Getting Started

Tapeboard is a brutalist market terminal — sidebar on the left, mono UI, every surface reachable in two keystrokes or one click. The §TRADE group up top holds the free Simulator and Journal.

Tapeboard is a brutalist market terminal for retail. Mono UI, dark theme, sidebar on the left, every surface reachable in two keystrokes. Pre-market through after-hours covered. If you've used a professional trading terminal before, you already know the muscle memory — this page just maps it.

What it is

A single-pane terminal with a fixed left sidebar (§MARKETS, §TRADE, §RESEARCH, §MACRO, §TOOLS, §COMMUNITY), a ⌘K command palette for ticker jumps, and a status row at the bottom showing live data latency. No icons in the expanded sidebar — text only.

When to use it

Open this page once, on first login. After that, you live in /scanner, /charts, /research/<TICKER>, and /alerts.

Sidebar expanded showing the §MARKETS and §TRADE groups, with SIMULATOR and JOURNAL at the top

First 10 minutes

Hit ⌘K and type a ticker — say NVDA. The command palette is your jump-to-anywhere; it routes to /research/NVDA.
Press ⌘2 to open the Scanner. The default layout auto-switches by session — pre-market before 9:30, market-open for the first hour, power-hour after 3:00 PM ET.
Click any row in the scanner. The chart opens inline below it. Press F to fullscreen, Esc to close.
From the chart, press R to jump to that ticker's Research page — AI summary, financials, insider flow, earnings, news.
Press ⌘3 to land on Charts directly. Switch timeframes with the 1–9 number row (1 = 1-min, 5 = 1H, 7 = daily). Drawings save per-ticker, per-account.
Set a price alert: open the right-click menu on the chart's price axis, or go to /alerts. Free tier gets three; Pro is unlimited.

The sidebar groups every surface in the product:

§MARKETS — DASHBOARD ⌘1, SCANNER ⌘2, CHARTS ⌘3, HEATMAP
§TRADE — SIMULATOR ⌘6, JOURNAL ⌘7 — the practice-then-review loop, both free, sitting at the top of the nav
§RESEARCH — RESEARCH ⌘4, OPTIONS, FILINGS, INSIDER, NEWS
§MACRO — ECONOMIC ⌘5, FOREX, CRYPTO, BONDS, COMMODITIES, CALENDAR
§TOOLS — ALERTS, INBOX, OPTIONS_FLOW, GAMMA_EXPOSURE, CORRELATION, BREADTH, INSIDER_SCAN, IDEA_TRACKER, BACKTEST
§COMMUNITY — IDEAS, AI_HISTORY, BLOG, WIKI

Active row gets a 2px green left-accent and a faint green wash. Collapse the sidebar with the chevron at the bottom — it'll snap to icon-only mode and reclaim the horizontal real estate for charts.

The §TRADE group is deliberately near the top: the Simulator and the Trading Journal are the stickiest loop in the product (practice a setup, close it, watch it auto-log and score), and both are free, so they're placed where you'll actually find them rather than buried deeper in the menu. Jump straight to them with ⌘6 (Simulator) and ⌘7 (Journal).

Tier matrix

Surface	Free	Pro ($39/mo · $290/yr ≈ $24/mo annual)	Terminal ($79/mo · $63/mo annual)
Scanner panels	3	Unlimited	Unlimited
Scanner presets	4 curated	All 50	All 50 + AI natural-language scans
Chart indicators	12	All 53	All 53
Watchlist tickers	10	50	Unlimited
Price alerts	3	Unlimited	Unlimited + sound + email
Options Flow	locked	full	full
Gamma Exposure	locked	full	full
Level 2 + time & sales (view)	locked	full	full
Simulator order types	market only	all order types	+ L2 walk-book fills

Full breakdown lives in Pricing. New accounts get a seven-day Pro trial of the scanner — no card.

Open it

Path: any URL works; /dashboard is the default landing
Shortcut: ⌘K from anywhere — search bar takes ticker symbols, page names, and > commands
Tier-gate: none

Limits

Live data latency target: < 50ms (shown in the sidebar footer)
Pre-market data starts at 4:00 AM ET; after-hours runs to 8:00 PM ET
Mobile sidebar collapses to a bottom-tab nav under 768px