Bobby Powers
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Powers Edge

My own real-time trading platform: live market data, custom charting, and filters that surface the best setups so I don't have to hunt for them.

Year
2024 — Present
Role
Architect & sole engineer (personal project)
TypeScriptNext.jsNode.jsSupabase

The problem

I was trading off platform alerts from my own custom indicators. They fired constantly, and there was no good way to tell the strong setups from the noise. By the time I'd clicked through enough charts to find the good ones, the moment had often passed.

Approach

The first version was simple: I routed my existing alerts into the platform and wrote a filter that ranked them against my trading strategy. It proved the idea worked before I invested in anything bigger.

From there I replaced the alerts entirely with a real-time data stream for my watchlist, and built custom charting and filtering on top of it. The centerpiece is a chart wall that automatically rotates in the charts that are setting up, so the platform does the scanning and I only look at what matters.

Outcome

Finding setups used to be the biggest bottleneck in my trading. Now the platform does that work in real time, and I use it in my own trading. I keep improving it as my strategy evolves; recent additions include a scalping filter for a specific intraday setup.

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