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Real-Time Trading Dashboard

Build a live trading dashboard with real-time price updates, portfolio tracking, and performance metrics.

Educational example only. Not investment advice. Test on paper or sandbox accounts. You are responsible for how you run it and for each data provider's terms. Code and data are provided "as is" and may contain errors. Terms & Disclaimer

Tech Stack

Next.jsReactTailwind CSSWebSocketRechartsAlpha Vantage API

Steps

  1. 1

    Set up Next.js project with TypeScript and Tailwind

  2. 2

    Create WebSocket connection to real-time price feed (Alpha Vantage, Polygon, or Binance)

  3. 3

    Build reusable chart components with Recharts or Plotly

  4. 4

    Implement portfolio tracking: fetch positions and calculate P&L

  5. 5

    Add real-time price updates and percentage change indicators

  6. 6

    Create performance metrics: daily/weekly returns, Sharpe ratio, max drawdown

  7. 7

    Deploy to Vercel with environment variables for API keys

Tags

dashboardreal-timenextjswebsocket