The Trade Desk

The Heatmap

Each row is a market and each column is a moment in time. Color encodes the value of the active signal for that market and candle. With several signals lit, each cell is their combined score on the same −100…+100 scale — balanced for how many signals are running, so signals agreeing outrank any one alone, and a crowded desk still separates its truly extreme reads from the merely strong. Each signal can also carry a weight on the desk (×¼ up to ×2, from the gear on its row): a ×2 signal presses twice as hard on the combined score as a ×1 peer, weights are relative (halving all of them changes nothing), and the desk’s AI trader reads the same weighted board you do. Rows are ranked by the active signal by default — the strongest longs ride the top, the strongest shorts sit at the bottom, and quiet markets settle in the middle. Switch the sort, or star a row to pin the pairs you always want on top. The separate Alerts/Pinned panel beside the chart has been removed. To look further back, click and drag sideways to pan through history: the heatmap, the chart above it, the indicator strip under the chart, and the regime band all share one timeline, so grabbing any of them scrolls them all through time together. A bar a signal cannot score — relative strength on BTC itself, a window still warming up — stays grey in its row under the chart, and the value beside the row reads n/a, never a quiet 0. The row says why beside its name — “not applicable on BTC, the market it measures against” at rest, and the reason for the bar under your cursor when you hover one it could not score.

Timeframes — Peek Before You Commit

The timeframe control rides the chart itself: six chips — 1m to 1d — grouped as one control on its own row just beneath the ticker. Hover a chip to PEEK that timeframe: the chart, your levels and markers, and the indicator strip under the chart all show that timeframe while you hold. The heatmap and the regime band stay on the timeframe you are committed to and dim while you look, so nothing on the board is ever read as the timeframe you are peeking. Release (or press Esc) and the dim lifts — you are back exactly where you were, and nothing re-sorted. Click a chip to switch the whole desk: the board and the regime band move to the new timeframe too, and rows re-rank once. When that timeframe still has to load, what you were looking at stays on screen, dimmed, with the new chip dashed until it lands, then the chart, the board and the counts all change together.

• Your drawn levels and price alerts carry across timeframes unchanged — they are anchored to price. Your fills and signal markers re-anchor to the new bars automatically.
• Press [ or ] to step the timeframe down or up from the keyboard.
• Trading on 5m but want the bigger picture? Hold 1h or 1d for a beat, read the structure on the chart, release. The board never flinches.
• A peek pulls one market’s candles, so it lands in about half a second even on a slow connection. A signal scored against the whole field rather than a market’s own history can’t be read from that alone, so its strip row goes blank for the peek instead of showing you a number that doesn’t mean anything.
• On a phone, tap the timeframe chip under the app bar to change it — peeking is a pointer gesture.

The Board Controls

• On the desktop every board control sits in one row across the top of the board, directly above the regime band — what shapes the board, then the read, then the board. It shows values, not labels: the board face (Map, Grid or Screen) first, then how many markets are firing right now. The candle timeframe rides the chart itself — see Timeframes above.
• Board refresh and sort are one tap away: both ride the column as their own controls (tap either to change it), on the desktop and on your phone alike. Sort Longs first (the default: strongest longs on top, shorts at the bottom), Shorts first (the inverse, for hunting the down-side), Strongest first (the strongest reads of either side together), Matches first (firing pairs first), or by 24h volume.
• Every filter is there, always — market scope, the tradable-size floor, the minimum score, and row grouping each ride as their own chip showing what it is currently set to, so reading the column top to bottom (or the phone bar left to right) tells you the whole shape of the board without opening anything. A chip you have not touched sits quiet; one that is actively filtering lights up, so you can always see at a glance what is being held back. The minimum score sets the conviction a cell must clear to count as a hit, and you choose what happens below it: Dim fades the weaker cells in place, or Hide drops any row that is not hitting so the board and the Screen collapse to just the live setups (your pinned pairs always stay).
• On a phone the same controls get their own full-width row directly under the app bar, in the same order. Tap any of them and the Board sheet opens on that setting, with every other board setting listed beneath it showing its current value — the whole shape of the board on one screen. A choice applies straight away and the board keeps updating behind the sheet; tap another row to change that one instead.
• The gear holds your own settings — Account, Practice, Order ticket, Wallets, Notifications, API & integrations — then Trades & PnL, Reference docs and What’s new, then Sign out. On a phone it is the same list as on the desktop, and nothing about the board lives there.
• The color scale lives with the firing count — tap it to see what the board’s colors mean on the current signal.
• Search: on the desktop the ticker filter sits with the board controls in the row directly above the board — press / to focus and clear it, then type to jump to a symbol (/ always resets the field, it never types a slash). On a phone it moves up into the app bar, where search belongs.
• Pin: keep the pairs you trade at the top of the grid regardless of rank.

