--- title: "Meet the Terminal: one prompt, your whole desk" description: "The Terminal is a trading desk you build by asking for it. One sentence puts your charts and a brief on a live canvas; follow-ups dig into any story; orders wait on a card until you approve them." author: "TickHint Dev Team" date: 2026-09-10 updated: 2026-10-08 canonical: https://www.tickhint.com/blog/meet-the-terminal tags: ["Terminal", "TickMate", "Product"] --- # Meet the Terminal: one prompt, your whole desk > The Terminal is a trading desk you build by asking for it. One sentence puts your charts and a brief on a live canvas; follow-ups dig into any story; orders wait on a card until you approve them. Video: The Terminal: one sentence builds a desk of EURUSD and USDJPY charts and a morning brief; a follow-up about French bond yields is answered with sources; a 0.1 lot EURUSD short goes on an approval card and is filled on a demo account only after it is approved. Most trading platforms make you build your workspace before you can use it. Pick a layout, drag in the panels, find the symbols, set the timeframes, and only then start looking at the market. The **Terminal** works the other way round. There is one prompt. You say what you want to see, and TickMate builds the desk for you. ## One sentence, a whole desk *"Bring up my morning brief with an extra focus on EURUSD, and open up the EURUSD and USDJPY charts."* That is the whole setup. The charts land on a live canvas first, then the brief: the market session, your positions, today's events, the macro picture, and the focus you asked for, with the sources it read linked in line. The canvas holds whatever the conversation needs: live charts, tables, the brief, news, and your positions. Ask for something else and it rearranges. Close the tab and come back later: your session, and the canvas with it, can be restored. ## Follow any story The brief is a starting point, not a dead end. Ask about any line in it. In the video above, the brief mentions French bond yields; a follow-up question brings back the latest auction prints, the stories behind them, and what that means for the EURUSD chart already on the canvas. It also tells you what it cannot see. In that answer it says plainly that it has auction prints but no live secondary-market spread, so it cannot give you that number. An assistant you trade with should know the edge of its own data, and say so. ## Orders, on your terms When you want a trade, ask for it the way you would ask a colleague: *"Open a 0.1 lot short on EURUSD."* TickMate does not send it. It puts the order on a card: the side and size, the account it will go to, the bid and ask, the spread and the estimated cost. You approve it, and the Terminal asks you to confirm once more before anything leaves. If you are placing several orders in a row, you can tick *don't ask again* for that account. That choice is yours, it covers that account only, and it ends with the session. Once filled, the position joins your canvas, so it sits next to the charts and the brief that led to it. ## Your AI, your costs The Terminal runs on the AI you choose: credits on our key, or your own key from OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI or Z.ai. The status bar shows which model is driving, which broker is connected, and what each turn cost. A brief on a strong model costs around ten cents; a cheap model runs a whole session for under a cent. ## Plans The Terminal is on every plan. The morning brief, the news and the intelligence sources behind it are part of Pro. [See the plans](/#pricing). TickMate's answers are analysis, not investment advice, and it can be wrong. Every trade you place is your decision.