All terms
Information or an edge not yet widely known.
Alpha originally meant returns above a benchmark. In crypto slang it means a useful tip or early information, and alpha groups are communities built around sharing it.
Real alpha is rare and rarely free. Most things labeled alpha are either already priced in or are someone looking for exit liquidity.
If alpha is being broadcast to a large public group, it is no longer alpha.
That alpha shared publicly is still alpha. The moment it reaches a group chat with thousands of people it is positioning, and whoever posted it usually bought first. Information you were given for free is rarely the edge.
Common questions
Is publicly shared alpha ever real?
Where does real alpha come from?
Where this comes up on the site
The guides that actually use this word, rather than a list of everything we have written.
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