Charts, orders, and stops after the bell.

A trading terminal for active traders.

A Day trading layout: SPY, QQQ, NVDA and TSLA on one-minute candles with VWAP and its bands, the 9, 21 and 50 EMAs, the prior day's levels and the opening range, relative volume and cumulative volume delta; a Fibonacci retracement on QQQ, a trendline on TSLA, the positions' stops on their charts, the watchlist, the order ticket and the positions table.

Charts
Orders
Trade journal

US stocks and options

VIRTUAL ORDERS ▲ held by the app EXT. HOURS ▲ pre · post · overnight TRAIL ▲ $ · % · ATR PROFIT LOCK ▲ a share of the peak AUTO CANDLES ▲ follow the zoom HISTORY ▲ years, to the minute DETECTION ▲ zones · swings · trendlines DRAWING ▲ 25 tools LAYOUTS ▲ presets you can change TEMPLATES ▲ a chart set up in one pick SECTORS ▲ each against SPY FUNDAMENTALS ▲ from SEC filings JOURNAL ▲ recorded trades, in R REPLAY ▲ 0.1× – 1000× OPTIONS ▲ 22-strategy builder KILL SWITCH ▲ stops new entries

Outside regular hours

Stops for the hours your broker doesn't cover

Virtual orders are held in TapeVision rather than at your broker. When the price reaches your level, TapeVision sends a plain closing order, as a limit priced through the market where the broker accepts only limit orders. It works while TapeVision runs on a computer that is awake and online, with a live price for the session.

NVDA on five-minute candles after the close: price ran up in the after-hours session, and a trailing stop held by the app follows it at 228.20, $1.20 under the high of 229.40. — 17:38 New York time: a trailing stop held by the app follows NVDA's after-hours run, $1.20 under its high.

Stops, trailing stops and One Cancels Other in pre-market, after-hours and overnight, by $, % or a multiple of ATR.
Take profit in steps: several targets and several stops on one entry, each selling a specified share.

Adaptive trailing

Breakeven at 1R, a tighter trail at 2R and 3R, and a profit lock that keeps a set share of the peak. It only ever tightens.

Trading

Entry, target and stop in one view

Set an entry, target and stop, then see each price and the potential profit or loss on the chart. Drag a line to update the ticket.

A GOOGL chart with a draft buy limit at 342.40, a draft target at 348.00 marked +672.00 and a draft stop at 339.60 marked −336.00, next to the order ticket filled in with the same bracket. — A draft bracket on GOOGL, drawn before anything is sent.

Brackets, One Cancels Other orders and trailing stops, set in dollars, percentages or ATR multiples.
One-key trading: place protected orders, close or reduce positions, move stops to breakeven, or adjust risk. Every key can be rebound.
Risk-based sizing calculates quantity from a chosen share of equity and the stop, subject to buying power.
Order presets: save a configured ticket, then apply it to a new order.
Order book and time and sales appear beside the ticket.

Protection

Adaptive trailing stop

An adaptive trail begins at the selected distance. It tightens at stages based on R from entry or standard deviations from VWAP, and does not loosen after a retrace.

Breakeven, profit lock and stall stages: move the stop to the entry price at 1R, set it to retain part of the peak price move from 2R if filled at that level, or tighten the trail after a chosen period without a new high.
Stage markers on the chart: hover to see the stop level for each stage, then hide or restore them.
Position-aware protection: protection adjusts to filled quantity and partial closes. The app coordinates multiple stops using the position and order information it receives; delays or faults can still cause duplicate orders.
Backup prices and outage alerts: when a data source fails, the app can request prices from a configured backup, subject to the backup source’s availability and coverage. The app shows the outage and can send an alert to Discord, Telegram, ntfy or Pushover.

An NVDA chart with a trailing stop at 225.60 and its stages drawn around the price: breakeven at 1R, keep 50 percent at 2R, keep 65 percent at 3R. — An adaptive trail on NVDA: the stages it has reached, and the one still ahead.

Journal

An automatic trade journal

The journal records order, fill and stop-change events received by the app. It groups them into trades, showing the entry, original stop, stop changes and exit in R and dollars.

