DISPLAY
Yours to shape
Position, speed, font, up/down colors, background — each ticker has its own settings.
Desktop market ticker
One thin line, pinned to the top of your screen. Your symbols, moving in real time — over whatever you were already doing.
A broker’s ticker is a one-way feed, the same for everyone. This one carries only what you chose, and lights up only on the conditions you set. Why that matters →
It stays as you scroll — the same way it stays over your spreadsheet, your chart, your editor. Point at it and it stops; click a symbol and its card opens. On your desktop that’s the Take setting — by default clicks pass through.
01 — Presence
No window to open. No tab to check. The line sits above your work and never asks for the foreground.
Clicks pass through by default. Set a ticker to Take and pointing stops it, the wheel scrolls it, and a click opens the symbol.
02 — Selection
A wall shows everything to everyone. This shows what you picked — and nothing you didn't.
That difference is bigger than it sounds. A wall ranks by noise: biggest mover, heaviest volume. Your own holdings, the names you've been waiting on, the index that actually drags them around — none of that is on it.
Six years of records from 78,000 households showed individual investors mostly buying whatever happened to be loudest that day, for the simple reason that nobody can search thousands of names (Barber and Odean, 2008). A deck is the list you wrote before any of it started flashing.
You make it in the studio. Build small components — your holdings, a sector’s top five, a rule — and drop them into a deck. Then drop the deck on a line.
Watch the line above: it just narrowed to four.
03 — Attention
Set the condition once. When it's met, the line tells you — whether or not you were looking.
A symbol you've set an alert on stays on the line, even when it no longer matches your filter.
04 — Path
Prices come from the exchange to your machine. Our servers are not on that path — so they can't be the thing that goes down.
Keys stay in your computer's own credential store.
DISPLAY
Position, speed, font, up/down colors, background — each ticker has its own settings.
MULTI-SCREEN
Each monitor can carry two tickers, and each ticker up to three lines.
BACKUP
Export it, move it, keep it. What's on our side is encrypted and unreadable to us.
CONNECT
Crypto needs no key. For stocks, bring your broker’s key — it never leaves your machine.
Your deck exports to a file you own. Your keys were never ours. If you stop using ScoutDex, nothing of yours stays behind.
Where do my API keys live?
In your computer's own credential store. It is never sent to us.
Can you see what I'm watching?
No. Your deck is stored encrypted, and the key to it is not ours.
Where do the prices come from?
From the exchange you connected, straight to your machine.
Can I take my decks with me?
Yes, at any time. Every deck writes out to a file you keep.
Do I need a brokerage account?
For crypto, no. For equities, an API key from your broker.
What happens to my decks if I stop paying?
They keep running on the version you have. Only updates stop.
Do alerts arrive when the app is closed?
No. Your own machine decides, so it has to be running.