Every update, in plain English.

A quiet release you'll feel more than see. Charts paint faster, eat less memory, and stop dragging each other down when four panes are open at once.

What changed for you

• Buttery, even on a four-pane split. Run a 1-minute, 5-minute, hourly, and daily side by side — each pane stays as smooth as a single chart used to be.
• Less memory hunger. Browser tabs hold their weight through a long session on historical data. No more "this tab is using too much memory" pop-up at lunchtime.
• Instant workspace switching. Hopping between saved layouts — pre-market, open, power-hour — feels immediate. No more loading flash.
• Cleaner scrolling on years of history. Scroll back through 50,000 candles without the chart catching its breath.

Small things that add up

• The crosshair stays attached to your last symbol when you switch tabs — no more clicking in twice.
• Saved drawings re-appear before the chart has finished its first paint. The lines are there when you blink.
• Closing a chart frees its memory immediately instead of at the next save.

Nothing on the surface changed. Open Spectra and just try four charts. You'll feel the difference within a minute.

The work between Sprint 1 and the public Pro launch. Two big things land together: the dashboard users see after sign-in, and the admin surface that operates it.

Dashboard (live now at app.spectraterminal.com)

A standalone Next.js 16 app — separate from the marketing site — that owns every authenticated surface. Sign in / sign up from the marketing site now bounces here.

• /overview — equity computed from accounts plus open positions, day P&L, recent fills.
• /trades — every closed trade, sortable + CSV export.
• /scripts — manage your indicator/alert/screener/drawing/strategy scripts. Grouped sidebar by kind, optimistic delete.
• /alerts — full CRUD with a side drawer; price-above / price-below / raw-DSL conditions; live SymbolSearch + a CurrentPriceTile with −5 / −1 / now / +1 / +5 % quick-set buttons.
• /auto-orders — every webhook fire and the broker response, filterable.
• /workspaces — rename + delete, see the JSON shape.
• /webhooks — per-secret detail page: full inbound URL, HMAC verification snippet for Node + curl, audit log of every fire, IP-allowlist editor, daily-loss-cap editor, kill switch.
• /usage, /plan, /settings (profile / security / theme / language), /account (with the GDPR delete-account flow).
• Symbol search merges Binance crypto (exchangeInfo + 24h ticker) with Twelvedata stocks / forex / ETFs / indices, grouped + filterable in one box.
• Webhook secrets minted on the dashboard are AES-256-GCM-sealed in the worker's exact wire format — same SECRETS_ENCRYPTION_KEY as desktop, so secrets created anywhere work everywhere.

Admin surface (RBAC-gated)

Operators with the admin role get a second sidebar:

• /admin/users — create / edit / suspend / freeze users, force sign-out per user via Edge Function, password reset, delete, RBAC role assignment, per-user quota overrides on max_alerts and max_scripts. User activity columns and an RPC helper to populate them.
• /admin/roles — list of roles + per-role permission matrix editor.
• /admin/tiers — per-tier limits and per-tier flat-$ commissions per asset class (crypto, stock, etf, index, futures, forex). Stock / ETF / index are now separate classes (was a single stock_etf lump).
• /admin/audit — every admin mutation is logged with who / what / when / before / after.
• /admin/feed-health — live probes against Binance, Twelvedata, and Supabase, independent of the VPS worker.
• /admin/webhooks — system-wide list of every webhook secret across every account, with email column, fire counts, filters, and a per-secret kill switch.
• /admin/settings — maintenance announcement panel that surfaces a banner across the dashboard.

Chart polish

• Oscillator sub-panes — RSI / MACD / Stochastic / etc. live below the price pane in their own resizable panes. New "Custom Indicators" tab in the indicator modal.
• Drag-resize — every sub-pane has a drag handle on its top edge.
• Pinned indicator scripts now actually render on the chart at sign-in. The hydration was previously skipping bytecode-VM scripts.
• Asset-only sync default — linked-chart groups sync the asset by default; the timeframe-and-symbol-together toggle is now opt-in via the new explicit Symbol toggle.
• OS cursor hidden over the chart canvas and sub-panes — the software crosshair is the only cursor you see.
• Crosshair-style sub-menu on the Select sidebar button.
• Crosshair axis badges paint above axis labels (was visually occluded on certain themes).
• Topbar dropdowns got a scrim layer + cursor handling so the menu dismisses cleanly on outside-click.

Scripts UI

• Grouped sidebar layout, kind cards, status header per group.
• Optimistic delete; emoji glyphs replaced with ASCII for terminals that didn't render the emoji set cleanly.
• Manager's INNER filter resets when the kind changes (was stale).

Pricing / plans

• Realtime updates are now free for every tier — the desktop subscribes to your own-account rows from Supabase Realtime regardless of plan. Pro still gets the multi-account + cloud-worker delta.
• Per-account / per-tier flat-$ commissions across crypto, stock, ETF, index, futures, forex (admin-editable).
• Position-mode (Netted / Hedged) is now a column in the Broker Terms table — set per broker connection.

Backtester

• Indicator-style strategies that previously only opened positions now auto-flip on opposite signal (buy after a hold-long → flat then short). Closes a long-running asymmetry where the equity curve only ever ratcheted in one direction.

Notes for testers

• Webhook secrets created before this build still work, but new ones minted on the dashboard sit beside them in the same encrypted column. No rotation needed.
• The dashboard runs on its own deploy, so updating the desktop won't sign you out of the dashboard or vice-versa.

The release that takes Spectra out of beta. The 24/7 cloud alert engine, every order type, every chart, every drawing — all included, no card, no upgrade.

What you can do now that you couldn't before

• Alerts that fire while you sleep. Set a price-level or strategy alert, close the laptop, and wake up to a push notification or email — fired from the cloud, not your machine. No "is my computer still running?"
• A first chart that's ready to trade. New here? Spectra now opens on a populated chart and walks you through the four things every trader sets up first: symbol, timeframe, footprint, and an alert.
• Your language, every screen. Every prompt, every menu, every error — English, Arabic (full right-to-left), Spanish, French, and German.
• Delete in one click. Account → Delete account wipes every chart, alert, and script you own. No support email, no waiting list.

What got smoother

• The backtester now closes positions cleanly on signal flips — no more "why is this still open?".
• Bear candles line up to the pixel on Retina displays in the Cobalt theme.
• Resetting your layout no longer eats your saved chart states.
• Signing out and back in keeps every chart and workspace tab exactly where you left it.

Heads-up for Pro testers

Webhook secrets from earlier builds need a one-time rotation — same secret, just sealed in the new envelope. Spectra will prompt you on next launch.

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