A look inside the terminal

One bar, every widget. It is how you open anything in Noda.

• The whole catalogue comes up, each widget beside the code that opens it.
• Type to narrow the list. It matches the code, the name and the keywords — fomc finds the economic calendar, jupyter finds the Python notebook.
• Enter opens the highlighted widget on the canvas. Once you know a code you can skip the list entirely and type it straight in.
• Codes you use constantly can be pinned as pills along the top bar, one click away.

Most active, top movers and unusual volume, refreshing live.

• Five views across the top: Active, Gainers, Losers, $Volume and relative volume — the last for names trading well above their own average.
• Market-cap floors and ceilings filter out what you do not want to see, so a list of movers is not a list of microcaps.
• Prices tick in place and each cell flashes on the way up or down, so movement is visible without watching a number.
• Click a row to send that ticker to the rest of your workspace.

The index broken into its sectors, each weighted by what it actually contributes.

• Each slice is a GICS sector sized by its index weight and coloured by its move, so the day reads as one picture: what is carrying the index and what is dragging it.
• Switch between the S&P 500 and the DJIA, and between the map and a plain table of every member.
• The rail on the right keeps the day's largest gainers and losers among the constituents.
• The centre carries the index itself, so the sector moves always have the benchmark to sit against.

The names you actually follow, live, in as little space as they need.

• Several lists, each its own tab — a core book, a sector you are working through, a set of candidates.
• Add names one at a time, or paste a whole set at once with Batch Import.
• It shrinks to a rail down the side of a workspace and still shows ticker, last and change.
• Click a name and every ticker-linked widget in the group follows it.

The eleven GICS sectors as the funds that track them, strongest first.

• One row per sector, each carried by its sector fund — XLK for technology, XLV for healthcare, XLE for energy — so the day's rotation reads top to bottom in eleven lines.
• Ranked on the change you can see. As prices tick, the order follows them, so the top row is the strongest sector now and not the strongest one five minutes ago.
• Price and change share one colour, so a sector reads as a single direction across its row.
• A * beside a price means it is not coming from the live stream. Hover it and it says why.
• Click a row to open that sector's chart.

Everything you would open five widgets for, on one screen.

• The description and the business, the price chart over six ranges, and the key metrics — valuation, dividend, float, short interest, the 52-week range — laid out together.
• Quarterly revenue by product breaks the top line into its segments, with the trend, the share of the total and the year-on-year move for each.
• Competitors run along the bottom with their own live quotes and sparklines, and the latest headlines sit beside them.
• Analyst ratings are on the right, each firm with its old target and its new one. The small codes in the corners — FA EM OWN CF — open the full widget behind any panel.

Historical and realtime charting, with drawing tools and indicators.

• Intervals from one minute to a month, ranges from a day to the full history, candles or bars or a line, linear or log.
• A drawing rail down the left: trendlines, levels, channels, measures and text. What you draw is saved with the chart and comes back with it.
• Indicators on the price or in their own pane, and Events to mark earnings and dividends on the timeline.
• Compare a second security on the same axes with Add Data, read the values off in a table, or snapshot the frame as an image.
• Charts you want again go to the Graph Library with their drawings, indicators and tags intact.

Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, five years side by side.

• Highlights first: revenue, gross profit, EBITDA, net income, diluted EPS and free cash flow, each with its growth rate or margin on the line beneath it.
• Three further tabs for the full Income, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow statements.
• The strip along the bottom holds the multiples and the returns — P/E both ways, P/B, EV/EBITDA, ROE, ROA, payout — so the ratios sit under the figures they come from.
• Figures are pulled from filings, not typed in, and every column says which fiscal year it is.

One figure across every quarter a company has filed, its growth beside it, and the consensus ahead.

• Pick the figure: Sales, EBITDA, Net Income, EPS, the balance-sheet lines or the three cash flows. Quarters run down the side, fiscal years across, with the annual total and the trailing twelve months beneath.
• Two tables side by side, the figure and its growth, so the level and the rate are read at once. Growth is year on year, or quarter on quarter with PoP.
• Green is filed, taken from the same statements FA prints. White is the analysts' estimate for periods not yet reported, so the matrix runs on past the last filing.
• The tables hold six years and page back through the rest. The charts beneath show ten, the annual line and every quarter as a bar. Hover a point for its figures.
• P/E, P/S, P/B and EV/EBITDA along the bottom: trailing, forward, and the next two fiscal years.

The consensus, the spread behind it, and whether it is moving.

• The recommendation split across forty-four firms, and the price target low, mean and high with the implied move from the last price beside it.
• How it has moved puts this month's split next to the three before it, so a drift from Buy to Hold is visible rather than inferred.
• Analyst momentum counts upgrades, downgrades, targets raised and targets cut over thirty and ninety days, and nets them.
• Every published call is listed underneath — firm, action, rating, and the target it moved from and to.

What the returns were, how they were distributed, and how they sat against the market.

• Set the window at the top and every figure below is computed over it, with the session count beside the dates. It is an arbitrary range, not a menu of three.
• Return and risk is the summary — total return and CAGR, annualised mean and volatility, Sharpe, Sortino, Calmar, and the worst drawdown the window contained.
• Distribution is the shape of the daily returns rather than their average: best and worst day, a one-day 95% value at risk, skewness, excess kurtosis, and what share of sessions were up. A Sharpe of 0.72 means something different with a kurtosis of 14.
• Benchmarks gives correlation, beta and R² against SPY and QQQ, and the alpha beside its p-value: one stock's alpha is usually smaller than its own error, so it is never printed without the figure that says how far to trust it.
• Risk over time plots 30-session volatility and the drawdown from the last high, with SPY drawn faintly behind both, so a quiet period and a violent one are told apart by looking. The deepest fall is dated, with the day the high was regained.

