Choosing a Theme
TradeEntry ships four colour themes. Pick whichever suits your screen, your lighting, and how long you sit in front of it.
Theme selection is part of the v2.0 release. Until then the interface uses the Midnight palette.
Switching themes
Click the palette icon in the top-right of the navigation bar. Hover a theme to preview it live on the page behind the menu; click to keep it.
You can also set it under Profile → Appearance.
The four themes
Midnight
The classic TradeEntry look - deep blue-black panels with a yellow accent. This is the default and what the platform has always looked like.
Best for: long sessions in a dim room.
Deep Ocean
Navy backgrounds with teal and cyan accents. Softer and cooler than Midnight, with less contrast between panels and background.
Best for: people who find Midnight a little stark but still want a dark interface.
Carbon Amber
Near-black with amber accents and monospaced numbers - a traditional trading-terminal look.
Best for: dense numeric screens like the option chain, and anyone who prefers a high-contrast terminal aesthetic.
Daylight
A genuine light theme with white panels, blue accents, and darkened red and green so they stay readable against white.
Best for: bright rooms, daytime use, and printing or screenshotting pages to share.
Where your choice is stored
If you are signed in, your theme is saved to your account and follows you to any device you sign in on.
If you are browsing as a visitor, it is remembered in your browser only.
On your very first visit, TradeEntry picks a starting theme from your operating system's light or dark setting - Midnight if your system is set to dark, Daylight if light.
Charts follow the theme
Candlestick charts, equity curves and every other chart recolour immediately when you switch. Gridlines, axes, tooltips and series colours are all part of the theme, so nothing is left looking out of place.
Up and down colours are tuned per theme rather than being shared, so red and green stay readable on both dark and light backgrounds.
The greens and reds used in Daylight are darker than in the dark themes. This is deliberate - the brighter shades that read well on a near-black background fail legibility standards on white.