futures trading terminal
Sharpnel is a Windows desktop terminal for ES, NQ and the rest of the futures complex. The chart, the full-depth DOM, the footprint, the TPO, the options workspace and the dealer gamma levels are one program, not a stack of subscriptions, and a voice called Pharos reads the desk to you one sentence at a time. It costs $125 a month, or $1,125 for the year paid once, and the levels it draws are graded in public every session.
The problem
Charting in one platform, order flow in another, dealer positioning in a browser tab, a journal in a spreadsheet. Each one is fine. Together they are a desk that costs more than the account behind it and never shows the whole picture at once.
A serious terminal is dense because it has to be. The cost is that most of it goes unread during the session, and the one thing that mattered was on the panel you were not looking at.
Every provider shows the level that held. Almost nobody shows the one that broke. Without a public record a buyer cannot tell skill from a good week.
What Sharpnel does
A Skia chart engine with volume profile, session levels, VWAP bands, swings and a study set; Footprint V2 with bid and ask volume in every candle, imbalance colouring, a delta profile and absorption detection; a full-canvas TPO panel with four period columns; and the dealer gamma levels drawn on all of them.
A full-depth ladder with the column other ladders forgot: Pull/Stack shows what is being pulled out of the book and stacked in, live, with classified prints, a reconstructed tape, multi-timeframe value and persistent VWAP lines through the whole ladder.
The chain with per-strike and aggregate Greeks, the vol surface, and nine dealer-gamma level types recomputed about every 60 seconds from live implied volatility: call wall, put wall, gamma flip, max pain, expected move, high-gamma zones, vanna, charm and the 0DTE share.
Pharos tells you what is moving your market and stays quiet the rest of the time: the third push into the call wall that has not gone through, bids outweighing offers, the London low taken out, CPI sixty seconds away. She says what the data shows, never what to do, and calls a pass when two reads disagree.
A journal with the analytics boards, a risk cockpit, workspace presets for scalping, swing and research, hotkeys for everything, and the whole desk in ten languages.
Studies for Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader 8, Quantower, ATAS, MotiveWave and Bookmap draw the same walls inside the platform you already run, with one key, and the terminal runs beside it and talks.
| The job | The usual stack | Sharpnel |
|---|---|---|
| Chart, DOM, footprint, TPO | One or two platforms | One program, one symbol bus |
| Dealer gamma levels | A separate service, a morning PDF | Recomputed about every 60 seconds, drawn on every chart |
| Options workspace | Another tool | Included |
| Reading the desk | You | A voice, one sentence at a time |
| The record | Screenshots of winners | Every wall since July, graded in public |
Competitor tools vary; the comparison describes the common shape of a separate-tools desk, not any one vendor. Broker and exchange market-data fees are yours where your platform requires them.
ES and NQ as captured at 08:30 ET, every trading day, and after the close whether they held. Free, one mail a day, unsubscribe anytime.
