// dated release notes for the scanner, charts, journal, and simulator — newest first
§01 // RELEASE_HISTORY
The tape has a voice now.
New this month
News Audio — a 24/7 market voice channel, built in
One tap and the market reads itself to you: breaking headlines spoken aloud as they land, tickers pronounced like names, prices read like language. Pick your lane in Settings — all headlines, movers + halts only, or macro-only — and the volume sticks across devices. Quieting the terminal (Calm Mode) quietens it too.
The NEWS AUDIO control lives in the scanner toolbar. One tap and the session reads itself out loud.Try it in the scanner →
Improvements
The scanner holds still while tape flies: rows update in place, the tape no longer pushes the page around during busy sessions, and the whole workspace uses noticeably less CPU during market hours.
AI answers got faster — all AI features (Break It Down, AI Chat, explainers) now run on a lane chosen for speed, and requests recover by themselves if a model provider hiccups, so the assistant answers instead of going quiet.
Sign-up is one tap with Google by default — no extra checkboxes in the way.
Fixes
Price columns now display consistently through every refresh — no more flickering fractional states mid-update.
The pre-market ticker no longer replays Friday’s numbers on Monday mornings; weekend sessions label their data age honestly.
The mobile overhaul, and a terminal that stops making you wait.
New this month
Read the news without leaving the tape
Headlines open as full articles inside Tapeboard — clean readable text, your place remembered, no more being kicked out to a browser tab mid-session.
Full stories, in the app: the tape stays behind you while you read.See it in News →
The phone app, rebuilt for real
The scanner is a swipeable card feed with live mini-charts, the Simulator has thumb-sized tickets and a replay bar for practicing on real days, and the Journal lives in the bottom tab bar. Everything on a phone now feels built for a phone.
The mobile Simulator rebuilt end-to-end: searchable tickets, scrollable orders, thumb-sized actions.Open Tapeboard on your phone →
Practice with nothing on the line — no account needed
The Simulator now runs with no sign-up at all: paper-trade the real tape instantly, create the account only when you want to keep your record across devices. On top of that, an opt-in weekly practice league and a report card that grades your process — stops set, plan followed, notes written.
Closed trades replay bar-by-bar — entry, stop, target — so review sessions show what actually happened instead of what you remember.
Per-trade replay: the bars you traded, one by one.Open Journal →
Pop out any panel into its own window
Build your layout across monitors: any panel pops out to its own window, and full workspace layouts now export/import as portable files so you can back them up or share them.
Tapeboard.com opens with the live product — a working mini-scanner and real surfaces — not a render. See what the platform does in the first five seconds.
The homepage now opens with the real product: a working scanner on live data, not a screenshot.See the homepage →
Improvements
A real speed pass across the whole terminal: pages reserve their space while data loads (layout no longer shifts as content arrives), the scanner boots roughly twice as fast as it did at the start of the month, and chart panels draw once per tick instead of twice.
Squeeze board learned context: a CAT flag marks names with a fresh news catalyst, an SI badge shows the age of the short-interest reading it rests on, and verdict tags judge the board against today’s tape instead of fixed cutoffs.
Alerts got a proper home: a master notification switch, per-category toggles, quiet hours, and chime templates — and custom scans can push alerts to your pocket even with the tab closed.
Watchlists take notes per ticker now, and your saved watchlists show up right on the Watchlist page.
AI chat remembers your thread per stock — leave, come back, it’s still there.
Light theme reached every last chart surface — every page honors your Light/Dark preference.
Fixes
Level 2, Depth, and Montage ladders no longer freeze after a ticker switch.
Charts keep painting after hours — quotes outside regular sessions flow onto the live candle instead of freezing the chart at the close.
Halt alerts fire once per halt, not twice.
Email got sturdier on our end; alerts and daily digests arrive when they should.
Ask the tape questions. It answers.
New this month
Break It Down — what’s actually moving a stock
One button on any ticker gives you the plain-English read: what’s moving it, the bull case, the bear case, the risk flags — grounded in the same live data you’re looking at. It explains; it never advises. Everyone gets one free breakdown a day.
Break It Down — a plain-English read on what’s actually moving a stock, grounded in live data.Try Break It Down →
Earnings Desk
A filings-based read on a company heading into its report — revenue trend, cash flow versus accruals, what buybacks are doing to the share count. Numbers, not forecasts.
