Trading meets gaming. With Wickwood, WickedDesk is getting its own game: you build knowledge through play as a team, and the players grow into a community that helps each other get better. With discipline, you win. The foundation is Atlas, because WickedDesk now works entirely from Atlas. The film above shows both in just over three minutes.
Until now, WickedDesk was a collection of good pages. The market signal here, the scanner there, the journal somewhere else again. Every switch closed the chart, and with the chart went your view of the stock you were actually looking at. I rebuilt that from the ground up: Atlas, WickedDesk's own chart engine, is now the workspace. You start in the chart, and every other area comes to you instead of you leaving the chart.
Here is what that looks like, step by step, and everything that came with it. After that, it is all about Wickwood.
You start in the chart
After you log in, after checkout and when you open the app, you land straight in Atlas. At the top are your chart tabs, on the right the rail with every area and, right next to it, your docked watchlist. When you switch symbols there, Atlas only swaps the data, the chart is not rebuilt. Your indicators and interval stay exactly as you set them.
Every area opens next to the chart
The rail on the right has two parts. At the top are the panels for the open symbol: Stock, News, Scanner, Hot, Macro, AI and Editor. Below them are the areas of the platform: Overview, Market, Groups, Journal, Research and Library, with your account at the very bottom.
One click opens an area as a panel next to the chart or at full width. The chart stays loaded the whole time and is not recalculated. One click on Chart, and you are back without any loading.
The Overview opens as a large overlay on top of the charts. The charts stay dimmed in the background, and a click beside it, Escape or Back to chart closes it again. Inside are your modules, such as the theme radar, hot sectors, industry ranks, sector rotation and groups, arranged the way you set them up.
Every page, every symbol, every command with ⌘K
If you would rather type than click, ⌘K, or Ctrl+K on Windows, opens the command palette. It finds symbols, chart commands such as adding indicators, starting a replay or saving a chart image, and every single page of the app. Type Journal, and Trades, Import, Daily review, Calendar, Reports, Plans and Notes are right there. Enter opens, the arrow keys select.
The guided flow carries you through the trading day
In the Market panel and in the Overview you will find the guided flow: seven steps that carry you through every trading day. Market brief, Catalysts, Leadership, Watchlist, Chart check, Plan and Review. The card always shows where you stand. WickedDesk ticks off the first four steps as soon as you have opened the matching view. Chart check, Plan and Review are the ones you close yourself, on purpose. The chart check, for example, with Complete check right in the chart header.
The market brief is built around the market signal: its score, the change against the prior day and the prior week, the strongest and the weakest factor and its history over the last months. The News tab holds the briefing on what changed in the market today, sorted by topic and with the stocks that are mentioned most right now.
Leadership and the scanner right next to the chart
Under Groups you find sectors, themes, industries and sub-sectors ranked by strength. Click a group to see its stocks with their relative strength, next to the group's board, rotation and path. That is how you find the leaders in the strongest groups without leaving the chart.
The scanner now runs as one scanner right next to the chart. At the top you pick Focus, Momentum, Breakouts, Trend or EP, below that are the hits with their setup score, relative strength and ADR. Click a row to load the stock into the chart, click the star to put it on your watchlist. All scans and filters opens the full scanner with stocks, crypto, leaders, matrix, hot, swing and the edge check.
The chart check in the Stock panel
The Stock panel puts everything about the open stock into four tabs. Overview shows sector, industry, RS, setup, ADR, volume and market cap, plus the next earnings date and a quality check: strong group, revenue and EPS growth, news flow, RS and setup, volume and distance to the high. The Data tab adds insider filings, short volume and attention, Events covers earnings, estimates and news.
Under Options you see how the options market is positioned. One click puts the call wall, max pain and the put wall into the chart as lines, so the levels sit exactly where you read the price action.