Days, Trade and Statistics: view results by day, inspect a trade on the chart, and filter statistics by symbol, playbook, time of day and holding time.
Add notes, tags, playbooks and grades to each trade, plus a note for each day.
Fills from periods when the app was closed can be added from available broker history; coverage depends on the broker and connection.
Export filtered journal data as CSV or JSON, or export the raw journal as JSON Lines.

The journal's Trade view: a HOOD trade on its one-minute chart with the entry, the stop it came with and how that stop moved — breakeven, then trailed — beside the list of trades and the trade's entry, stop and exit tables. — A completed paper trade reconstructed from fills: entry, stop changes and exit.

Options

Option chains and multi-leg orders

Compare calls and puts on the chain, build a strategy and inspect the payoff before placing an order.

Option chain: compare prices, volume, open interest, delta and implied volatility.
Strategy builder: explore spreads and other structures with payoff diagrams.
Multi-leg orders: review the net price, breakevens and estimated margin before sending.

Explore options →

The options strategy builder showing spreads and payoff diagrams. — Compare payoff diagrams for option strategies.

Market information

Unusual moves relative to each symbol’s history

The unusual-move watch compares each price move with that symbol’s moves at the same time of day. A move in a quiet stock can rank as more unusual than the same move in a volatile stock.

Movers appear in the panel or as notifications. Related leveraged and inverse funds are grouped to reduce duplicate alerts.
News for watchlist symbols, tagged by event and sentiment, with an in-app reader.
Calendar for earnings, dividends, splits and macro releases affecting watchlist symbols and positions, with event alerts.
Prompt builder: inserts current figures for a selected symbol into a prompt, ready to copy to an AI assistant. TapeVision does not call AI services.

A Micron chart with a toast saying Micron is up 2.01 percent, at the 98th percentile of its own moves for that time of day, and the movers panel listing the morning's unusual moves. — A 98th-percentile move in Micron as it happens, and the morning's movers.

Alerts and conditional orders

Alerts and orders that wait for several conditions

An alert or an order can wait for more than one thing at once. Conditions are combined with ALL or ANY, and a group can sit inside another group. Alerts and orders use the same builder.

Alerts on price, RSI on any candle size, distance from VWAP, rate of change, CVD divergence and unusual moves. The one in the picture fires when SOXL is two deviations from VWAP and the 15-minute RSI is above 70 or below 30. The message names the condition that fired, and can go to a phone or a chat.
Orders that wait: a market or limit order is held until its conditions are met, then sent as if the button had just been pressed. The order in the picture buys 100 GOOGL at 344.20 once the price is at 344.50 or above and it is past 09:45 New York time, and is called off below 341 or at 15:30. It is watched while TapeVision is running.
Stops that switch on or off: the same conditions can enable or disable a virtual stop.

The alert form on SOXL with VWAP two deviations out AND (15-minute RSI above 70 OR below 30), beside the order ticket's condition editor: a limit buy that is sent when the price is at 344.50 or above and it is past 09:45, and cancelled when the price is at 341 or below or it is 15:30.

Charts

From ten years to ten minutes, in one zoom

Turn on automatic intervals and candle sizes change as you zoom. Zoom out to move from minute candles to five-minute, hourly, daily and weekly candles; zoom in to return to smaller intervals.

The whole history, at every candle size. Zoom into any afternoon years back and the chart loads that afternoon's minute candles, as far back as your data source goes.
Synced charts. Sync charts to scroll, zoom and change candle interval together. Give charts the same link color to keep them on the same symbol.
Bar replay from available historical data, at 0.1× to 1000×, with paper trading while it plays. One-second detail depends on data coverage.

A · 1m

Zoom

Illustration using simulated prices. Drag the slider or scroll over the chart to change the candle interval.

Automatic detection on a chart: swing highs and lows named HH, HL, LH and LL, and the breaks of structure marked BOS and CHoCH. — **Automatic detection**Support and resistance zones, market structure, trendlines, ranges and volume levels, found in the candles as they close. A reading of the chart, not a forecast.

A chart drawn on: a Fibonacci retracement, a trendline along the lows, a ray at the low, a box with a note, and a long position planned with its stop and target. — **Drawing tools, and alerts on lines**Trendlines, channels, Fibonacci and Gann tools, Elliott waves, shapes, notes and position planners, plus an alert on any line that follows its slope.

