The ticker
It runs across the top of your screen while you work. You never open it and you never close it — and your clicks pass straight through it to whatever is underneath. Set it to Take instead, and pointing stops the line and a click opens the symbol.
01 — WHAT IT CARRIES
None of them are about the data. They are about how a moving line is read by a person who is not looking at it directly.
A line can carry crypto, equities, FX, commodities, derivatives or news — but never two of them at once. Split them and each line reads as one thing; mix them and you get a stream you have to decode symbol by symbol.
Commodities are proxies. Gold is PAXG, oil is USO —
they are not physical holdings or futures contracts, and the product says so wherever
they appear.
In Seoul red is the colour of a rise. In New York red is the colour of a fall. Put a Korean symbol and an American one on the same line and the same red means opposite things two entries apart — on something that is moving, nobody catches that.
So the colour rule belongs to the line, not to the symbol. Each line follows one rule, and if a line carries more than one market you choose which rule wins.
This is not a paid extra. Reading a rise as a fall is not a matter of taste, so every account chooses its colour rule.
One ticker holds up to three lines, and each line runs one deck. A monitor can show two tickers, one at the top and one at the bottom.
The limit is the room on a screen, and it is the same on every plan.
Top or bottom edge, which monitor, overlay or docked, speed for each line, typeface and density, and how visible it is while you aren’t looking at it. Prices stay monospaced whatever typeface you choose.
The colour rule is open on every plan. The other display settings open from Deck; the free ticker runs a fixed preset. If your plan lapses, your settings are kept and return when you renew.
02 — HOW IT SITS
Both keep the line always visible. The difference is what happens to the window behind it.
The ticker floats above whatever is open underneath it. Because it sits on top of that window rather than in place of it, your clicks pass straight through to whatever is there — so a line sitting over your editor or your browser costs you nothing but its own height.
The ticker claims its own strip of the screen in advance, the way a taskbar does. Other windows keep clear of that strip, so there is nothing underneath it to click through to.
Overlay is the default. Docked is a display setting, open from Deck.
03 — ASKED OFTEN
No, and that is deliberate twice over. They are separate decks to begin with, because crypto arrives straight from public venues and stocks need a key from your broker. And even if you own both, they stay on their own lines: the two markets do not agree on what red means, and a mixed line makes that disagreement invisible.
It cannot be clicked. Anything you aim at goes to the window underneath, so a line sitting over your editor or your browser costs you nothing but its own height.
No. Three is the most one ticker holds on any plan. For more, add a second ticker on the same monitor.