What shipped, and when.

The second asset class is on the desk. Ten spot FX pairs replay off the same recorded market the equities tape does — real quotes, real spreads, and the thin hours left exactly as thin as they were.

Forex

• Ten pairs, driven by the quote tape rather than by candles. There is no volume in spot FX and the desk does not invent any: what moves the chart is bid and ask changing, which is what actually moved it.
• You pay the spread. Buys fill at the ask, sells and shorts at the bid, and your cost basis is the price you touched — not the mid.
• The market is open 24/5, and so is the session picker. Sunday 17:00 ET through Friday 17:00 ET, which means the Tokyo session is reachable for the first time.
• Pick a closed date and the form says so before you start, naming the reason — a weekend, a holiday, or a stretch where the tape is genuinely too thin to replay honestly.

The account

• A real margin account: leverage from 50:1 down to 1:1, Free Margin, Margin Level, and margin reserved on the position instead of full notional.
• An order that would exceed free margin is refused before it is sent, with the requirement shown next to what you have.
• Selling more than you hold closes what you hold and stops. It does not flip you short by accident.

Fills

• Orders larger than the tape can absorb fill in pieces at the prices the tape actually printed, and you can watch them walk.
• In the thin hours — the 17:00 ET rollover especially — orders fill slower and wider, because the quotes really did stop arriving.
• Right-click any fill for the reasoning: the latency, the spread you crossed, and where each fraction of a pip went.
• Prices carry fractional pips, so a 0.2-pip spread reads as 0.2, not 0.

Charts

• Tick delta and session CVD for forex, drawn from classified quote changes, with volume bars tinted by which side was leading.
• The spread meter carries a liquidity-provider count and a sparkline, so a widening spread can be read against how many venues were still quoting.

Fixed

• Cash in the session header was reporting a forex position as though its full notional had left your account. It now reads the same margin basis as every other figure on the desk.
• Finishing a forex session and saving it to the journal returned an error and lost the record. Forex sessions save.

A finished session can now leave the desk as a link — one anybody can open, watch, and take a run at themselves.

Shareable session cards

• Turn a finished session into a card and share the link. Revoke it whenever you want; the link dies with it.
• The link unfurls properly in a chat or a timeline — a real card with the session’s numbers on it, not a bare URL.
• Anyone who opens it can watch the session play back without an account.
• Turn a card into a challenge: same ticker, same date, same start, same starting cash. Whoever takes it gets a versus card comparing the two runs side by side.

Signing in

• Sign in with a code sent to your email, instead of a password.

Replay

• Your fills, your resting orders, and your average cost now draw on the chart, so the position reads from the chart instead of the ticket.
• Losing the connection mid-session no longer costs you the session. Locates survive the drop, and the stream picks up where it left off rather than replaying stale ticks.
• An open position is now valued at cost when the session’s equity is computed, so the number on the desk stops disagreeing with the one on the recap.

Fixes

• The News panel worked everywhere except production, where it returned the site’s own HTML instead of headlines. Fixed, along with the same fault sitting unreported on the Time Machine import path.
• The Sign in link on this site pointed at a page that did not exist, so every signed-out visitor trying to get back to the desk hit a dead end.
• The contact address is now [email protected]. The address published before was on a domain that does not receive mail, so anything sent to it went nowhere.

The waitlist becomes a real signup, the chart stops being the weakest thing on the desk, and the slowest parts of starting a session stop being slow.

Join the beta

Ask for access, clear a bot check, and an invite arrives. Set a password and you’re on the desk; a welcome note follows half an hour later.

Speed

• Session startup: 24 seconds down to about 3.
• News headlines: about 75 seconds down to about 1.
• Indicators recompute incrementally and VWAP streams, bars are cached per frame, and a single trade tick no longer redraws every panel on the desk.

Charts

• Timeframes beyond the minute: 3m, 15m, 30m, 1h and 4h.
• Two more ways to read the same bars — Heikin-Ashi, and hollow candles.
• Indicators are picked from a catalog rather than a fixed list, and you can run more than one of the same indicator at once — two moving averages at different lengths, on the same chart.
• Every indicator instance has its own settings: parameters, colours, line width and style, applied as you change them and kept for next time.
• Anchored VWAP anchors where you tell it to — 4:00 ET or the 9:30 open — with optional ±1σ and ±2σ bands. It holds its value when you seek or switch timeframe instead of restarting from wherever you landed.
• Drawing tools place click-by-click, the tool you picked stays picked, and they live on an icon rail on the chart itself.
• Each pane has its own control strip, and the whole panel has been restyled.

Replay

• A News panel gated to the replay clock — headlines reveal as the clock reaches the moment they were published, never before.
• Settings split into sections instead of one long list.
• Scanner Day mode is greyed out while it’s still in development, rather than offering a mode that isn’t ready.

Data

• Daily bars are cached, and point-in-time float falls back to a secondary source when the primary comes up empty.

Joining the waitlist now sends a confirmation email. Click the link and your spot is confirmed — one round trip, so a mistyped address never silently holds a seat.

• Confirmation email on signup, with a landing page that acknowledges the confirmation.
• The form’s success state now tells you to check spam, which is where it lands often enough to be worth saying.

You can be short on the desk now — and you have to find the borrow first, the same as you would live.

Short selling and locate

• Signed positions and margin throughout, so a short is a real position rather than a sign flip on a long.
• A borrow market and a locate request: no locate, no short.
• Short-sale-restriction badge and a margin banner on the ticket, so the state reads before you send.

Replay

• An off-market print filter on the tape.
• VWAP seeded from the session’s earlier prints, so it reads correctly when you join mid-session.
• Reconnect handling on the replay stream.
• The chart crosshair tracks your pointer freely instead of snapping to the nearest bar.

Scanners

• The scanner cache now survives a restart and warms overnight, so alerts are ready when the session opens.

This site

• A public roadmap at /roadmap — everything shipped, plus the builds in flight.

First production release. The replay desk, an account to sign into, and this site.

The cockpit

• A dockable, splittable workspace you arrange yourself, with named layouts and built-in presets to start from.
• Chart settings — timeframe, log scale, auto-follow, indicators — kept per window instead of shared across all of them.
• A hotkey manager whose edits apply to the session you’re already in, the moment you save.
• Account balance on the desk, with an opening snapshot for the session.
• A dropped connection now says so and retries for real, instead of leaving a frozen panel behind.

Starting cash moved out of a first-run prompt and onto the replay page, where you set it per session.

Scanners and data

• Top-gainers snapshot scanner.
• Point-in-time float — shares outstanding less insider holdings, as they stood on the date you’re trading.

Account

• Sign-in with an auto-provisioned trader profile, a user menu, and a profile page.
• An admin console for user management and support.