Scope The Board To What You Care About

Scope decides which markets are on the board at all. It never changes signal scoring or the order survivors come back in — it only narrows the field. Open the scope chip in the board controls and you get three ways to narrow, each showing how many markets it holds.

• Class: the venue’s own split — Crypto, Equities, Commodities, FX, Indices.
• Lists: any of your saved watchlists. Pick one to work only that list, or several to work them together — and it is the same control on the desktop and on your phone.
• Tags: what a market actually is. Sectors — memes, L1s, DeFi, semis, neoclouds, power, metals, FX majors — and themes that cut across the classes, so picking AI puts TAO and NVDA on one board. New listings are researched and tagged within the hour; anything still unplaced sits in Unlabeled at the end, visible rather than quietly filed somewhere wrong.
• Pick within one section and you get all of them; pick across sections and they narrow each other — Crypto plus AI is the AI names in crypto, not the equities. A count under the panel always tells you how many markets survived, so the board is never mysteriously empty.
• All markets clears the whole lens in one click, and the chip on the bar names what you picked — “AI basket”, “memes”, or the number of filters when there are several.
• The lens is part of the desk — class, lists and tags alike. Scope one desk to memes and another to a watchlist, and each opens with its own; your other devices open each desk the same way.
• vyx, your AI chat, reads the board through the same lens, so its scans only ever cover the markets your board shows, and it can set the lens for you: ask for “just memes”, “only my Majors list”, or “show all markets” and the board changes in place — all markets clears classes, tags and lists together, just like the button.
• Everything that watches a desk while you are away reads the same lens too: its match alerts, its desk analyst and its AI trader only ever consider the markets the board shows. Scope a desk to memes or to a watchlist and its alerts ping only for those markets. On a desk an AI trader runs, a change to the lens waits for Apply, like any other change to what it trades.

Group The Board Into Sections

Grouping breaks the single board into collapsible sections without ever splitting it into separate boards — the active signal still ranks every market inside each section. Choose how to group from the grouping chip in the board controls — on the desktop and on your phone alike.