A chart with RSI, MACD and Stochastic panes below the candles. — **Indicators and chart types**From VWAP and its bands to Ichimoku and TTM Squeeze, in panes you resize, reorder and keep as templates, on candles, Heikin Ashi, Renko, Kagi and more.

Explore chart types and indicators →

Comes set up

Layouts and chart templates

A new install includes layouts for day trading, price action, sectors and investing, plus watchlists and order and alert presets. Change any layout, save your own, or clear them all and restore them later.

Sectors: every sector against the market

Eleven sector funds in a four-by-three grid, each compared with SPY from the first day shown. A sector above the line has outperformed SPY since then; below, it has underperformed.

Ordered from the most economically sensitive sectors to the least, row by row.
Compare and ratio: add comparison symbols to a chart, or plot the ratio between two symbols.

The Sectors layout: twelve daily charts, SPY and the eleven sector funds, each sector with SPY drawn over it as a comparison line and a 50-period moving average. — Sectors: SPY and the eleven sector funds, each compared with SPY.

Investing: company figures on the chart

This example shows Apple and Microsoft on weekly charts with reported figures: valuation relative to each company’s historical range, growth and margins.

Each chart has a P/E valuation band over the candles and panes for earnings per share and revenue, the P/E ratio, margins and growth.
Key statistics appear below each symbol, with earnings, dividends and insider purchases marked on the chart.
Company data for US companies comes from SEC filings. The Valuation page includes financial statements, ratios, a reverse DCF and a market screen.

The Investing layout: AAPL and MSFT on weekly candles with their P/E valuation bands, key statistics, earnings and dividend markers, insider buys, and panes for EPS and revenue, P/E, margins and growth. — Investing: AAPL and MSFT.

Market: indexes and Treasury trends

Daily charts for US large caps, small caps, the Nasdaq 100 and long Treasuries. Each shows trend strength.

Supertrend, 21-, 50- and 200-period EMAs, and a regression channel are shown on each chart.
ADX shows trend strength; Aroon shows how recently price made a high or low.
The Market watchlist tracks the main indexes, largest companies, gold and Treasuries.

The Market layout: SPY, QQQ, IWM and TLT on daily candles with Supertrend, three EMAs and a regression channel, and ADX and Aroon panes below each. — Market: SPY, QQQ, IWM and TLT on daily candles.

Cross-asset: major markets in one view

Nine charts cover US large and small caps, developed and emerging markets, long Treasuries, high-yield bonds, the dollar, gold and oil. Compare how major asset classes move together.

The Overview template adds 21-, 50- and 200-period EMAs, Supertrend and one RSI pane to each chart.
Market weather in the status bar: a risk-on, neutral or risk-off reading based on seven cross-asset measures.

The Cross-asset layout: nine daily charts — SPY, IWM, EFA, EEM, TLT, HYG, UUP, GLD and USO — each with three EMAs, Supertrend and an RSI pane. — Cross-asset: stocks, bonds, the dollar, gold and oil.

Semiconductors: the chip industry

Hourly charts for the sector ETF, chip designers, contract manufacturers, equipment makers and memory makers. Open positions and stops stay visible on the charts.

Choose a grid with one to nine charts, or create a custom grid of up to 6 × 4 charts with draggable borders.
Link groups: charts with the same link color share a symbol. Sync charts controls shared scrolling and zooming.

The Semiconductors layout: nine hourly charts — SMH, NVDA, AVGO, AMD, TSM, ASML, MU, QCOM and INTC — with EMAs, Supertrend and RSI, and the paper account's stops drawn on NVDA, AMD and MU. — Semiconductors on hourly candles.

Day trading: four liquid names

SPY, QQQ, NVDA and TSLA on minute candles, including pre-market trading. VWAP shows the session’s average price; the volume profile shows where volume traded; cumulative volume delta shows buying and selling pressure.

VWAP with one- and two-standard-deviation bands, plus 9-, 21- and 50-period EMAs.
Key levels: the prior day’s high, low and close; the pre-market and opening ranges; and a session volume profile.
Relative volume and cumulative volume delta appear in panes below the chart.
Stops and targets appear on the chart for each open position. Drawings appear on charts for the symbols they were drawn on.

