TapeVision features: orders, stops, options and journal

Trading

Place and manage orders at several brokers from one screen

Use one order ticket for every connected broker. Virtual orders can provide order types that a broker’s API does not.

A draft bracket on a GOOGL chart: buy limit, target and stop drawn before sending, with the order ticket beside it.

Entry, target and stop in one view

Set a limit, a target and a stop and they appear on the chart as lines, each with what it would make or lose at its price. Drag a line and the ticket’s price follows. Nothing is sent until you press the button.

The 1-Click box at the foot of the ticket: market or limit, take profit and stop loss, the quantity as a share of equity at risk, and the bracket in percent.

One-key orders sized by risk

Choose the share of equity to risk and the bracket in $, % or ATR. One key places the order with a take-profit and stop, with no confirmation step. Other keys close, reduce or move every stop to breakeven.

A right-click on a GOOGL chart: buy limit and sell stop at that price, an alert, a horizontal line and a trendline from there.

Trade straight from the chart

Right-click a level to buy or sell there, put a stop or target on the position, set an alert or draw a line. The ticket fills in. The order is sent only when placed.

Virtual orders

Stops for the hours your broker doesn’t cover

TapeVision holds virtual stops and can send a closing order when the trigger price is reached, while the app runs on an awake computer, connected to the broker and receiving live prices for the session.

NVDA after the close: an after-hours run up, a trailing stop held by the app at 228.20, and the Virtual Orders table listing it as a $1.20 trail under a high of 229.40.

Trailing stops after the close

Use app-held stops, trailing stops and One Cancels Other orders in pre-market, after-hours and overnight, including where the broker accepts only limit orders.

An adaptive trail on NVDA: the stages it has reached on the chart, and the one still ahead.

A stop that tightens in stages

Set stages by R or distance from VWAP: move the stop to the entry price, set it to retain a chosen share of the price move if filled at that level, or tighten the trail after a period without a new high. A pullback never loosens it.

The Virtual Orders table shows trailing stages, stops, targets and whether an exit waits for an entry.

Virtual orders in one table

The table shows virtual orders with trailing stages and activation conditions. Orders are sized to the filled quantity and adjusted after a partial close.

Kill switch

Kill switch for new entries

Set limits for watched accounts. When a limit is reached, the kill switch refuses orders that would open or add to a position on that account. Orders that close or reduce a position remain allowed. A gap or a bad fill can still cost more.

The kill switch in Settings: limits on the loss today, a drop from today’s high and losing trades in a row, and what a trip does.

Limits on loss, losing streaks and entries

Choose which accounts to watch and set limits on today’s loss, a drop from today’s high, losing trades in a row or entries today. When a limit is reached, the kill switch can also cancel pending entry orders or close open positions. A lock lasts until the next day, for a set time or until it is reset by hand.

The kill switch panel open over a chart, with Kill switch on in the status bar: Alpaca Paper locked until Saturday 12:00 am after the drop from today’s high reached its $1,500 limit, one order cancelled, a reset possible from 11:45 am, and Paper Broker open with its three readings.

When a limit is reached

The status bar shows the lock. The panel lists each account, the rule that triggered the lock, when it started, what was cancelled and when a reset is possible. Use the panel to trip the kill switch by hand.

Alerts and conditional orders

Alerts and orders that wait for several conditions

One builder sets both: conditions joined with ALL or ANY, and groups inside groups. The same conditions can also switch a virtual stop on or off.

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 for a limit buy: Send when the price is at 344.50 or above AND from 09:45, Cancel when the price is at 341 or below OR at 15:30.

Alerts and orders built from the same conditions

Alerts: price, RSI on any candle size, distance from VWAP, rate of change, CVD divergence and unusual moves. The one on the left 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: a market or limit order is held until its Send when conditions are met, then is sent as if placed at that moment; Cancel when cancels the order before it is sent. The one on the right buys 100 GOOGL at 344.20 once the price is at 344.50 or above after 09:45 New York time, and is called off below 341 or at 15:30. It is watched while TapeVision is running.

Brokers

Brokers and extended-hours orders

Connect Alpaca, Trading 212, Interactive Brokers or Webull Australia accounts, or use the built-in paper broker without a broker account.

