Inspiration

Retail traders lose over 90% of their capital not because they lack knowledge — but because they lack the right tools. Professional traders on Wall Street use Bloomberg terminals with physical buttons, dedicated hardware, and multi-screen setups. Retail traders have none of that. They click, hesitate, misclick, and emotionally overtrade using nothing but a keyboard and mouse.

When we discovered the Logitech Actions SDK and the MX Creative Console + MX Master 4 ecosystem, we immediately saw the opportunity: bring physical, tactile hardware control to everyday retail traders. The idea of feeling risk in your hand before you click — that's what sparked TradeDeck.

What it does

TradeDeck is a Windows plugin that transforms the MX Creative Console and MX Master 4 into a complete trading terminal for TradingView.

MX Creative Console handles execution:

  1. 3 programmable dials switch timeframes (1m→5m→15m→1h→4h→Daily), scroll through watchlist assets (XAUUSD, EURUSD, BTCUSD), and switch drawing tools instantly
  2. 9-button keypad executes Buy, Sell, Close All, TP+10 pips, SL-10 pips, set Alerts, and switch chart timeframes — all without touching the keyboard

MX Master 4 handles awareness:

  1. Haptic vibration patterns communicate risk level in real time — silent when safe, double-pulse when cautious, continuous vibration when over 10% risk exposure
  2. Actions Ring displays live price, P&L, and risk percentage directly on the mouse
  3. Pine Script alerts from TradingView trigger immediate haptic feedback via webhook — you feel a trade signal before you see it

Together, they create the first dual-hardware trading console for retail traders.

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