Apex

A trading terminal that enforces the plan.

Apex unifies execution records, market context and risk rules across multiple brokers — then holds the trader to the limits they set before the session started.

In active development · used daily by its author

What it is

Built by a trader, for the part of trading that isn't analysis

Most platforms are very good at showing you a market and indifferent to what you do next. Apex assumes the opposite problem: that the gap between a trader's knowledge and their results is execution discipline, not information.

So alongside the usual terminal surfaces — charts, market context, an accurate journal — Apex runs a deterministic rule engine over live positions: daily loss limits, trade-count velocity, post-loss cooldowns, worst-case exposure across accounts. When a limit is approached, it says so, on the phone as well as the screen.

Apex does not trade. Broker connections are read-only. There is no order-placement path in the software; the capability is absent by design, not merely unused. Every order is entered by the trader, in their broker's own platform.

How market data works

You connect your broker. We are not a data vendor.

Apex is a client to data you are already entitled to. You connect your own brokerage account, and Apex renders and analyses the data that account provides under your own subscription and your own professional or non-professional status.

Apex does not resell, redistribute, republish or externally disseminate exchange market data. It holds no redistribution licence and requires none, because data never passes from one user to another, and no market data is offered as a product.

Exchange licensor Broker distributor The trader entitled subscriber Apex reader · analysis licenses delivers reads analysis returns to the same trader no path outward: no redistribution · no orders
Data flows one way and terminates with the trader who is entitled to it. Apex adds analysis; it adds no distribution path and no order path.

Capabilities

What is running today, and what is not

Marked honestly. Apex is a working tool in daily use by its author, not a finished product.

Execution record live

Fills captured across brokers into one normalised store, with FIFO profit and loss and flat-to-flat trade grouping so a scaled position reads as one trade.

Journal and analytics live

Tagged trade history, calendar, per-setup performance, and excursion analysis measuring how far a trade ran for and against before it closed.

Risk rule engine live

Deterministic limits evaluated against live positions — daily loss, trade velocity, cooldowns, cross-account exposure. Advisory and read-only.

Alerting live

One alert bus, many sources and sinks: rule breaches, pipeline health and platform alerts, delivered to phone and terminal with deduplication and rate limiting.

Market context live

Volatility term structure, rate curve, and options dealer-positioning surfaces including gamma exposure and flip levels across index and futures books.

Historical data store live

Tick and bar history with explicit provenance labelling, so a measured figure and a derived one are never presented as the same kind of thing.

Charting in development

The volume-profile and order-flow compute engine is complete and render-independent. The chart surface it feeds is being rebuilt.

Order entry not built

No order-placement capability exists. If it is ever added, it will require a deliberate human action per order — never an automated one.

Principles

Constraints the software is built under

No autonomous trading. No rule, model or agent may originate, size or send an order. This is architectural rather than a policy setting.

Context, not signals. Analytical surfaces report measured state and the mechanical consequence of that state. They do not emit trade directives.

Data honesty. Certified, recorded and derived figures are labelled distinctly wherever they appear, and stored analysis freezes the inputs it was based on.

Claims are pre-registered. Anything statistical is specified before the data is examined, and replicated before it is believed.

Entity

Legal entity
Preston Odell Design LLC
Structure
Holding company. Apex is its software venture, alongside Elite Auto Body and POD Motorsports.
Principal
Preston Odell — developer and sole operator
Contact
preston@apexchart.io
Stage
Pre-release. In daily production use by its author; no external users.