{"slug": "show-hn-free-ollama-ai-trading-desktop-app", "title": "Show HN: Free Ollama AI Trading Desktop App", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# VaultCharts·desktop charts·AI when you want it\n\nFetch, scan, rank, confirm — like a co-trader on your desk.\n\nIndicators, patterns, and chart tools on your desktop — or ask the AI to pull the numbers. You stay in control. Free to start.\n\n## Chart like TradingView.\n\nAnalyze with AI when you want to.\n\nTwo ways to work the same market data. Run indicators, patterns, and strategies on the chart yourself — or ask the assistant to fetch, scan, and summarize a setup. Same vault, your choice.\n\n### Ask for analysis on a setup\n\nBring your own model. The assistant fetches data, scans structure, and walks through the trade — grounded in what's loaded, not invented prices.\n\n### Work the chart the classic way\n\nIndicators, patterns, drawing tools, and multi-timeframe structure — the same kind of manual technical analysis you'd run in TradingView.\n\n// ASSISTANT\n\n## Built for the decision\n\n— not the monologue.\n\nRefresh a ticker, scan structure, and see which watchlist setups are closest to your entry — from the same charts, notes, and trade plans you already use.\n\n```\n  ┌─────┐\n  │ OHLC│\n  └──▸──┘\n    scan\n  patterns\n```\n\n### Tools, not vibes\n\nBefore you size a trade, pull the series: scan structure, run indicators, refresh a ticker, evaluate the setup against bars already in your vault.\n\n```\n  ┌─┐ ── ┌─┐\n  │W│───│E│\n  └─┘     └─┘\n  watch → entry\n```\n\n### Ideas near entry\n\nKnow which watchlist setups are close to your levels and which are still waiting. Draft cards from proximity and momentum — nothing sticks until you confirm.\n\n```\n  │▁ ▄ █\n  │█ █ █\n  └────────\n  P&L review\n```\n\n### Portfolio & journal\n\nReview holdings, risk, and closed trades from your own plans. Dig into what worked last month without pretending the model knows next week’s open.\n\n```\n  ╔═══╗\n  ║ ◈ ║\n  ╚═══╝\n  your key\n  your model\n```\n\n### Your model, your rules\n\nOpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Switch profiles. Test connection before you trust it.\n\n// HOW IT WORKS\n\n## Three steps.\n\nYou stay in control.\n\n```\n// Models settingsprovider: anthropicmodel:    claude-sonnetkey:      sk-••••••••  ✓ connected\n```\n\n// YOUR MODEL\n\n## Bring any model.\n\nSwitch in one click.\n\nCloud providers or fully local. Test the connection before you trust it.\n\n### OpenAI\n\nCloud\n\n### Anthropic\n\nCloud\n\n### Gemini\n\nCloud\n\n### Grok\n\nCloud\n\n### DeepSeek\n\nCloud\n\n### Qwen\n\nCloud\n\n### Ollama\n\nLocal\n\n### LM Studio\n\nLocal\n\n// TRY SAYING\n\n- ›Which watchlist tickers are closest to entry?\n- ›Analyze AAPL on the daily and evaluate the setup.\n- ›Review my portfolio risk and suggest rebalance ideas.\n- ›Remember I prefer max 1% risk per trade.\n- ›What did my last closed trades teach me?\n- ›Refresh BTC, then scan structure on the daily.\n\n// PRIVACY\n\n## Your keys. Your edge. Your machine.\n\nYour keys never leave your machine as “VaultCharts’ keys.” Analysis is grounded in your vault — not vendor memory of the market.\n\n```\n  ╔═══╗\n  ║ ◈ ║\n  ╚═══╝\n```\n\n### BYOK — not our keys\n\nYou configure the provider. The desktop app talks to that API. VaultCharts does not sell LLM access.\n\n```\n  ┌───┐\n  │ ✓ │\n  └───┘\n```\n\n### Prompts stay local\n\nChat and optional learned memory save on your machine. We don’t store prompts for analytics.\n\n```\n  ◉─◉\n  │ │\n```\n\n### Local models welcome\n\nOllama, LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — zero cloud involvement if you want it.\n\n```\n  │▄ █\n  │█ █\n  └────\n```\n\n### Tools on your OHLC\n\nCalls tools on local series and app state — not the internet’s memory of last week’s prices.\n\nDisclaimer: 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 →](/help/faq/ai-chat)\n\n## Free charts. Your model. Tools that fetch the numbers.\n\nLocal-first trading charts with an agentic assistant. Bring your own key. Keep your edge on device.\n\nFree forever · Mac · Windows · Linux", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-ollama-ai-trading-desktop-app", "canonical_source": "https://www.vaultcharts.com/", "published_at": "2026-07-16 06:00:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 06:25:01.854619+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["VaultCharts", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Gemini", "Grok", "DeepSeek", "Qwen", "Ollama"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-ollama-ai-trading-desktop-app", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-ollama-ai-trading-desktop-app.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-ollama-ai-trading-desktop-app.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-free-ollama-ai-trading-desktop-app.jsonld"}}