RiskPicks is a companion app. It's built to sit next to your charts and your broker, feeding you size, stops, signals, and context in real time. It runs on whatever you open it on, and the mobile view does a fine job when you're away from the desk. But the place it really hits its stride is on a desktop, ideally a corner of a second monitor that you can leave it on all day.

Here's how the desktop setup unlocks the parts of RiskPicks that were built for it.

The page is a workspace, not a single card

The main calculator page is made up of nine cards: the position sizer, the order plan, the stock info card, the trade signals panel, the market pulse briefing, the FRED economic indicators, world markets, the daily movers list, and a recent tickers strip. On a desktop they all live in view at the same time. You drop in a ticker, the calculator hands you the share count and stop, the signals panel confirms or contradicts the trade, the movers list keeps you honest about whether the name is actually moving relative to everything else, and you're in or out of the decision in seconds.

Having all of that visible in one frame is the whole point. Charts on one screen, RiskPicks on another, broker order ticket within reach. The trade comes together because everything you need is in the same field of view.

You arrange the columns the way you trade

The layout on the calculator page is fully customizable. Three visible columns plus an unused bucket for the cards you don't look at. Drag the order plan into the leftmost column, signals and AI sentiment in the middle, market context on the right. Or flip it. A scalper who only cares about size and signals can pin those two and tuck everything else away. A swing trader who wants the macro picture can keep market pulse, FRED indicators, and world markets open all day.

You set it up once and it sticks. That customization is the feature that pays off the most when you have horizontal screen real estate to spread across.

It deserves its own panel

The cleanest setup is to give RiskPicks a dedicated window. Pop it into its own browser window, drag it to your second screen, and leave it there. The page is dense by design. Numbers update in place, the calculator recomputes as you type, and the order plan card stays pinned to whatever you most recently sized. Once it's positioned, it just runs quietly in the background of your day.

If you only have one monitor, snap the browser to half the screen and put your charting platform on the other half. The page is built to work in a vertical column too. Order plan at the top, signals below it, world markets clock at the bottom. That layout was the first thing tested when the customizable columns shipped.

The signals become at-a-glance information

Day and swing trades happen fast. The signals panel surfaces RSI, MACD, relative volume, support and resistance levels, and AI sentiment in a single block. When that block sits next to your chart, you confirm or skip a setup in two seconds. The AI sentiment briefing gives you a day verdict and a swing verdict, then walks through the supporting setup notes underneath. With room to read, it becomes a quick pre-trade gut check instead of something to wade through.

The trades page is where the rest of the day happens

After entry, the trades page picks up the workflow. Calendar view, P&L bars, detail cards for every open position, AI analysis on the trades that need a second opinion. The dashboard page adds the longer view: win rate over time, expectancy, sector exposure, the equity curve. All of that information is meant to be scanned at desktop resolution. You spread the cards out, eyeball the trends, and adjust the next day's plan accordingly.

Where mobile fits

The mobile view is there for the moments you're away from your desk. Glance at the AI sentiment for a ticker you're considering, check on an open trade, see what the world markets are doing on the train home. It's a useful pocket version of the dashboard for those quick check-ins.

The desktop is where the full toolkit comes together. A monitor RiskPicks can sit on all day, the column layout tuned to the way you trade, and the signals panel within glancing distance of your chart. That's the setup it was designed for, and that's where it earns its keep.

The recommended setup

  • Charting platform on monitor one, full screen.
  • Broker order ticket on monitor two, or in a snapped half-window.
  • RiskPicks in a dedicated browser window, ideally on a third monitor or the remaining half of monitor two.
  • Customize the column layout once. Cards you use most in the left and middle columns, context cards on the right, everything else in the unused bucket.
  • Pin the tab so it survives browser restarts.

Set it up that way and the workflow gets out of your way. That's what a real trading companion is supposed to do.