Decks · Stocks
Connect an API key from your broker once, in the app. Then build components, tick them into a deck, and put the deck on a ticker line.
Build this one in the app. The browser version of the studio can’t reach the key stored on your computer, so this deck is built in the ScoutDex app. Download →
BEFORE YOU START — CONNECT
Everything on your line comes from what your broker account can see.
ScoutDex only reads prices with it and never places an order. Keys are entered only in the app, never in the browser. Where to get it →
Interactive Brokers, Korea Investment (KIS), Alpaca, Futu/moomoo and Upstox. More come in later versions.
A broker that trades Asia, Europe and the US from a single account brings all three through one key.
Many brokers sell real-time data per exchange. Without it you get delayed prices, or none.
They send live prices to one program at a time, so connecting ScoutDex can stop live prices in the broker’s own app.
STEP 1 — BUILD A COMPONENT
Each stock component has the markets it covers and one of four kinds.
If a market is missing, it isn’t in your account’s data. We don’t hide any. ETFs are included.
Holdings are the stocks you own, typed in once — we never read your positions. Picked by hand is any symbol you name.
The top N in a sector or industry, ranked by market cap, dollar volume or change. Sectors follow the eleven GICS sectors.
Up to three conditions, and a stock must meet all of them.
A rule holds up to three conditions, and a stock must meet all of them — for
example opened > 3% from yesterday and relative volume above 2×.
For either-or, make a second component and tick both into the deck.
STEP 2 — ADD IT TO A DECK
Edit a component and every deck that uses it changes with it.
A deck is every component you tick. A symbol that comes in twice is shown once.
Each deck has an Alerts tab. A symbol with an alert stays on the line even when a rule drops it.
Symbols, news and indicators. Indexes and FX rates go on an indicator deck.
STEP 3 — PUT THE DECK ON A LINE
Up to two tickers, one per monitor. Each line carries one deck.
It shows the deck name and the market status: pre-market, open, after hours or closed.
Red means a rise in Seoul and a fall in New York. Up/down colours are set per ticker, and each market can have its own line.
Position, speed, font, up/down colours, background, lines and mouse. By default the mouse passes through; with Take, pointing stops the line, the wheel scrolls it and a click opens a symbol card.
WORTH KNOWING
Before you save, the studio shows how long one pass of the line takes at your speed.
Stocks stop moving when their exchange closes, and the line title says so.
Alerts go out from the app on your computer, so the app must be running.
SMALLER QUESTIONS
One is public, one comes through your broker, so they can’t share a list. Each deck can take its own line.
Interactive Brokers, Korea Investment (KIS), Alpaca, Futu/moomoo and Upstox. The connect pages show where to get a key, country by country.
It’s entered only in the app, kept in your computer’s keychain and used locally. A second machine asks you to paste it again.
The free app runs a crypto deck we made, so you can see the ticker work first — and you have fifteen days to change your mind.