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- The post describes a trader building a smartwatch app for real-time market monitoring. While innovative, it highlights the increasing pressure and 'always-on' mentality among retail traders, potentially leading to increased trading frequency and volatility, but the overall impact on US equities is likely slightly negative due to potential for increased retail trading impulsivity.
About a year ago, I realized something unhealthy about myself.
I’m a full time trader, and during market hours I genuinely felt like I couldn’t look away from the screen even for small things… grabbing water, walking around, sometimes even going for a pee.
It sounds funny, but after a point it honestly started feeling bad mentally. Like I was always “on alert”.
I hated that feeling of constantly needing to check my phone or monitor every few minutes just to stay updated.
So I decided to build something that could stay with me all the time and keep me updated effortlessly.
I already had a Wear OS smartwatch, so one night I made a simple stock ticker/watchface setup for myself. Nothing fancy initially just live prices on my wrist so I could glance anytime without pulling out my phone.
I posted it on Reddit back then mostly just to share what I made for myself, and honestly didn’t expect much. But a lot of people appreciated the idea and wanted something similar too.
That motivated me more than I expected.
For around 3 months, after market hours, I kept working on it late into the night almost daily and eventually turned it into a proper app called WearTicker.
Since then I’ve continuously updated and optimized it based on user feedback and my own daily use as a trader.
Right now it supports things like:
- stocks
- crypto
- forex
- derivatives
- currencies
- holdings/P&L
Would genuinely love feedback from traders here. Especially what kind of data or features you’d personally want on a smartwatch during market hours.