Trading dashboard setup for day traders

Write down what you check before the open, at the open and during the session. Before the open that is usually scheduled economic releases, earnings for your tickers, overnight moves and the volatility index. During the session it is your watchlist, the chart and the levels you marked earlier.

Anything on screen that is not on that list costs attention. A headline feed you never act on is a distraction with a scroll bar.

Watchlist with price, change and relative volume, so you see which names are active today. Economic calendar filtered to high impact events. A volatility panel showing the VIX and its term structure. Top gainers and losers or a market heatmap for the open.

For options traders, gamma exposure for the tickers you trade and an options chain for the active symbol. For review, a journal calendar that shows each day's trades.

Give the most space to what you act on, usually the watchlist and the chart. Context that changes once a day, like the calendar, can sit small or behind a tab. On a single monitor, tabbed panels let several views share one slot.

Keep the layout stable. When panels stay in the same place every day, your eye finds them without searching.

Obelion's terminal dashboard is built from modules you add, resize and arrange: Watchlist, Economic Calendar, VIX and Volatility, GEX Overview, Options Chain, Market Heatmap, Top Winners and Top Losers, Earnings Calendar, Journal Calendar and more. Tab and slideshow containers fit several modules into one slot. Charts open from any row, and the layout is saved to your account.