Decks · Indicators
An indicator deck puts indexes, index futures, volatility, bond yields, the dollar, gold and oil on a line of their own. Values come through your broker connection or a paid market data service such as Finnhub or Twelve Data.
Build this one in the app. The browser can’t reach the connection stored on your computer, so this deck is built in the ScoutDex app. Download →
STEP 1 — BUILD AN INDICATOR COMPONENT
An indicator component is a list of items. You build it once and can add it to any deck. Items your connection doesn’t cover stay dimmed, not hidden, so you can see what another connection would add.
The level of a market as a whole, such as the S&P 500, the Nasdaq Composite or the KOSPI.
S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures. They trade before and after the cash market opens, and light up only when your connection covers futures.
How much movement the market expects. Some connections carry the index itself, others only a future on it. The studio labels which one you get.
Government bond yields such as the US 2-year and 10-year, and bond futures.
The dollar index and currency pairs such as USD/KRW. They light up only when your connection covers FX.
Through the futures or funds your connection carries.
Any code your connection carries that isn’t on our list, such as the Russell 2000, a sector index or a commodity future.
STEP 2 — ADD IT TO A DECK
A deck holds the component itself. Change the component and every deck that uses it changes with it.
A deck is the union of its components. An item that sits in two components shows once.
An indicator deck has an Alerts tab, where you set a level on any item in the deck.
STEP 3 — PUT THE DECK ON A LINE
A ticker has three lines, one deck per line. Each line is titled with its deck’s name and market status. The other lines can carry your symbols and news.
RELEASES
These are events, not prices. They land at one moment as a figure against a forecast, which doesn’t fit a line that keeps moving.
BLS and BEA publish their releases as headlines. A news deck carries them on a line of their own. Deck · News →
WORTH KNOWING
Index futures keep trading before the open and after the close of the cash market.
Free public FX sources give one rate a day. Live quotes need a broker connection or a paid market data service.
Some brokers require their own registration, and sometimes a fee, before futures data reaches an app over the API — even for your own account. Your broker can tell you whether this applies.
SMALLER QUESTIONS
Add a paid market data service such as Finnhub or Twelve Data as a connection, at $10 a year. Items it doesn’t cover stay dimmed.
It comes with Deck, at $49 a year. If you have no broker or market data connection yet, add one, at $10 a year. The only free deck is the sample crypto deck. Pricing →
Your connection doesn’t cover them. They stay visible so you know they exist.
Indicators and stocks can’t share a line. Each line runs one deck, so the two stay readable side by side.