Features

What it does

A complete trading platform you run by keyboard and ear — built for blind and low-vision traders, and genuinely capable. The quickest way to understand it is to try the live demo; here is the full picture.

Reading the market

Most apps stop at being screen-reader compatible — labels you can tab through. This was built to be read by ear: the chart itself becomes sound, in three layers that work together.

  • Works with your screen reader

    Speaks exact prices, values, and alerts as you move — with NVDA, JAWS, and Narrator on Windows, VoiceOver on Mac and iOS, TalkBack on Android, and Orca on Linux. It uses the voice and speed you already set.

  • Hear the chart

    A built-in audio engine turns the market into sound: pitch follows price, tone follows momentum, and the sound pans across your headphones so you always know where you are in time — while the moments that matter, like a crossover or a support level, ring out as distinct chimes above the rest. Play any part of the chart and listen to it unfold.

  • Feel it on a braille display

    Send the chart to a Dot Pad refreshable tactile display and read candles and key levels with your fingers, alongside a braille text line. Works across the Dot Pad range — both the Dot Pad and the latest Dot Pad X.

  • Ask the chart to describe itself

    One key (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Y) and the chart tells you how it’s laid out: what the axes measure and at what scale, how many bars are in view out of how many are loaded, how many panes there are and what’s in each, and what’s currently hidden or muted. This is the thing a sighted trader gets free from a glance — previously the only way to it was navigating every pane and counting.

  • No one-way doors

    Hiding and muting individual components is a single keypress, which makes it easy to hide a handful across several indicators and then have no practical way to find them again. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K shows everything again and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U unmutes everything — each announcing how many changed, because “nothing was hidden” and “nine items shown” are different pieces of information.

Charting and analysis

  • Real-time charts, all by keyboard

    Move bar by bar, jump across the chart, zoom, and pan — entirely from the keyboard, with live data streaming in.

  • All the classic indicators, plus your own

    A large library of the indicators traders rely on, all sonified — and you can build custom ones when you need something specific. Find one by searching what it does, not just what it’s called: type “volatility” and you get ATR and Bollinger Bands, with the match count spoken as the list narrows and the indicator’s own description read back once you land on it. Newest is Value Deviation, which marks where price turned relative to value (a rolling volume profile’s point of control): turns below it mark support zones, turns above it resistance, with five tiers a side saying how far from value the zone formed — in shape, colour, and pitch.

  • Drawing tools

    Trendlines, channels, Fibonacci levels, and more — placed precisely by keyboard, with the price and time spoken back as you set each point. Text labels pin a note to a bar: the anchor goes down first, then you type the wording, and what you type becomes the drawing’s name — so navigation speaks it, the object tree lists it, and the legend shows it.

  • See where the volume is

    Volume profiles and heatmaps show, and sound out, the price levels where the most trading happened.

  • Any timeframe

    From one minute to one month, and you can work across several timeframes at once.

  • Keep a watchlist, then scan it

    Build named lists of the symbols you follow, each remembering the provider and market it came from. Then run a screen across the whole list at once: pick an indicator, a component, and a condition, stack as many filters as you like, and choose whether all, any, or enough of them by weight must be true. Every rule is restated in plain English underneath so you can check it in one read, and results come back as a table your screen reader moves through cell by cell. Symbols that couldn’t be checked are always listed, never quietly dropped — “we couldn’t fetch twelve of these” must never look like “nothing qualified”. Included with the free browser account.

  • Which levels does this market actually hold?

    Rather than assuming a level matters, this measures it: for every level near price and every standard moving average, how often price touched it, how often it held, how big the reaction was, and how long ago. A wick through that snaps straight back counts as a hold — that’s a sweep, which is the level working. Thin samples are filtered out by default and clearly labelled if you show them. Included with the free browser account.

  • Market structure, labelled as it forms

    Swing highs and lows named as higher or lower, the trend they imply, and the moment it changes — a Break of Structure when price runs past the last swing, a Change of Character when it turns the other way. On your charts by default; switch it off in Settings if you’d rather add it yourself. One honest caveat, stated the same way in the manual: a swing can only be confirmed five bars after the bar it sits on, so it tells you where you are, not where to enter.