12 new momentum indicators from the research world
Momentum and breadth factors adapted from academic quant work — 10/20/60-day momentum, up/down-day ratios, range position, price-volume divergence and more — in the indicator picker under Community. No formula editing required.
Momentum and breadth factors from academic quant research, one line each, no setup.See it on a chart →
Magic-link sign-up on your phone
One tap from phone to account: email in, sign-in link out. No password to invent and forget.
Mobile signup, simplified — email in, sign-in link out.
Your watchlists, actually yours
The Watchlist page shows YOUR saved lists — pick one, edit it inline, and the whole app stays in sync.
Your saved lists, right there on the Watchlist page — pick one and it stays in sync everywhere.Open Watchlist →
Improvements
You can browse a working terminal before you sign in — live scans, charts, and news — so an empty unlock screen is never your first impression.
Free tier got real: one free Break It Down a day for everyone, three when you have a free account, and the Free Level 2 page spells out exactly what you get.
The scanner reached a 500-symbol universe with a new Momentum Now preset for the fastest movers of the session, and preset tabs show their live hit counts.
The alert builder reads like a sentence — indicator, period, condition — and alerts deliver even with the tab closed.
The BREAKING banner got pickier: it interrupts only for hard catalysts, and once you dismiss a headline it stays dismissed.
Fixes
Every price on a ticker page — quote, chart, tape, panels — now comes from the same read, all session long.
Scanner labels tell the truth: the freshness chip shows when data was actually computed, volume figures hold the day’s cumulative number, and the VWAP column is named what it actually computes.
The simulator explains order rejections in plain language, with the ticket left open for another go.
A full trading desk: options, drawing tools, and alerts anywhere in the room.
New this month
Draw on the charts
Trendlines, Fibonacci, rectangles, notes — your drawings save per symbol and follow you across devices. Each tool remembers your style.
Anchor a VWAP to any candle; every drawing tool remembers your color and weight.Draw on any chart →
Options trading with full Greeks
The complete options chain with implied volatility and the Greeks for every strike — and paper-trade options right next to your stock positions.
Drop a CSV from any broker and the Import wizard maps the columns and brings your trades in paired and fee-inclusive. Sterling, IBKR, TradeStation, Tastytrade and more have first-class support.
Any broker can export CSV → mapped, paired, and charted in the journal.Journal → Import →
Alerts that find you anywhere
Multi-condition alerts now run server-side and reach you with the tab closed — in-app, email, or webhook into your own tools.
Multi-condition alert: choose email, app, or webhook — it fires even when the app is closed.
Light theme
Settings → Appearance now offers System, Light, and Dark. The default follows your device automatically.
The light theme follows your system setting by default.
Crypto heatmap and the /halts tape
A crypto overview heatmap (market-cap weighted, hourly and daily), plus a live page of today’s trading halts — LULD circuit breakers, news halts, resumes — all in one read.
The crypto heatmap: the whole coin market at a glance.Open the heatmap →
Improvements
Charts feel faster load-to-load: symbol switching no longer rebuilds the whole chart, and micro-charts only repaint when the data actually changes.
The simulator learned broker-grade behavior: market-hours-aware day orders, realistic limit fills, estimated fill prices before you commit, and honest slippage after hours.
The journal got deep: Sharpe, exit efficiency, hold-time analysis, a monthly PDF export, and shareable drill-downs per stat — plus share your whole journal with a coach through a private link.
Tape Score now sits on your dashboard from day one, explained, free on every plan.
Watchlists and quick preferences carry with you the moment you sign in — a fresh device is never a fresh start.
Fixes
Scanner rows and watchlist tables hold their shape: ticker symbols stay pinned while data scrolls, and duplicate rows in Most Active are gone.
Occasional sign-in email links that outlived their welcome now work for a full week.
Stop-loss and take-profit attachments stay exactly where you put them, including across devices.
The terminal era begins.
New this month
The Tapeboard terminal, relaunched
Scanner, charts, research, options, simulator, and macro data — one workspace with one command bar and one hotkey language across it all.
Scanner, chart, and Level 2 side by side — the desk layout from day one.See the terminal →
Over 50 indicators and a full drawing toolkit
The chart unlocks everything the engine can hold: dozens of technical indicators, drawing tools with per-symbol persistence, auto-detected patterns, and a custom-formula editor.