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Build the desktop terminal serious traders have been pirating their way into for fifteen years.
That's the mission, in one sentence. The professional trading tools day traders actually want all live behind enterprise-grade paywalls or grandfathered licenses bought a decade ago. Spectra rebuilds that surface natively, gives it away free during launch, and ships an actual scripting language so your strategies don't live in a screenshot folder.
Why traders pick Spectra.
Speed. 144 fps on 50,000 candles, even on a laptop. Buttery scrolling on mobile and tablet too — no janky web charts, no "please wait" overlays at the open.
Low memory. Spectra sips memory. Run it next to your broker, your news feed, and Slack on a 8 GB laptop and you'll still have headroom. Most charting apps eat 2-3× more.
Ownership. Your scripts, your settings, your trade history — every byte is yours to export. JSON in, JSON out. No proprietary lock-in, no "trial period" countdown to surprise you.
Values.
Paper-trading by default.
You opt in to lose money. Live trading needs an explicit, typed-phrase confirmation; auto-orders need a per-secret 2FA acknowledgement.
Your data, your scripts.
Scripts export as JSON. Settings, alerts, and trading state are yours to take with you. No lock-in by design.
Honest defaults.
The product is genuinely free during launch — every feature, no card, no countdown. We may add optional premium add-ons for enterprise customers later, but the core stays free.
The creator.
Charbel Alhajj C.H.
Solo founder · engineer · trader
Spectra is built and maintained by one person — by design. Every line of code, every pixel, every wire format, every translation. You email support, you get me.
Six years of full-stack and systems engineering — APIs, payment rails, broker integrations — with the trading screen always within reach. Spectra is the tool I kept wishing existed: footprint and DOM on the chart instead of behind a $1,500 paywall, a real scripting language instead of a screenshot folder, and a roadmap shaped by the person who actually trades on it.
- Experience
- 6 years shipping production systems
- Stack
- Native code · TypeScript · Postgres
- Domain
- Markets, order flow, low-latency trading infra
- Mode
- Open changelog, public roadmap, no investors to please
Press kit.
Every Spectra logo and brand mark, packaged as SVG so it scales to any size without losing crispness.
Includes: wordmark, app icon, brand mark, favicon, tile variants — light + dark.
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Spectra Terminal is an independent product.
Spectra Terminal is founded and operated by Charbel Alhajj. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise related to any other company, product, or service using the name “Spectra” — including but not limited to Spectra Logic, Spectra Systems, Spectra Energy, Spectra Networks, and Spectra7. Names and marks belong to their respective owners; any resemblance is coincidental.
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