Live tick-by-tick tape
Each instrument can expose its received trades with time, price and size directly beside the primary quote.
The actual product surface
IBDesk is a read-only companion to TWS or IB Gateway. Its value is the focused tape and the auditory layer already built into the desktop product—not order entry.
Each instrument can expose its received trades with time, price and size directly beside the primary quote.
The synthetic voice announces the live price as transactions arrive. Other voice modes can express price, points or percentage depending on the way you monitor.
Configure distinct sounds for price movement, threshold crossings and exceptional transaction volume so the event is recognizable before you look.
Embedded intraday charts, volume and Base100 relative performance compare an instrument with its chosen benchmark without opening another charting workspace.
Bounded reconnect attempts, subscription rehydration, staleness signals and explicit live, frozen, delayed and delayed-frozen states keep data provenance visible.
The Avalonia desktop foundation targets Windows, macOS and Linux with a single-instance guard and a desktop-first interaction model.