• By Scope: section the board by asset class — Crypto, Equities, Commodities, FX, Indices — each with its own header and count.
• By Group: section the board by what a market actually is. First its cohort — Majors, L1, L2, DeFi, Meme, Crypto infra, Privacy, Payments, Semis, AI build-out, Big tech, Industrials, Financials, Macro, Commodities, FX — every market in exactly one. These are the groups a trader actually rotates between, so the smaller peer groups sit inside them: a GPU cloud, an optical-interconnect maker and a power producer all read as AI build-out, because the datacenter is bought as one trade. Hyperliquid lists new markets constantly, so vyx researches each new ticker within the hour of it appearing and files it with its peers; anything it cannot place honestly is gathered in a visible “Unlabeled” section rather than quietly filed somewhere wrong. Then its themes: AI, Solana, Perp DEX and Crypto-linked cut across the cohorts, so the AI trade shows you TAO and NVDA in one section and a crypto-linked equity sits under both Financials and Crypto-linked. A theme only gets its own section while enough of its markets are on your board — below that it would just be a copy of rows you can already see, so it stays off.
• A group header carries the group’s own read: the median score of its members and how many of them are firing — “3/12 −40” says the cohort is offered and three names are actually driving it. A group with nothing to say shows only its member count. Collapse a group and its header keeps reading, so you can fold the board down to a dozen cohorts and still see where the pressure is.
• By Watchlist: float your saved lists to the top, one section each, with everything else dropped into a trailing “Other” section you can hide for a lists-only view. Give each list a color that tints its section header, and your lists sync across your devices.
• Choose which sections you want. Under the grouping chip every section this board would draw is listed as a chip with how many markets it currently holds — Semis 16, AI 12, your watchlist 9 — so you can keep just the cohorts you trade. Picking sections never takes a market off the board: whatever no chosen section holds drops to the trailing “Other” section at the bottom, and switching that off gives you the strict, chosen-sections-only view. Leave every chip lit — or press All sections — and the board bands the way it always has. To take markets off the board entirely, that is the market scope chip beside it.
• Tap any section header to collapse or expand it. Your grouping and the sections you chose are part of the desk, so a saved desk opens on the cohorts you set it up with; which sections are folded follows your account, so the phone shows the same folds you left on the desktop.
• It works exactly the same on your phone: pick the grouping from the same chip on the board control bar, and the focus lens scrubs straight through the sections — headers and all — while a tap on a section header folds it. Mobile is full parity, not a lite version.

Three Views

Switch between the heatmap Map and the Screen with the toggle at the left of the board’s settings row, directly above the board; the Screen’s History tab lists past matches. On a phone, a bottom tab bar carries every view — the Screen’s History tab is where past matches live — and the Map and the Table are navigated the same way: scroll the board and whichever pair sits under the focus marker drives the chart on top, live; drag the side rail to fly through the whole list. When the board re-sorts itself — a market scoring onto the top, a new sort or grouping — the marker moves with the market you are charting, so the board and the chart never name different pairs. Tapping a row does nothing while the board scrolls, so a stray touch never throws anything over the board. When every row fits on screen — a ticker search that leaves two, say — there is nothing to scroll: the rail steps aside and tapping a row moves the marker to it.

• Map: the full heatmap, for scanning the market at a glance. Pinch it to zoom the timeline, just like the chart — on a phone or a trackpad.
• Screen: every market your board is matching now, and the ones that matched recently and left — each with its own match history, how long it has held, and the move since. The same Total the heatmap paints, as a table with columns you choose. See Screens.
• On a phone the Screen’s rows are compact — so more pairs read at once — and scroll under the same focus marker as the heatmap; tapping a row moves the marker to it.
• Tape: a live feed of pairs as they newly hit the signal — freshness first.

Where The Chart Sits

The chart has two positions, and the Chart button beside the Map/Grid/Screen toggle switches between them — it names where the chart is now, and pressing it moves the chart to the other place. In the trade column it sits at the top, above Info and Trade alike, handing its half of the screen back to the board, which then runs floor to ceiling and shows roughly three times as many markets at once. Above the board it shares one timeline with it, so every heatmap column lines up under its own candle. On a wide screen the chart starts in the trade column; on a laptop it starts above the board, where the board keeps its width. Once you move it, your desk remembers where you put it.

• Both positions are the same chart on the same timeline: pan or zoom either surface and they move together, and a cell always means the moment it did before. A pinch zooms the heatmap exactly as it zooms the chart — a trackpad pinch on a desktop, two fingers on a phone — around the bar under your fingers.
• Docked, the board is wider than the chart, so it shows more history at the same zoom. The time labels ride with the chart; hover any cell to read its moment on the board.
• Docked, the chart first opens at a height that leaves room for the order ticket beneath it. Drag the divider under it to set your own height, and the divider between the two columns to widen them. Your desk remembers the position and the sizes.
• Moving the chart into the trade column opens that column if it was folded and widens it to fit a readable chart — the Chart button is there even while the column is folded, so you never have to set it up first.
• Fold the trade column from its rail at the right edge of the desk and the chart moves back above the board, so the desk always has a chart on screen. Open the column again and the chart goes back into it.
• The trade column is a desktop layout — on a phone the chart stays on top of the board where it always was.