Broker	TapeVision orders	The broker's API, outside regular hours
Alpaca	Stops, trailing stops, One Cancels Other and brackets held by the app	Limit orders only. A trailing stop does not trigger outside regular hours, and a bracket needs them.
Trading 212	Stops, trailing stops and One Cancels Other held by the app, using prices from Alpaca, Interactive Brokers or Webull	Market orders only. No trailing stop and no One Cancels Other in the API, and no prices.
Webull Australia	Stops and trailing stops held by the app	Limit orders only.
Interactive Brokers	Stops, trailing stops, One Cancels Other and attached exits held by the app	Stop-limit orders can be set to work outside regular hours; plain stop orders cannot.

Broker order support can change. Orders supported by the broker can also be sent directly to the broker.

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

Options

Option chains and multi-leg orders

View option chains and Greeks, place single- and multi-leg orders, compare payoff diagrams, show a strategy’s payoff on the chart and roll positions. Options trade in regular hours.

The NVDA option chain: calls and puts either side of the strike column with delta, implied volatility, bid, ask and last.

Option chain and Greeks

Compare calls and puts with open interest, volume, delta, implied volatility and probability of finishing in the money. Select a bid or ask to open an order ticket, or add contracts to one multi-leg order.

The Strategies view shows payoff diagrams for spreads, straddles, calendars and condors.

Strategy builder and payoff diagrams

Choose a market outlook to compare structures and their payoff on the live chain. The ticket shows maximum profit and loss, breakevens and estimated margin before sending one order.

The GOOGL strategy builder with both legs of a call debit spread, the second leg selected, a payoff diagram, the leg table and the order panel showing maximum profit, maximum loss and breakevens.

A strategy built leg by leg

Build a strategy one leg at a time, with an explanation of each leg. The payoff, maximum profit, maximum loss and breakevens update as legs are added. Move the strikes or change the width, then send every leg as one order.

A GOOGL daily chart with a long strangle drawn beside the price axis: red between the breakevens where it would lose, green outside them where it would profit, with strikes and breakevens marked, and the strategy builder’s payoff diagram below.

Profit and loss zones on the chart

Show a strategy’s payoff on the underlying chart: green where the strategy would make money and red where it would lose money, with strikes and breakevens marked. The overlay follows a strategy builder draft or an open grouped position and can be valued at expiry or on a chosen date. Values exclude fees and early assignment.

Charts

From ten years to ten minutes, in one zoom

Charts adapt as you zoom, with indicators from VWAP to company figures and drawing tools. See chart types and indicators on the Charts page.

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Zoom

Drag the slider or scroll over the chart to zoom. Illustration using sample prices.

Candles that follow the zoom

Turn on automatic intervals and candle sizes change as you zoom. Zoom into a past session to request smaller candles, subject to the data source’s coverage and availability.

Automatic trendlines on TSLA: a falling wedge shaded and named, with support and resistance lines.

Automatic detection

Automatic support and resistance zones, market-structure marks, trendlines, channels, wedges, consolidation ranges and volume levels. Each mark uses completed candles.

Volume profiles

Show volume profiles for the visible range, a day, session, week, month or regular hours only. Choose filled or outline profiles with value-area lines.

A GOOGL chart drawn on: a Fibonacci retracement, a trendline, a ray, a box with a note and a long position planned with its stop and target.

Drawing tools and position planners

Draw trendlines, channels, Fibonacci and Gann tools, Elliott waves, XABCD patterns, shapes and notes. Measure a move or send a position plan to the order ticket.

Bar replay on NVDA: the date, Jump, the transport and the speed above a session forming bar by bar.

Replay a past session

Replay available historical data and paper trade while real accounts stay locked. One-second detail depends on data coverage.

The Indicators menu with VWAP and the EMA stack unfolded: each line’s color, width and dash.

Indicator line styles

VWAP and its bands, moving averages, channels, Ichimoku, Supertrend, RSI, MACD, CVD with divergences and more. Each line’s color, width and dash can be set.

The chart type picker: candles, hollow candles, Heikin Ashi, bars, line, area, baseline, volume candles, Renko, line break, Kagi and point and figure.

Chart types

Candles, hollow candles, Heikin Ashi, volume candles, Renko, line break, Kagi, point and figure and more, chosen chart by chart.

Accounts and journal

Accounts, portfolio and journal

View accounts, virtual sub-accounts, portfolio results, statistics and the automatic trade journal separately or together.

The journal’s Trade view: a HOOD chart showing the entry, stop changes and exit, beside the trade list.

Trades on a chart

The journal assembles trades from recorded events, with entry, original stop, stop changes and exit where available.