  • The chart names its own shapes

    Twelve formations — double top and bottom, head and shoulders and its inverse, three triangles, two wedges, two flags, and the horizontal range — announced as you move through them, with the neckline, the measured target and how many bars the shape spans. You’re told which edge you walked in from, and, at the bar it resolves, what price actually did: “confirmed here: closed below the neckline at 42,100”, or “ends here without confirming — the neckline held”. Two keys step between formations, a shape nested inside a bigger one says so, and when several overlap you hear the leading one and a count — because traders disagree about these, and silently picking one would hide that.

  • Read a market forward, without hindsight

    Bar replay hides everything after a point you choose and steps forward one bar at a time, so you can practise reading a chart without knowing what happened next. Split view puts a second chart alongside the first — two timeframes, or two markets, side by side. Both are desktop features.

  • Beyond price

    Chart more than candles: macro and economic series, on-chain metrics, derivatives data like funding rates and open interest, market sentiment like fear-and-greed, weekly hedge-fund positioning (COT, straight from the CFTC), and daily short-sale volume — read and sounded out the same way as price, and most of it free with no subscription. You can even import your own CSV datasets and chart them alongside the rest, so the wider context is part of the picture, not a separate tab.

Building and automating

  • Build your own setups

    Combine indicator conditions into buy and sell setups with targets, stops, and risk limits — then hear each one trigger in real time, with the full trade plan (entry, stop, and every take-profit) spoken aloud and logged to your Journal.

  • Strategy Lab

    Test a setup against years of historical data before you risk anything — including walk-forward windows (does it hold up across separate slices of history?) and a one-key comparison of every strategy you've saved, ranked by its weaker half.

  • Alerts that reach you

    Get notified the moment your conditions hit — spoken and on screen, by email, or routed to Telegram, Discord, or Slack, with each alert able to post to its own named channel. Set a simple threshold, or build a full AND/OR/NOT rule tree.

  • Alerts keep watching when you don’t

    Close the browser and your alerts keep running. On the hosted terminal they’re evaluated on the server and delivered by email, Telegram, webhook, or browser push notification — even with nothing open. On the desktop, a system-tray icon keeps the terminal monitoring in the background and speaks each alert, with the live unread count in its name.

Trading and your accounts

  • Practise first, risk-free

    Turn on paper trading and learn the whole workflow against simulated money — driven by the real live price, so it behaves like the real thing. Market, limit, stop, bracket and trailing orders all simulate fully, and a persistent PAPER badge keeps it clear that nothing is real. Reset it whenever you want a clean slate. No money at stake until you decide.

    The simulated account is held to the rules a real one would enforce: you can’t sell what you don’t hold, an order that can no longer be afforded when it fills is refused rather than taking you negative, and a refusal says why — not just “rejected”. Leverage is still withheld until borrowing is properly modelled, rather than offered and quietly ignored.

  • Short a market, and know where it dies

    Short selling is back in paper trading, at 1× and modelled properly. Selling what you don’t own means somebody lent it to you and you owe it back at whatever it ends up costing — so the sale proceeds are locked and an equal amount of margin is locked beside them. You’re told what the short cost to open, what it’s worth now, and how far price can move against you before the position is liquidated. A short that can’t tell you where it dies isn’t a short, it’s a trap. Included with the free browser account.

  • Know what the account is worth

    The Balances tab used to show quantities — asset, free, locked — and no values at all. Now it shows what each holding is worth, the total, what share of the account each one is, and the day’s change: the numbers that answer “how am I doing”. An asset whose price can’t be fetched is marked unpriced and the total says it’s partial, because a missing price silently counted as zero is worse than no number at all.

  • Connect your broker — and every control means it

    Place orders, watch the order book, and keep an eye on your positions and balance without leaving the keyboard, across sixteen trading venues — the newest being Gemini (US-regulated spot, verified live against a real key) and Kraken Futures, which is treated as its own venue rather than a setting on Kraken, because it has its own host, its own signing, and its own API keys. Every control on the order ticket is driven by what your broker actually supports, audited against the venues rather than against their documentation: if a control is there, it works; where it isn’t, it’s absent or disabled with a reason, never present and inert.

  • Deposit addresses you can actually read

    Ask for a deposit address and it arrives in a read-only field with a copy button — so your screen reader’s review cursor and your braille display walk it character by character, with no special handling from us. It’s checksum-verified before you ever see it, and its capitalisation survives the trip, which matters because on some networks the capitals are the checksum. Kraken is the first venue behind it; it uses your own API key, so it’s a desktop feature.