Inspect A Pair

Click any row to open the inspector: a price chart with a crosshair synced to the heatmap cell under your cursor. Move along the row to scrub the same moment on the chart, so you can line up an order-book event with the candle it produced.

Key Stats For The Focused Market

The row above the chart always names the market you are charting — its ticker and full name, such as NVIDIA Corporation, Bitcoin or Bitcoin Dominance; hover the name for the venue's own description of what the market tracks. On a phone, the top line of the chart names it the same way — the ticker, then the full name, and its sector and theme labels drop beneath when the line runs out. With the chart in the trade column, the same row carries its price and move; with the chart above the board, they head the column instead. The column has its own rail at the right edge of the desk, the mirror of the one on the left, with two faces. Info, where the column opens until you have worked the ticket, is everything worth knowing about the market that is not the order. Trade is your account and the order ticket, with nothing stacked above them. Press a face on the rail to show it — opening the column if it is folded — or press the one that is lit to fold the column away; the rail stays, and the column comes back on the face you used last.

• Catalyst: the latest material headline for that market and the next scheduled economic event. Rest the pointer on the headline — or tab to it — and its tick lights up on the chart, so on a busy chart you can tell which one you are reading. When a headline landed in the last day, the Info icon on the rail carries a dot, so you know there is news without leaving the ticket. Hold a position while Info is showing and the Trade icon carries one too, so an open trade is never out of sight.
• Market: 24h dollar volume and where that ranks across the venue, open interest, the funding rate and what it works out to over a year, and the size the book can take right now without slipping past the impact cap, with the spread.
• Moves with: the markets moving with this one right now — click any to jump straight there — and how much of its move is its own rather than the market’s.
• About: its tags and the venue’s own description of the instrument — useful on a tokenized equity or a basket, where the ticker alone does not tell you what you are trading. The tags are the cohort the board groups it under, its finer sector when that differs, and any theme that cuts across the classes. Press one and the board shows you that whole group; press it again, or hit Esc, and your desk comes straight back.
• Under the Send button, a market or stop-entry order shows what it is expected to cost to fill, measured from mid — half the spread plus the depth your size eats — on the size that will actually be sent. A resting limit pays no such cost, so it shows none.
• Trading hotkeys pressed while Info is showing bring the ticket back first. Nothing is staged, sized or sent until the ticket is on screen; press again to act.
• Fold the trade column and the rest of the market’s line joins its name above the chart: price, move, tags and key stats. Click it for the full dossier: what a market order of three sizes would cost right now, the depth near the touch, flow, how strongly it tracks BTC, its co-movers and its catalyst.
• Every number is measured from live data. Where something cannot be measured it is left out rather than estimated, so a stat on screen is always a real reading.

