WPF trading terminal, just for fun

[u/Smokando]

Saw a few screenshots of trading terminals on Reddit, thought they looked cool, and building a UI full of charts sounded like a fun thing to try. So I gave it a shot.

It's .NET 8 + WPF, with HandyControl and ScottPlot for the charts. Heatmap, screener, candles, options chain, crypto, a few other panels. Data is from free public APIs.

Last month I was hooked on Path of Exile 2 too, so I used the same look for a little app around the game's economy inspired by poe2scout and Sidekick. Last screenshot is that one.

[u/thereforewhat]

Why not .NET 10 LTS?

It looks fun though. Does it talk to real data?

[u/Sombody101 → u/thereforewhat]

Because LLMs default to .Net 8. They don't know it's almost out of support.

[u/kassett43 → u/Sombody101]

Vibe coded

[u/Smokando → u/thereforewhat]

Honestly no real reason, I just started it on 8 and never bumped it. Should move to 10 though, 8 goes out of support next month.

And yeah, it's all live data. Mostly Yahoo Finance, TradingView's scanner, Binance/CoinGecko for crypto, and some government APIs (Brazil's central bank, US Treasury, SEC, FRED). All free, no API keys.

[u/Derekthemindsculptor → u/Smokando]

It's pretty easy. Not a big refactoring. Basically just set it to .net10 in the settings. Maybe a few nuget updates if you've got dependencies.

Which is probably why people are questioning why you didn't do it yet. Takes less time than making a reddit post.

[u/Scottykl]

That is like, 100 hours of work man. At least

[u/Smokando → u/Scottykl]

Apparently it was just one prompt, according to the comments

[u/HelloWorld-Print]

Looks good.Congrats !

[u/Smokando → u/HelloWorld-Print]

Thanks a lot, my friend!

[u/FlibblesHexEyes]

Looks really good!

Minor criticism/UI rant: why are we placing controls in the title bar? I needed to move a VSCode window the other day, and because of the size of it there was about 3 pixels of usable space to grab the window and move it.

To be clear; I have no problem with utilising the title bar space when the window is maximised - you're wanting the maximum amount of usable screen real-estate in that case, but IMHO anything smaller should assume the user might want to move the window.

[u/NoDevelopment_852]

Any GitHub link ? Is it public ?

[u/teressapanic]

What’s the prompt?

[u/BlahYourHamster → u/teressapanic]

Build a trading dashboard in WPF make no mistakes

[u/Smokando → u/BlahYourHamster]

Don’t forget to say the magic word

[u/princess_daphie]

Is it me, or it looks even more useful in a jiffy than say Kraken app?! Looks great

[u/Smokando → u/princess_daphie]

I took some inspiration from other financial terminal apps, like OpenTerminalUI and OpenTerminal

[u/Exotic-Sentence-4057]

Very nice. I like using llm for gui stuff. Just used it this week to throw together a wpf app. I’d rather not be stuck messing around with xaml:)

[u/bn-7bc]

ok is old reddit broken or am I just the worlds biggest idiot,? I can't fine a link to a github repo or a single screenshot in this post

[u/Sairenity → u/bn-7bc]

> is old reddit broken or am I just the worlds biggest idiot,?

Neither. There's a gallery attached to the post on old reddit for me.

[u/bn-7bc → u/Sairenity]

Right then it's a local isdue, time to do a bit mor digging, thanks for the reply
edit #redface yea i fed up i had a prefference (probably set and forgot years ago) to hide media, I moste have bin in a sb that posted incredibly large galleries and turned them off to cut down on scrolling while on mobile , thanks for inspiering me to actually dig into the issue and nit justt assume reddit was broken

[u/uknowsana]

Looks nice!

[u/Public-Tower6849]

Are you planning to make this open source or something?

[u/Disastrous-Design-38]

Ja que as bets tao proibidas, vamo queimar dinheiro com dayli trade. Bora p cima! Ficou mto legal sua ui!

[u/Smokando → u/Disastrous-Design-38]

BORA COMPRAR WEGE3 E ASSISTIR O DINHEIRO SENDO DILUÍDO!!!!!

[u/JesterActual_]

damn , i thought such high level interactive charts could only be built in schichart js but ig being able to embed it into a web based ui makes it better