A desktop terminal
Desktop market terminals
A terminal is a professional instrument with professional coverage — and a professional price, a licence per seat and a machine it has to be installed on.
What a desktop terminal is genuinely good at
Terminals cover asset classes we do not: licensed equity, futures and FX feeds, corporate actions, fundamentals, news. If your work needs a redistributor’s licence, that is what you are paying for and no browser product substitutes for it.
What is different here
This is a charting and alerting product for the venues we ingest ourselves, in a browser, with no install and no per-seat licence. The chart is the same one on every machine you sign in from, the alert evaluator runs whether or not your laptop is open, and the arrangement you spent a year building stays readable even if you stop paying.
When you should stay exactly where you are
If you need licensed equity or futures data, you need a licensed redistributor. We are not one and say so on the pricing page as well as here.
What the licence buys, and what it costs
Most of a terminal's price is not software. It is the right to redistribute other people's market data, plus the coverage and the obligations that come with it.
Licensed equity, futures and FX feeds are not something a product can decide to have. They are contracts, per venue, with reporting requirements, per-seat entitlement checks and audit obligations attached — and the machinery to honour all of that is a large part of what sits behind a terminal seat. Layer on fundamentals, corporate actions, news and a support desk that answers on a trading floor, and four figures a year per seat stops looking arbitrary.
If your work needs any of that, the comparison is over and the answer is a terminal. No browser product substitutes for a redistribution licence, and this one does not claim to.
What is different once you decide you do not need the licence
| Capability | A desktop terminal | Here |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Licensed equities, futures, FX, fixed income, fundamentals, corporate actions and news. | The public crypto venues we ingest into our own store, plus a daily equity series if you bring your own provider key. |
| Cost model | A per-seat licence, typically four figures a year, with data entitlements on top. | Free to $49 a month, with the top tier including 25 seats. |
| Where it runs | An installed application on a machine, usually a specific one. | A browser. The same chart on every machine you sign in from, with nothing to install and nothing to keep updated. |
| When your laptop is closed | Server-side alerting is generally available, and generally excellent. | The alert evaluator is a separate process that runs regardless. It imports the same indicator module the chart does, so it cannot fire on a number you were never shown. |
| If you stop paying | The seat ends and the terminal stops. | The workspace goes read-only. Every layout, drawing, watchlist and alert stays visible and stays where it is; nothing is deleted. |
| Getting data out | Constrained by the redistribution terms, which is the licence working as intended. | CSV of the candles behind any chart, and a read API on Premium. We ingested them; there is nobody to ask. |
We are not a redistributor, and the pricing page says so too
It is the single most important thing to be unambiguous about, because getting it wrong wastes a reader's time and can waste their money.
Our market data comes from the public REST and WebSocket endpoints that public crypto venues publish for the purpose, ingested at cadences below their published limits and stored in our own database. That is it. We hold no licence to redistribute equity, futures or FX data, we do not resell anyone’s feed, and the one equity path we offer runs on a key you supply, on a free tier that allows 25 requests a day.
The consequence is a narrower product with a much shorter chain of dependencies. Depth is ours to set. Aggregation to an unusual interval is a query rather than a request to a vendor. And a bad afternoon at one venue is a degraded chart with last-known bars and a label saying so, rather than an outage of somebody else’s business we can only report.
Where we are simply smaller
There is no research desk, no news feed, no chat, no dealing, no fundamentals and no support line that picks up in seconds. There is a charting and alerting product for the venues we cover, built properly, at a price that does not need a business case.
If that is the shape of the thing you need, the features page is the detailed version and the pricing page reads its numbers from the same table the server enforces.
The other two comparisons
Three categories, and no product names anywhere on this site. A page comparing us to a named competitor is a page that becomes wrong the next time they ship, with their trademark on it.
Every number on the pricing page is read from the same table the server enforces.