The journal’s Days view: a month as a calendar, each day’s result in R and in dollars.

Month calendar, in R

View daily and weekly results in R multiples or dollars.

Statistics

Review expectancy, win rate and profit factor by sub-account, position size, playbook, time of day or trade direction.

Account page

Equity and P&L over any range, time- or money-weighted returns, and deposits and fees kept out of performance.

Portfolio

View day and unrealized P&L, portfolio weight and company data for each position, plus an allocation map.

The Account page with three accounts combined: equity, day, unrealized and realized P&L, cash and buying power, each tile listing the three accounts’ shares, then statistics, cash movements, the balance history and the P&L calendar.

Several accounts, one overview

Select two or more accounts in the Account or Portfolio page picker to see combined figures. Figures use the currency of the first account selected, and each tile shows each account’s contribution. Accounts that cannot be loaded or converted are named and left out. Orders still go to the active account.

The Portfolio page with three accounts combined: tiles listing each account’s share, and one row per symbol across the accounts, such as NVDA at 255 shares held in all three, at the blended cost.

One row per symbol across accounts

Positions in the same symbol appear in one row, with a blended cost. The tiles and allocation map show the combined portfolio, and each tile lists each account’s contribution.

Virtual sub-accounts

Keep strategies apart inside one broker account

Use virtual sub-accounts, called books, to separate budgets and results within one broker account. Positions, buying power and margin remain part of that broker account.

The Books card in Settings: Intraday at 45%, Swing at 35% and Core at 10% of one account, with symbols listed under each book and 10% left unallocated.

Shares of the account

Name each book and assign it a share of the account. A symbol belongs to one book at a time; move it to another only when no position is open. You can require a book before opening a position.

The chart screen with the Intraday sub-account selected: its budget in the status bar, and a note under the positions table that three rows are hidden by the filter and which sub-accounts they belong to.

Sizing from a sub-account’s budget

Select a book to see the budget in the status bar. Risk-based and one-key sizing use the book’s share of the account and the reported buying power. Available buying power can change before an order reaches the broker. Tables show that book’s positions and results.

The journal’s Statistics split by sub-account: the result per trade in R for Intraday, Swing and Core, with the number of trades in each.

Results per sub-account

View journal statistics, account results and portfolio positions for one book or all books together.

Market information

Watchlists, news and company figures

Build watchlists, follow unusual moves and news, see market-risk readings, and view company valuation.

A toast announcing a 98th-percentile move in Micron and the movers panel listing the morning’s unusual moves.

Unusual-move watch

Compare price moves with the same symbol’s past moves at the same time of day.

The News tab: headlines for the watchlist with event tags such as earnings, upgrade and downgrade, and the symbols they name.

News with event tags

Read watchlist news tagged by event and sentiment. Get an alert when headlines for one symbol arrive in a burst.

The Watchlist page shows symbol lists with name, last price, change, 52-week range and market cap.

A full-page watchlist

Sort the watchlist by any column and view a map of the day’s moves. For a selected symbol, Prompt Builder inserts current figures into a prompt ready to copy to an AI assistant.

Market weather

Market weather summarizes seven cross-asset measures as risk-on, neutral or risk-off.

AAPL with P/E valuation bands, past reports, dividends and key statistics.

Company figures beside the price

For US companies, see the current P/E against its historical range, SEC-filed reports, dividends and key statistics.

Margin

Margin use and available cushion

See current margin use, your available cushion and the change from intraday to overnight requirements.

The Margin page: a one-line verdict, the cushion bar, equity and the requirements now and at 20:00 New York time.

Margin at a glance

Compare intraday and overnight limits, see margin used by each position, and receive alerts before the overnight requirement applies.

On your computer

TapeVision on your computer

TapeVision runs on your computer with the broker and market-data accounts you connect.

TrayClosing the window keeps TapeVision running in the tray. Before quitting, it lists the virtual orders it will stop monitoring.
After sleepWhen the computer wakes, TapeVision shows how long virtual orders were unwatched.
Crash recoveryTapeVision restarts a crashed background process or window. If one chart fails, the others keep working.
UpdatesThe app tells you when an update is available and never installs it without your approval. On macOS, updates download as a new app file.
Keys stay on your computerBroker keys are stored encrypted on your computer, and orders go from the app straight to your broker.
Windows, macOS and LinuxTapeVision is available for Windows, Apple-silicon Macs and Linux. Windows and macOS may show an extra prompt when you open a new version.

TapeVision features