The Day trading layout: SPY, QQQ, NVDA and TSLA on one-minute candles with VWAP bands, EMAs, key levels, volume profiles, relative volume and cumulative volume delta, beside the watchlist and the order ticket. — Day trading: SPY, QQQ, NVDA and TSLA at 11:42 New York time.

Price action: the same four names

SPY, QQQ, NVDA and TSLA on hourly charts. As candles close, the app marks support and resistance zones, swing direction and trendlines.

Support and resistance zones, labelled with the number of times price turned at each level.
Market structure: swings named HH, HL, LH and LL, and the closes that break them.
Automatic trendlines through three or more swings, with channels, triangles and wedges.

The Price action layout: SPY, QQQ, NVDA and TSLA on hourly candles with support and resistance zones, market structure labels and automatic trendlines. — Price action: SPY, QQQ, NVDA and TSLA on hourly candles.

Chart templates: saved chart setups

A chart template saves indicators, chart type and price-scale settings. Select one to apply the same setup to a chart, whatever was shown before. Save any chart as a template; TapeVision includes templates for Intraday, Swing, Ichimoku, Renko, Growth, Value and income. Templates can be applied to one chart or to every chart on screen.

Swing on AMD: the 20, 50 and 200 SMAs, a volume profile, RSI and MACD, and earnings either side.
Heikin Ashi on MU: smoothed candles, the parabolic SAR, three EMAs and ADX.
Volatility squeeze on AVGO: Bollinger Bands inside Keltner Channels, the squeeze pane and historical volatility.
Ichimoku on META, with an RSI pane.

Four charts, each with a different template: AMD in Swing, MU in Heikin Ashi, AVGO in Volatility squeeze and META in Ichimoku. — Four templates on one screen: Swing, Heikin Ashi, Volatility squeeze and Ichimoku.

Big tech, in the light theme

Eight charts show SPY and seven large technology companies with the Overview template. Choose a light, dark or system theme, then adjust chart colors in the Workspace.

The Overview template adds 21-, 50- and 200-period EMAs, Supertrend, volume and RSI to each chart.
A watchlist, open positions, order lines and alerts sit beside the chart grid.
Bar replay of any past session from one-second data, at 0.1× to 1000×.

The Big tech layout in the light theme: eight daily charts — SPY, AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, AMZN, GOOGL, META and TSLA — with EMAs, Supertrend and RSI. — Big tech in the light theme.

More screens

Account and portfolio

Select a screenshot to enlarge it.

Account performance and balances

View equity, daily and open P&L, statistics, cash movements, a performance curve and a P&L calendar for an account, virtual sub-account, or combined accounts in one currency.

Choose realized or total P&L, and time- or money-weighted returns.
Deposits are excluded from performance. The page separately identifies broker equity not explained by recorded fills.
Virtual sub-accounts, called books in the app, divide one broker account into separate budgets and statistics. The broker still sees one account. How they work →

The account page of a paper account: equity, day P&L and realized P&L tiles, three months of statistics, cash movements, a performance curve and a September P&L calendar. — Three months of sample trades in a paper account.

Portfolio

View daily and open P&L for each position and for the portfolio, position weights, company data and an allocation map colored by the day’s move, across currencies.

Margin page: margin used by each position and the account’s margin cushion.
Kill switch: stop new or larger positions when a daily-loss, drawdown or losing-streak limit is reached. Orders that close positions still work.

The portfolio page: equity, day P&L, unrealized P&L, cash and invested tiles, a positions table with day P&L and weights, and an allocation map. — Six sample positions and the allocation across them.

Who it is for

Active traders of US stocks and options

Trade US stocks and ETFs through Alpaca, Trading 212, Interactive Brokers, Webull Australia or the built-in paper broker. Options are available through supported brokers.

Trading before and after the regular session

Use Alpaca before the open or after the close, with a data source that provides live prices during those sessions.

Extended-hours exits for Trading 212

Trade US shares through Trading 212, with trailing stops, One Cancels Other orders and brackets.

Tools across connected accounts

Use the journal, kill switch, one-key trading and chart layouts with connected broker accounts.

Local

Runs on your computer

TapeVision runs as one desktop app, including virtual-order monitoring. Your broker keys are stored encrypted on your computer, and orders go from the app straight to your broker.