  • Size and place a trade from the chart

    Three keystrokes, no dashboard. Arm a risk percentage, arrow to the bar you want your stop at, then arrow to your entry and place a limit or go to market. The position size is worked out from your account and your stop distance and spoken back to you — the sum you’d otherwise do in a position-size calculator, at the moment you need it. The stop has to come first, because until the app knows it, a percentage is a budget and not a quantity. You’re reminded you’re armed on every bar you move to.

  • Manage the position after you’re in it

    Stop loss and take profit are editable in the positions table: activate the cell, type a price, press Enter. Every value is checked before it’s sent — a long’s stop must sit below the current price and its target above — because several venues will happily accept a stop on the wrong side and trigger it the instant it’s placed. Unrealised P&L updates on the same two-second tick as the order book, and quantities name their asset, so “0.714 BTC” can’t be mistaken for the dollars beside it.

  • The markets you trade

    Crypto, stocks, forex, indices, commodities, options, and futures from the major exchanges and brokers — sixteen trading venues and seventeen further data sources today. Because data sources are a plug-in system, more can be added over time: two venues joined in the latest release alone.

  • Your accounts stay yours

    Your login details are stored securely on your own device, and anything you add runs safely apart from the rest of the system.

Make it yours

  • Sound Designer

    Change what anything sounds like — pick the tones and chimes that work for your ears, and save them as your defaults.

  • Session journal

    Everything spoken, every alert, and every setup is saved, so you can replay your whole session by keyboard or export it to read later.

  • Workspaces

    Save your entire layout — indicators, drawings, and sound settings — and switch between setups instantly.

  • Themes that cover the whole window

    The theme reaches everything — chart, toolbar, dialogs, even the dropdowns and checkboxes the browser normally draws its own way. Twelve built in: Steel Gray (the default, one continuous top-to-bottom fade), Blackout for pure black on OLED, Paper for a genuinely light theme, Classic if you’re arriving from another platform and want something your eye already knows, plus Amber CRT, Walnut, Midnight Blue, Soft Dark, Solarized, the two high-contrast themes, and Braille. Up and down colours are yours to set, and they follow you across theme changes.

  • Or build your own theme

    The theme editor opens all 33 colours the application uses — chart, chrome, dialogs, grid, and the three window bands you can blend into a single gradient. Start from any built-in theme, change what you like, save it under your own name, and export it to share with someone else.

  • Direction you can see without relying on hue

    Three existing themes paired a mid green against a mid red — different in hue, nearly identical in greyscale, so the pair stopped carrying direction under red-green colour deficiency. Worst in High Contrast Light, which exists to be legible. All three have been separated by brightness as well as hue. Every built-in theme is now checked against its own background, so choosing one is always safe; if you set a custom pair that would disappear on your background, Settings warns you next to the pickers rather than silently overriding your choice.

  • Runs everywhere you do

    Native desktop apps for Windows and macOS, plus a self-contained browser version that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux — the same one that powers the demo on this site. Native iOS and Android apps are on the way.

An AI assistant, built in

  • Plain-English insights

    Ask the built-in AI assistant for a plain-English read of what the chart is doing — trend, key levels, momentum, and a short-term outlook — and have it review your recent trades and setups. It describes the chart; it never touches your account.

  • Cloud or on your device

    Use a cloud model for the richest, vision-capable read, or run one locally so your chart data never leaves your computer. The privacy trade-off is yours to make, not ours.

  • Training & video, coming soon

    Step-by-step tutorials and video walkthroughs are on the way — here on the site and on YouTube.

Open, and built to grow

Accessible Trade Terminal is open source. The data sources and indicators are a plug-in system, so if you write code you can build your own and share them — and if you don't, your feature requests and bug reports are just as valuable. See the developer guide and SDK or browse the source on GitHub (opens in new tab).

Try it free in your browser

A free paper-trading account (opens in a new tab) gives you the charting, every indicator, drawing tools, alerts, and the sound designer in your browser — across crypto, stocks, and forex, with simulated money to learn risk-free, no install. Every other market, the data-beyond-price layer, strategy building, the AI analyst, custom scripting, and real-money trading live in the desktop app. You can also open the live demo first.

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