The chain, and the surface the chain implies. Two faces of one widget.

• Calls on the left, puts on the right, strikes down the middle, and a band across the chain at the last price — so what is in the money is a position on the page rather than a calculation.
• The expiries run along the top and a slider sets how many strikes to keep around the money. Tick a Greek — delta, gamma, theta, vega, rho, lambda — and it becomes a column.
• Visuals plots what the chain implies: the 3D surface, a heatmap, the smile, the term structure and the skew, against strike, moneyness or delta.
• The surface can be drawn on IV or on any of the Greeks, and dragged, zoomed and panned. The statistics beside it are the ones you would otherwise work out by hand — ATM implied vol, the 25-delta risk reversal and butterfly, whether the term structure is in backwardation.
• It says how many quotes it had and how many it dropped. A surface built on a thin chain is a surface worth doubting, and the widget would rather you knew.

Every wire you have connected, in one table. Open it bare for the market, or put a ticker in front of it.

• Bare, it is the market's wire, arriving as it happens — timestamps to the second, a ticker beside a headline that named one, and every source you have connected in the same table.
• It moves while you are reading it, so there is a Pause. Star a headline and it is in Saved.
• AAPL EQ N gives the same table about one company, and the chips underneath say which wire each story came from and how many it carried — the live feed, SEC filings, corporate actions, the news archives.
• Filter by source type, by where the ticker appears in the story, or by a search across the headlines.
• Open an article in a reader inside the application, or have one read aloud.

The session written up twice a day, sorted into the things it was about.

• Two editions a day — Morning before the open, Evening after the close — each a set of headlines with the line of context underneath that a headline leaves out.
• Grouped into the sections that matter on the day: top stories, oil and energy, markets and macro, geopolitical, crypto.
• A counter in the corner runs down to the next edition, and the arrows step back through previous days.
• Reading it is how you catch up on a session you did not watch, in about a minute.

What is being released, when, and what it came in against.

• A week, the next week or the month, every release with its country, period, actual, consensus and previous reading.
• Filter by country and by expected impact, or search for the release you are waiting on.
• Times are shown in your own zone, and the figures fill in as they print.
• The header is explicit that the impact rating is derived from the release name rather than published by the source — a widget saying what it does and does not know.

A week of reports at a time, ranked by what they move.

• The seven cards carry the count, so where the week is heavy is visible before you pick a day.
• The table is ranked by market cap, so the names that move an index are at the top of it.
• Timing says BMO or AMC — before the open or after the close — because when the number arrives is half of what you needed to know.
• Estimate against reported, and the surprise in both dollars and per cent, coloured by direction. A dash is a company that has not reported yet.
• Weekend cards say the markets are closed rather than showing you an empty table, and the foot of the widget names the source and whether it is live.

Which calls are on right now, which are coming, and which you have missed.

• Three bands — Live now, Upcoming and Ended — so the state of the day's calls is one glance.
• Each row carries the ticker, its listing venue, the scheduled time and the period being reported.
• Ended calls say how long ago, which is what you need when you are deciding whether to go and read it.
• From here the Transcripts Hub opens the text of a call in a reader inside the application.

Direct messages, groups you make, and the public channels — in the terminal, beside the thing you are talking about.

• Three kinds of room, all in one rail. Direct messages to one person, groups you make and invite into, and the public channels — #general, #stocks, #options, #crypto, #forex — which are the whole community.
• A ticker in a message is not text. Press $, pick the name, and it goes in as a chip carrying the live quote: green or red, moving while the message sits there. A level someone gave you an hour ago says what it is worth now.
• Reply to a particular line, react to one, and send images and stickers.
• This one opens for a member of the Noda community. Everything else in this guide works without that.

A stream in the workspace, on channels you put there yourself.

• Nothing is bundled and nothing is curated. You give a channel a name and a link, and it is in the picker.
• Three kinds of link work: an HLS stream — any .m3u8, with whatever token the provider hangs off it — a YouTube video, or a channel handle like @SkyNews.
• A handle is stored as a handle, not as whatever it happened to be showing. Noda asks the channel what is live at the moment you press play, so a channel does not go dark when the broadcast you saved has ended.
• It is a widget like any other: resize it, put it in a corner of the workspace, or pop it out into its own window on a second screen.

Claude or ChatGPT, running on this computer, on your own plan.

• Pick an assistant once. Each runs locally through its own tool and signs in with your account — nothing is billed through Noda.
• It can see the workspace you have open, so a question about what is on your screen is a question you can just ask.
• No Noda account, no relay: the conversation goes from your machine to the provider you chose and nowhere else.

Where the data comes from, and where your keys are kept.

• Every provider in one place, each saying what it actually powers — quotes, history, option chains, filings, economic series, news.
• Keys are held in an encrypted vault sealed by your operating system's own credential store. They are never written into a layout or a log, and never sent to Noda.
• Some sources need no key at all and are marked as such, so a new install is useful before you have signed up for anything.
• A key is yours: it goes to the provider it belongs to, when you make a request, and nowhere else.