Tray: closing the window keeps TapeVision running. Quitting asks for confirmation and lists the orders it will no longer monitor.
The app checks for updates and separately sends a daily version report with a random installation identifier. Usage data and crash reporting are optional; problem reports and feedback are sent only when submitted. The download page lists each item.
Coming next: a server edition, the same app on a machine that never sleeps, opened from your phone.

No TapeVision trading server

Broker keys and the journal are stored on the computer. TapeVision sends orders directly to the connected broker. Reports, screenshots and configured notifications can share selected information.

TapeVision on a phone: an NVDA chart with its trailing-stop stages, positions as cards and a tab bar. — Coming with the server edition: the app on your phone, while the server watches your orders.

Trades at

Alpacalive and paper
Trading 212live and paper
Interactive BrokersUS equities, via IB Gateway
Webull Australialive
Paper brokerbuilt in, no account needed

The beta

Start trading on paper

Download TapeVision for free, then set up a free Alpaca paper account in the app for live prices.

1
Download
Download an installer for Windows, a zip for Apple-silicon Macs or an AppImage for Linux.
2
Install
Windows and macOS may ask whether to open an app from a new developer. The install notes explain the available options.
3
Connect prices
Set up a free Alpaca paper account in three steps from inside the app.
4
Trade on paper
The built-in paper broker uses live prices and does not send orders to a broker.

Download Install notes

Questions

Before downloading

What does it cost?

TapeVision is free to download and use, with no payment details required. Paid plans with additional features are planned; prices are not set yet.

A beta version's default expiry for opening new positions is 90 days after it was built. The beta may end earlier, including for recently downloaded versions. Continued availability and a replacement version are not guaranteed. Beta terms apply.

What happens when my computer sleeps?

Orders held by the broker continue while the computer sleeps. Virtual orders pause, and the app shows how long they were unwatched when it resumes.

Closing the window keeps TapeVision running in the tray and monitoring orders. Coming next is a server edition, for a machine that never sleeps and opened from your phone.

Where do the prices come from?

Prices come from connected accounts. Set up a free Alpaca paper account in the app to get started. Its free data is live during regular hours; for pre-market and after-hours prices, connect a source that is live in those sessions.

Several sources can work together, a primary and a backup, and a banner says when it has switched. Trading 212 can use prices from a connected Alpaca, Interactive Brokers or Webull account.

Which brokers does it work with?

TapeVision supports live and paper accounts from Alpaca, Trading 212 and Interactive Brokers, plus live Webull Australia accounts. Interactive Brokers connects through IB Gateway. A built-in paper broker needs no account. Compare brokers and extended-hours orders →

Start with paper trading to learn the app. Supported live accounts are permitted during the beta; live orders use real money, and software faults can cause financial loss. Faults can also cause unintended orders to be sent, including orders the user did not request. Beta terms apply.

Does it trade on its own?

TapeVision is designed to send orders you place or configure. Faults can also cause unintended orders to be sent, including orders the user did not request. You choose what to trade, when and how much, including the settings of automated rules. Calculations and alerts do not determine whether a trade is suitable for your circumstances.

What can the charts do?

Charts support types from candles to point and figure, indicators from VWAP to company figures, drawing tools, and automatic detection of zones, swings and trendlines. Use up to 24 charts at once, synced or independent, with chart templates and layouts.

What leaves my computer?

Orders go directly to the connected broker, and market-data requests go to the connected sources. Configured notifications, reports, screenshots and information copied into outside services can share selected information. TapeVision checks for updates and separately sends a daily version report with a random installation identifier, app version, release channel, build type and computer language. This helps Tapevision understand which versions remain in use, plan updates and decide which translations to provide. The version report contains no trading activity or brokerage-account details.

Crash reports and weekly usage data are sent only if you allow them; usage data uses a separate random identifier. Problem reports and feedback are sent only when you submit them. The download page describes these information flows, and the Privacy notice explains retention.

Which computers can run it?

TapeVision runs on 64-bit Windows 10 and 11, Apple-silicon Macs (M1 and later), and x86-64 Linux through an AppImage.

Does it do options?

Option chains, single- and multi-leg orders, payoff diagrams, rolls and a list of covered calls for your shares. Options trade during regular hours.

Read the tape.
Run the trade.

The built-in paper broker fills orders against live prices and needs no broker account. To get started, the app can help you set up a free Alpaca paper account in three steps.

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