Product
Everything BYP does — and what it doesn’t.
Each section says which platforms have it and where its limits are. If a feature is in a build that is not in the stores yet, it says that too.
Trading Terminal
Chart, watchlist and ticket, one screen.
The terminal puts a chart, your watchlist and an order ticket side by side. A command bar accepts a symbol, an order phrase or a slash command, and four layouts (Balanced, Scalper, Swing, Analyst) rearrange the screen for the job at hand.
Every order ticket shows Risk Guard’s check before you send it. In the Windows app, tickets for a connected Alpaca account place real orders after you review and confirm; otherwise they book to your paper account.
The depth ladder in the desktop terminal is simulated and labelled SIMULATED. On the web, prices show as Unavailable or Demo because the browser app has no market-data connections.
Charts & indicators
122 indicators, 46 drawing tools.
From moving averages, RSI and MACD to Ichimoku, Supertrend and VWAP. Drawing tools include trend lines and rays, Fibonacci retracements, extensions, fans and time zones, Gann tools, pitchforks, XABCD and other harmonic patterns, regression channels and a position tool.
Chart styles include candles, Heikin-Ashi, Kagi, Line Break, line, area and baseline, with bar replay, saved templates and go-to-date. Every indicator has a plain-language explanation from Captain Umro, and every chart says where its bars came from.
Indicator and drawing-tool counts are for Windows and the web. Android has its own chart set.
Alerts
Conditions you write. Rules that wait for real data.
Alert on price, on Captain Umro’s descriptive read, or on any of 121 indicators (all but ZigZag, which repaints). Pick the indicator and its settings, an operator such as “is above” or “crosses”, and a value or another line.
An alert is evaluated only on data that is authorised for real-time use; while data is delayed, warming up or simulated, the alert holds instead of firing. Delivery is in-app and as a desktop notification, and on Windows an alert can post a signed JSON copy to your own HTTPS endpoint.
Indicator alerts arrive with the next Windows update (0.9.6). Alerts are notifications only: BYP never trades or drafts an order from an alert. No email, SMS or push delivery.
Research
Calendar, macro, news and fundamentals.
Research modules on Windows cover the economic calendar, macro data, news, fundamentals and earnings. Keyless sources (for example World Bank and SEC EDGAR) work out of the box; adding your own provider keys widens coverage.
The screener lets you filter by price, change, valuation, margins and RSI, or describe a screen in plain English.
The screener currently runs over a fixed sample universe and says so with a DEMO UNIVERSE badge — it is not a live market scan. Options analytics use a sample volatility table and are educational. What each research module can show depends on the sources you connect.
Portfolio & risk
Your holdings, with risk in view.
Enter holdings by hand, or import positions from a connected broker in the Windows app. BYP never fills an empty portfolio with made-up holdings; an optional sample portfolio is clearly labelled and can be cleared at any time.
The risk dashboard and position-sizing tools put drawdown and risk of ruin next to every size you consider. Wealth tools cover net worth, debt, goals, retirement and tax-lot planning from the figures you enter.
Broker import is Windows-only. Risk figures are only as good as the holdings and prices behind them; with nothing connected they are labelled demo. The tax tools are planning aids, not tax advice.
Trade journal
The thesis before. The review after.
Log the setup, entry, exit and size of every trade, with the thesis you wrote before it and the review you wrote after it. Filter by strategy, setup, day or symbol to see which decisions actually worked.
A new journal shows a few demo trades, badged Demo, so you can see how it works; they disappear when you add your own. On Android, deleting an entry asks for confirmation (from version 1.0.4).
Journal statistics describe your past entries; they do not predict future results.
Strategies & backtests
Test ideas against overfitting.
Describe a rule-based strategy and backtest it. Strategy Canvas adds the checks most tools leave out: Monte Carlo resampling, walk-forward testing, the deflated Sharpe ratio and the probability of backtest overfitting.
In the Windows app, backtests use real daily history when you connect an Alpaca account. Without one, they run on a generated series and the result is labelled SIMULATED.
Backtests describe the past under assumptions; they are not forecasts. BYP does not run strategies automatically, and strategies never place orders.
Captain Umro
Research help that cites its sources.
Captain Umro explains charts, indicators and your own portfolio, writes the Morning Briefing, and answers questions in the app. It lists the sources behind each read and labels demo content.
Order placement
BYP never trades on its own.
Here is exactly who can place an order, where.
| Order placement | Alpaca only — US stocks and ETFs, in the Windows app, through your own Alpaca account. You review and confirm every order; nothing is sent automatically. |
|---|---|
| Interactive Brokers | Read-only. Live trading through BYP is on hold. |
| Tradier, OANDA | Read-only: data and portfolio sync. |
| Android and web | No order placement. Android paper trading is simulated on the phone. |
| Captain Umro and alerts | Never place an order. They inform; you decide. |
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