The Regime Band

Above the heatmap sits the regime band: a few rows that read the whole market rather than any one pair. Each row takes one metric — funding, open interest, spread, order-flow imbalance, whatever you write — and reduces it across every tradable market into a single number per candle, painted on the same timeline as the board below. Nothing is baked in: click a row’s name to set what it measures, how it reduces (median, mean, dispersion — how far apart the markets read — or the share of the field meeting a condition), and which slice of the market it reads — everything, a set of asset classes, one sector or theme (memes, semis, AI), one of your watchlists, what is currently on screen, or only what is firing. Two rows on two different groups is how you watch one cohort against another — or switch a scoped row to "vs the field" and it reads its cohort minus the whole board in one signed number, rotation as a single row. Once it is on, pick what the row is measured against: the whole field, or one asset class — crypto, equities, commodities, indices or FX. A crypto cohort read against crypto alone moves on crypto, not on a board that is more than half tokenized stocks during US hours, and your desk’s analyst, the AI chat and a connected AI all subtract the same baseline you chose. A scoped row does not have to live up in the band: set Place in the row editor to a sector, theme, asset class or watchlist and the row moves down onto the board itself, sitting directly under that group’s divider with the markets it reads underneath it. Choosing where it sits is also what it measures — a row under MEMES reads memes — so a group can carry its own read while the band stays for market-wide rows. A placed row lives with its group and never shows in two places: collapse the group and its row folds away with it; group the board another way, or not at all, and the row reads up in the band until you group the board its way again — hover its name there to see which grouping takes it home. A section down to a single market carries no cohort row either — a “median across the cohort” over one ticker is just that ticker — so the row rests until the cohort is a cohort again. And a row whose slice holds no tradable markets at all right now keeps its place in the band, dims, and reads “0 mkts” rather than a blank strip — it has nothing to measure, not a problem loading — and lights back up on its own when a market qualifies. Your desk’s analyst, the AI chat and a connected AI read that row the same way. And when only one of a row’s markets has a reading, its number is that one ticker’s move, so the row keeps the number but wears “1 mkt” beside its name — for you and for the AI alike. To see a group’s members, click its linked name at the bottom of the row editor. The desk temporarily shows only that group’s loaded tickers, including quiet members, with your usual board filters set aside. The group chip counts members; sampled counts markets contributing to the regime reading. Click × on the chip or press Esc to restore your previous view, focused ticker and scroll position. Switching desks clears the temporary filter. When the band is empty it offers both ways to start it — add a blank row, or describe one and let AI build it — and if every row is placed under a group, it says so.

• Each row's current reading sits at the right-hand edge, in line with the chart's own numbers above it, so the band reads left to right: name, then the painted history, then where it stands now. Put the crosshair on any bar and every reading jumps to that moment.
• Put the rows in the order you read them: grab a row by its name and drag it up or down, and the row moves with its painted history — so the band ends up telling your story, top to bottom. With a row focused you can also move it with Alt+↑ and Alt+↓.
• Your order is part of your account, so the band looks the same on every device you sign in from.
• A row with a cyan dot is reading a slice of the market rather than all of it — hover the dot to see which.

The vyx Panel and the Workbench

The vyx panel on the left of the desk (the vyx tab on a phone) is a chat with vyx about the desk you are on: ask about your board, compare markets, build a signal and test it over history. The charts and studies it makes land on the Workbench — the desk’s own tab in the left rail, and the Workbench sub-tab beside Chat on a phone — newest first, each drawn from the venue’s own candles with one line saying what it shows. A study your AI files from the chat lands there — a dot on the Workbench icon says so, without pulling you out of the conversation — and its chip in the chat opens it.

• Ask it to sort the board by an indicator — “sort all markets by 1h RSI” — and it ranks the markets against each other by that indicator, lights it on its own (it names the signals it switched off, so you can turn them back on) and sorts highest first. To keep your signals lit, ask for the indicator as a column instead.
• An AI you connect over the vyx connector files to the same Workbench, on every plan — what it looked at stays on the desk for you to scroll back through.
• The setup cards your connected AI files land there too, among its studies by time: hover one to see its plan on the chart, open it for the full call, and its analyses link narrows the Workbench to what it leaned on.
• Team accounts keep the Room, the Team tab and the Analyst tab beside it.