Indicators, levels and drawings
The indicator dialog has a search that also understands codes, plus the library, active studies, favorites, recently used studies and templates. Everything is sorted into Trend, Levels, Momentum, Volatility, Volume, Comparison and Events. New additions include pivot points with five calculation methods, prior period levels, the opening range, SuperTrend, Parabolic SAR, Chandelier Exit, Ichimoku, EMA clouds and relative strength against the S&P 500.
The drawing toolbar sits on the left with lines, Fibonacci, pitchforks, Gann, patterns, shapes and notes. To draw, just press and hold, and every line can carry an alert with a direction.
Atlas Script: your own indicators
In the Editor panel you write your own indicators in Atlas Script. If you already have Pine code, paste it in and Atlas checks it line by line. What Atlas understands runs in the chart right away, and what it cannot do yet shows up in the report with its line number. Atlas Script supports a subset of Pine Script, not all of it.
If you do not want to write code, describe the indicator in your own words and the AI writes it for you. Your scripts live in your library, you can share them, and strategies get a real backtest.
Up to 16 charts
At the top right you choose the layout: one chart, two side by side, two stacked, four, eight or sixteen. Watchlist as charts puts your whole list into a grid. You can name and save layouts, and symbol and interval can stay in sync across the charts.
Macro right on the chart
The Macro panel holds 168 economic series, covering rates, inflation, the economy, liquidity, credit and energy among others. One click opens a series as its own chart next to the stock, the line button lays it right over your price chart. That way you see the ten year US Treasury yield on the same timeline as the stock you are checking.
As of this week, every price chart and the economic data in Atlas run on WickedDesk's own Atlas engine. WickedDesk no longer uses a third party chart library for prices. The scanner mini charts, the stock detail, the group dossier, the setup details and the backtest all draw with Atlas now.
From the chart to the journal
With Replay you step back through history candle by candle and practice the decision before you know the outcome. Save lets you create a trade or a note straight from the chart. Entry, stop and target come directly from the chart, you only add the setup and your thoughts.
The journal opens at full width with Trades, Import, Daily review, Calendar, Reports, Plans and Notes. Broker sync pulls in your executions read only and detects duplicates.
Sample view with made-up values.
Desktop and phone: the same features
On your phone you start in the chart just the same, and it stays loaded. Overview, Journal and every other area open as a sheet over the chart, and a tap on the chart strip takes you back. Grids, saved views, tool favorites and the status bar are now on mobile too. My rule for this: what works on the desktop works on the phone.
If you prefer full size pages on the desktop, switch the workspace from Atlas to Classic under Account, Appearance in Pro mode. The setting is tied to your account.
A first look at Wickwood
Alongside WickedDesk I am building Wickwood, the game that goes with the platform. Let me say this first: it is not required. WickedDesk works completely without it, and if you want to play, you play whenever you like.
Above all, Wickwood is a place for community. There are chats, friend lists and candle circles as guilds, plus world boss nights where people meet up. And there is a lot to discover: loot, mounts, dungeons and zones that change with the market. The whole thing is loosely inspired by World of Warcraft. Here, you win with discipline.
Wickwood is a 3D world built from WickedDesk data. Each of the eleven sectors is its own zone, ranked by strength. The weather shows the rotation: sun when a sector leads, rain when it lags. Industry halls and trading houses stand for the leading groups and stocks, and the candle fields are real stocks. The higher the relative strength, the taller the candle.
Your character gets stronger through discipline. Your biggest enemies live inside you anyway: greed, fear and revenge show up as learning battles with made-up prices. The candle circles, the guilds of Wickwood, have their own crest, a circle chat, a message of the day and shared weekly goals. Discipline and play are what count there.
Images from the current development build of Wickwood.
And the game is meant to feed back into the platform. Loot from Wickwood is meant to show up in WickedDesk: as a color theme for your chart, a frame around your avatar, a title under your name or the sound of your price alerts. You will play with your WickedDesk account, no second login needed.
Wickwood is coming soon. I will only name a date once it is really ready. The learning quests use made-up prices, Wickwood is 18+, and none of this is investment advice.
If something is missing in the new workspace or does not work the way you expect, let me know. That is exactly where the next steps come from.