price, and what would actually be needed to establish it.
What is social dominance?
Share of voice as a measurement, and why a relative metric moves when other assets move.
What is sentiment divergence?
When mood and market data disagree - the general concept, and how Moonboard implements it specifically.
Related
- MethodologyWhere these concepts are applied
- CalculatorsRun the arithmetic yourself
- ResearchWhere the concepts get difficult
- Data categoriesThe fields these operate on