Your Trade Desks

A trade desk is a saved, named bundle of your whole setup — signals, regime, scope, watchlists, layout, and every board control — with one trading focus (you trade it by hand, or an AI or Mechanical trader runs it). On desktop, desks live in the top navigation: click a name to switch. Down the left edge of the desk runs a rail of icons, and one panel opens beside it: vyx (your AI chat), then the desk’s own views — the Workbench, Team or Analyst — and Signals. Press an icon to open that view; press the lit one to fold the panel away and give the board the width. Point at an icon for its name and key (` opens Compose). Signals is where you compose the desk: its signal rail, plus the editor for whichever signal you are tuning, with the board re-scoring live beside it. Switching views never moves the board, and you can drag the panel’s edge to give the editor more room. Put the tabs in the order you read them: drag a tab sideways, or focus one and press ⌘← / ⌘→ (Ctrl on Windows). All desks slides the desk library out from the right edge: every one of your desks, with search, and a bookmark on each row that decides whether that desk keeps a tab. Click a desk to open its page: for a starter desk you have not changed, a picture of it and the numbers it was graded on; for every desk, what it shows, how it is built and how to use it, the signals it is made of and the rows of its read — with Open desk, Pin, Rename, Duplicate, Share link and Delete. The arrows at the top of a desk’s page (or ← and →) step to the previous or next desk; Esc steps back to the list, then closes the library. The board stays live beside it. On a phone, desk switching stays along the bottom. Switching desks also flies the data: the board re-reads the new desk’s own timeframe, so scores and counts are always the desk’s truth. Desks on the same timeframe swap instantly; vyx pre-warms your other desks’ timeframes in the background so a cross-timeframe switch lands on warm history rather than a cold load. When a desk’s timeframe still has to load — one opened from All desks, say — what you were looking at stays on screen, dimmed, with the new chip dashed, then the chart, the board and its counts change together. Duplicate makes a copy of any desk: the copy joins your tabs with its name open to type, your live board never switches, and a copy of an automated desk always starts Manual, so duplicating can never touch a running trader. Your starter desks are yours from the start: change anything — scope, timeframe, signals — and it saves on that desk like any other, and Delete removes one you do not use. To start again from a starter as it ships today, open New desk in All desks: under Or start from a starter desk, Add puts a fresh one on your tabs beside yours (Whale Flow 2 if you already have a Whale Flow) and never touches the one you have. Above that shelf, Or start from a desk for how you trade offers four desks shaped for a trader type — US Open, Cross-Asset, Positioning & Rotation and Catalysts — each labeled for whom it is, built from the same graded signals with its own regime strip, scope and timeframe; Add puts one on your tabs as your own. Below them, Or start from a desk our research built lists the desk behind each study on vyx.app/research — the very screens the write-up graded, named by the study’s question — so you can watch a published result on today’s board; Add puts it on your tabs like any other. A link to a starter desk, from our site or anywhere else, opens your own desk made from it. When we improve a starter desk you have, a small dot appears on its tab: open the desk and a note says what got better, with Open the new version — which adds it to your tabs as a new desk beside yours and never changes the one you have — and Dismiss, which clears the dot on every device until the next improvement. A desk link can also name a market: add &symbol= and the market (vyx.app/trade?workspace=whale-flow&symbol=BTC) and the desk opens with that market on the chart, just as if you had clicked its row. A market vyx does not list is ignored, and the desk opens as usual.

