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Show HN: Free Ollama AI Trading Desktop App

VaultCharts launched a free desktop trading app that integrates AI analysis with traditional charting tools, allowing users to bring their own AI models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama. The app emphasizes privacy by keeping API keys and prompts local, and offers features such as pattern scanning, portfolio review, and entry proximity detection.

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Show HN: Free Ollama AI Trading Desktop App
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Fetch, scan, rank, confirm β€” like a co-trader on your desk.

Indicators, patterns, and chart tools on your desktop β€” or ask the AI to pull the numbers. You stay in control. Free to start.

Chart like TradingView. #

Analyze with AI when you want to.

Two ways to work the same market data. Run indicators, patterns, and strategies on the chart yourself β€” or ask the assistant to fetch, scan, and summarize a setup. Same vault, your choice.

Ask for analysis on a setup

Bring your own model. The assistant fetches data, scans structure, and walks through the trade β€” grounded in what's loaded, not invented prices.

Work the chart the classic way

Indicators, patterns, drawing tools, and multi-timeframe structure β€” the same kind of manual technical analysis you'd run in TradingView.

// ASSISTANT

Built for the decision #

β€” not the monologue.

Refresh a ticker, scan structure, and see which watchlist setups are closest to your entry β€” from the same charts, notes, and trade plans you already use.

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  β”‚ OHLCβ”‚
  β””β”€β”€β–Έβ”€β”€β”˜
    scan
  patterns

Tools, not vibes

Before you size a trade, pull the series: scan structure, run indicators, refresh a ticker, evaluate the setup against bars already in your vault.

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  β”‚W│───│Eβ”‚
  β””β”€β”˜     β””β”€β”˜
  watch β†’ entry

Ideas near entry

Know which watchlist setups are close to your levels and which are still waiting. Draft cards from proximity and momentum β€” nothing sticks until you confirm.

  │▁ β–„ β–ˆ
  β”‚β–ˆ β–ˆ β–ˆ
  └────────
  P&L review

Portfolio & journal

Review holdings, risk, and closed trades from your own plans. Dig into what worked last month without pretending the model knows next week’s open.

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  β•‘ β—ˆ β•‘
  β•šβ•β•β•β•
  your key
  your model

Your model, your rules

OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Switch profiles. Test connection before you trust it.

// HOW IT WORKS

Three steps. #

You stay in control.

// Models settingsprovider: anthropicmodel:    claude-sonnetkey:      sk-β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’β€’  βœ“ connected

// YOUR MODEL

Bring any model. #

Switch in one click.

Cloud providers or fully local. Test the connection before you trust it.

OpenAI

Cloud

Anthropic

Cloud

Gemini

Cloud

Grok

Cloud

DeepSeek

Cloud

Qwen

Cloud

Ollama

Local

LM Studio

Local

// TRY SAYING

  • β€ΊWhich watchlist tickers are closest to entry?
  • β€ΊAnalyze AAPL on the daily and evaluate the setup.
  • β€ΊReview my portfolio risk and suggest rebalance ideas.
  • β€ΊRemember I prefer max 1% risk per trade.
  • β€ΊWhat did my last closed trades teach me?
  • β€ΊRefresh BTC, then scan structure on the daily.

// PRIVACY

Your keys. Your edge. Your machine. #

Your keys never leave your machine as β€œVaultCharts’ keys.” Analysis is grounded in your vault β€” not vendor memory of the market.

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  β•‘ β—ˆ β•‘
  β•šβ•β•β•β•

BYOK β€” not our keys

You configure the provider. The desktop app talks to that API. VaultCharts does not sell LLM access.

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  β”‚ βœ“ β”‚
  β””β”€β”€β”€β”˜

Prompts stay local

Chat and optional learned memory save on your machine. We don’t store prompts for analytics.

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  β”‚ β”‚

Local models welcome

Ollama, LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint β€” zero cloud involvement if you want it.

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  β”‚β–ˆ β–ˆ
  └────

Tools on your OHLC

Calls tools on local series and app state β€” not the internet’s memory of last week’s prices.

Disclaimer: VaultCharts Assistant is for analysis and reflection. It does not provide financial advice, place orders, or guarantee outcomes. Always verify levels against your own process. AI FAQ β†’

Free charts. Your model. Tools that fetch the numbers. #

Local-first trading charts with an agentic assistant. Bring your own key. Keep your edge on device.

Free forever Β· Mac Β· Windows Β· Linux

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