Getting Started

Sharpnel is a native desktop terminal for Windows (macOS is in development). Getting started is three steps: create an account at /register, upgrade to Pro, and launch the desktop terminal — the signed Windows installer is available to download with Pro. The free Explorer tier lets you evaluate the terminal on 15-minute delayed data first — no credit card, no time limit.

When Sharpnel boots, you see a default layout: a chart on the left, DOM on the right, news ticker along the top. That's the canvas. Everything else is a panel you drop in.

Ready to run it? Grab the desktop build from the download page.

One keystroke opens the palette. It is how every symbol change, timeframe change, and panel open happens.

Type a ticker — ES, NVDA, BTC-PERP — and the focused chart retargets. Type a timeframe — 5m, 1h, 1d — and the focused chart switches resolution. Chain them with pipes:

Or use the desk-grade shortcut: SYMBOL FUNCTION. Type NVDA GEX and the gamma exposure panel opens for Nvidia. Type ES DOM and the order book opens for ES. The full mnemonic list lives in Command Palette.

1. Tap : (or Ctrl+Shift+P) to focus the palette.
2. Type SPY and hit Enter — the chart retargets.
3. Type 15m to switch timeframe.
4. Click the chart and scroll to zoom, drag to pan. Hit Ctrl+E to center on the last bar.
5. Right-click for the chart context menu — indicators, drawings, chart type, and style all live there.

Panels dock anywhere — drag a tab, drop it on an edge, and the workspace resizes. The palette adds panels by name:

Or with the symbol-first shortcut:

Close a panel with Ctrl + W or by clicking its tab-close. Detach a panel into its own floating window by dragging its tab out of the workspace.

Once your workspace feels right — panels sized, timeframes set, indicators loaded — save it as a preset:

Layouts persist per-account. Sign in on another machine and your saved layouts load with you.

The full shortcut list — grouped by domain — is in Keyboard Reference.

Every panel ships with a built-in HELP card covering what it shows, when to reach for it, its hotkeys, and related panels. Type ? or help in the palette to open the index, or help <panel> to jump straight to one — help gex, help wmap, help footprint. Same six-section format as these web docs, available without leaving the terminal.

• On the desktop terminal? The desktop Getting Started guide walks the first run end to end — sign-in, the default workspace, and your first desk preset.
• Read the Command Palette page — every mnemonic, every verb, every pipeline trick.
• Browse Panels to see what each one shows and how to read it.
• If you write code, start Custom Studies — native C++ studies you compile to a DLL and load in the desktop terminal.
• The World Map is a Pro panel worth the upgrade on its own — every vessel, flight, storm, and fault line, mapped to the tickers that care.