• The board controls belong to the desk. Market scope (class, tags and lists), the tradable-size floor, the minimum score, how weaker rows are treated, grouping and sort are all part of the desk you are on — set a $25k floor and a minimum of 45 on one desk and they stay on that desk, while the next one opens with its own. A desk you have never adjusted opens at the standard settings rather than inheriting the last board you looked at.
• New here? Your account starts with nine starter desks as your own tabs, and opens on Market Internals. Next to it sits Early Movers — the crypto markets waking up before price runs — and then Market Sentiment: is the market risk-on or risk-off, and which cohort is leading — read from price alone. Its band reads the crypto field (how much of it is above its own trend, what the middle coin did, where it sits in its range, how much of it is beating BTC) while each cohort’s read — measured against crypto, so the stock market’s day never flips it — sits down on the board under its own divider, so the strip tells you the market is bid and the section under it tells you who is bidding. After those come Whale Flow, Whales vs the Move, Top Gainers, Liquidity Sweeps, Order-Book Imbalance and Funding & OI Radar, so you have working boards to read from the first second.
• Market Internals is Market Sentiment’s order-flow twin, and the desk a new account opens on (on an older account, open All desks and pin it). Where Market Sentiment reads what price did, Market Internals reads whether to believe it: how many coins are being net-bought, how hard, whether the coins that are rising are rising on new longs or on shorts covering, whether cascades are running above normal, whether the books are thinner than usual and whether the whales — each market’s recurring large traders — are carrying more of the volume than usual. Each cohort row under the board reads its net buying against crypto’s, so it names who is being bought, not just who went up. Each market is scored on Aggression, Leverage Appetite, Forced Flow, Book Depth and Participation, and the timeframe control moves every read at once (it opens on 15-minute bars).
• Whale Flow shows where whales keep hitting one side. A whale hit is a bar whose biggest aggressive order — its largest print or its longest run of same-side market orders — ranks in that market’s own top 10% of the last 100 bars. A market lights green when whales have bought at least twice more than they sold over the last 12 bars, red for the reverse, and stays dark otherwise, so the board shows runs of whale buying and selling instead of noise. It runs on 15-minute bars, and the strip above it reads the crypto field: whales buying vs selling across crypto, and net flow. The colour is which way the whales hit, not a forecast — open the chart to see whether price is following them or absorbing them.
• Three more desks work the same way — each lights only on its own event and leaves the rest of the board dark. Liquidity Sweeps marks stop runs: price takes out the last 24 hours’ high or low and closes back inside (red for a swept high, green for a swept low). Order-Book Imbalance marks books that stay lopsided — at least 60% bid or ask across the last four bars. Funding & OI Radar marks open-interest shocks — open interest jumping or dropping more than on 95% of the market’s own bars, coloured by which way price went — with open interest building and funding against its norm in the strip above. All three run on 15-minute bars. Top Gainers marks breakouts: an hourly close above the last 24 hours’ high lights green, below the 24-hour low lights red, brighter the bigger the hour’s move — the other half of a stop run, the break that held. Every one of these colours says what just happened, not which way price goes next.
• Early Movers shows the crypto markets waking up — where attention is arriving before price has run. A market lights when its last 15 minutes traded at least twice its usual volume and twice its usual number of trades, each against its own typical 5-minute bar, while its move over the last hour is still small for that market. Brighter the more awake it is; green or red is only how those bars leaned, not a call. The strip above reads how much of crypto is busier than usual (about half on an ordinary bar) and how many markets are waking with an up lean against a down lean. In testing, lit markets moved about 1.3× the rest of crypto over the next half hour (a small edge, right at Proof’s bar for a real one); which way they went was a coin flip, so open the chart and let price pick the side. To hear the moment one wakes, switch on Ping me when a market wakes up at the right of the board’s top row: vyx emails you and pushes to your phone when a market newly lights on the desk, tab closed or not. It is the desk’s alert, and it works on every plan, free included. On an older account, open All desks and pin it.
• Whales vs the Move is built from Whale Flow’s whale hit, on 15-minute bars: a market lights where whales are leaning against the move — buying into a market that fell over the last 12 bars (green) or selling into one that rose (red), brighter the bigger the move. It marks the standoff, not the outcome: lit markets moved about as far as the rest of the board afterwards, and no direction held up from one month to the next.
• Nine starters, on purpose. Desks that were offered before — Sweep Streaks, Volume Surges, Thin Books, Solo Movers, Wedge and the template library — are no longer offered, but nothing is taken away: one you had as a tab is still your own desk, and a link to it still works. Delete it to clear it.
• Every desk has its own page in All desks that explains, in plain language, what it shows, how it is built, and how to read it — the built-ins, a desk you duplicated, and a desk the AI built for you all keep their own words, so you never get a generic note.
• Add a desk by describing it: open All desks, choose New desk and type what you want — “coins with a funding flip and a fresh sweep, crypto only” — and the AI builds that desk, writes its page so you can see what it made, and switches you to it. Or start blank.
• Keep the tabs to what you are actually trading. Pinned desks are your working set, not everything you own — they are the tabs across the top. Open All desks and tap a row’s bookmark to drop a desk off the tabs; the desk itself is kept, listed there still, one tap from coming back. The desk you are flying always keeps a tab even when it is unpinned — it rides at the end with a dashed edge until you fly somewhere else. Deleting, which does discard a desk for good, stays a separate action behind its own confirm.
• Your session follows you across devices — not just your desks. Everything on a desk — its signals, the chart levels and markers you turn on, plot colors, sort and scope — syncs to your account, and so does where you are: the desk you have open, the symbol you are charting, the board face, the inspector tab, which sections are folded, your board-refresh tempo, and any orders you have staged but not sent. Step away from your laptop mid-read, open VYX on your phone, and you pick up exactly where you left off — same desk, same chart, same view, same staged work, zero taps. It works both ways: walk back to the desktop and it has followed your phone. Syncing never places an order — a draft only becomes an order when you send it. Only screen-specific layout — panel widths, the chart/heatmap split — stays per device, so each screen size stays comfortable.

Trade Desks On Your Phone

On mobile, your saved trade desks live as a row of pills at the very bottom of the screen, under the view tabs. The view tabs stay below the chart and board: tap vyx for AI chat, or Trader when your account has AI Trader access. Enlarging the chart or adding regime rows keeps both navigation rows in reach. The active desk is named right there, so the top of the screen stays clear for the chart and heatmap. Tap a pill to switch boards in one motion — the view you were in stays put, so you can flip through your setups without losing your place. Scroll the row sideways if you have many, and use the layers button beside the row to open the same desk library as on desktop — every desk, its page, New desk — with the active desk’s signals below the list.

• The active desk pill shows its live match count; switching is instant and never loses your scan.
• On paid plans, the Monitor pill sits first in the row with its own look: one screen with your open positions, what your traders and automations just decided, and the latest signal hits — everything worth checking across your account, wherever it happened.
• Tap anything in the Monitor to jump straight to it: a position opens your trade book on that market, a signal hit focuses that market on the board.
• You can tune a signal from your phone, not just read it. Open the layers button and pick Edit signal on one of the desk’s signal cards — the full editor opens over the board: combine mode, what to compare against, level settings, each indicator’s direction, role and weight, adding indicators by formula or with AI, and Proof. The board stays behind it and re-ranks as you change things.

What’s New

Every update to VYX is listed inside the desk. On desktop, What’s new has its own button beside the settings gear in the top bar — it opens over the whole desk, in the same wide column as the public changelog, so the clips and pictures are big enough to read; press Esc or the ✕ to go back to the desk. On a phone, tap the settings button and pick What’s new. Updates are grouped by day, newest first. Where a change is something you can see, it comes with a short looping clip or a picture of it in the app, and where it has a home — a study, a docs page, a desk — a link under it takes you there; fixes are folded under each day so the new things read first. When something has shipped since you last looked, a small dot appears on the What’s new button (the settings button on a phone) and beside the day in the list — opening What’s new clears it. The same list, with the same clips, is on the public changelog page.

• Clips play only while they are on screen. If your device asks for reduced motion, each one holds a still of the change and plays when you tap it.
• The dot is remembered per device: a new browser starts caught up rather than showing everything as new.
• VYX never interrupts you with an update pop-up. When a newer version is ready, the updates you don’t have yet appear in What’s new with an Update to get this button — it reloads the desk in about a second, on the same page, and reopens What’s new. If you don’t press it, the desk updates itself quietly the next time you switch away from its tab or leave it idle.