Crash Course

The ConvexValue Terminal is like a web-browser (Chrome, Safari, Brave, etc.). In fact - you can think about it as a browser enhanced and optimized for options analytics.

Learning how to use The ConvexValue Terminal is simple. Similar to learning how to use a web-browser: you do it once and it becomes second nature. Since you already know how to use a web-browser, there are only 5 enhancements that make The ConvexValue Terminal more powerful than regular browsers. They are listed below. They are also covered in the YouTube Crash Course.

1. Modules instead of Websites

In a web-browser you browse websites. This is great when you want to get lost in the world wide web. It is not great when you need clarity, focus, and organization.

In ConvexValue you cannot browse the “word wide web”. You can only browse the curated selection of ConvexValue websites. We call these websites modules.

They also differ from regular websites in that modules are extremely light, to-the-point, and all share a uniform control panel.

This is because regular websites are largely concerned with keeping you there, so they will bloat it with either ads, extracurricular content, or just extra features that you don’t need. For example: why would you have to download 100 ads and articles when you only what to know whether AAPL has more Calls than Puts?

2. Commands instead of URLs

There are two ways you navigate the internet: first, when you know where you want to go you enter the URL. For example: if you want to go to youtube you enter youtube.com, or gmail.com to check our email. Alternatively, you search for something on Google and then click on one of the links that come up.

In ConvexValue, if you know where you want to go you enter the command (for example joy AAPL oi). If you don’t know, you enter command home and navigate into the module you want by clicking on it.

Commands are useful for the same reason URLs are useful. Just like you can share the URL of an article on the internet, in ConvexValue you can share the command and your friends can see exactly what you are seeing.

3. Uniform Control Panel ⚙️

Websites are all entirely different. ConvexValue modules are all unified by a single way of controlling them - the Control Panel.

You can access the control panel by clicking the ⚙️ to the right of the command bar. This opens a control panel that lets you fully customize all modules.

This way it doesn’t matter if it is the first time you explore a module - you can just click on the Cog and configure it with a familiar interface.

4. Split-Panes

In regular web-browsers you can only see a single website on any given tab. Websites are designed to occupy your entire screen. To see multiple websites you have to open multiple tabs or multiple windows - which isn’t very ergonomic.

In ConvexValue we give you the freedom to craft the view that you want. This is done via splitting panes.

In ConvexValue you can split the panes of your tab to create a dashboard view and look at multiple modules at a time.

Combined with the to-the-point nature of modules - this allows you to truly explore the market with focus and clarity.

The result of the previous 4 enhancements is that you can create split-pane dashboards with curated financial analytics modules. It doesn’t stop there.

The ConvexValue Terminal lets you save your dashboards, group them into folders, and it lets you explore the dashboards others have created and clone them into your repertoire.

The “left-pane” on The ConvexValue Terminal (located when you click the button on the top left corner) opens up to show you all of your saved dashboards as well as a directory of public dashboards others have created. You can search for other dashboards by the author’s username and you can clone the entire workspace, a dashboard, or just inspect which commands were used.

This opens a collaborative workflow that lets you learn and share.

What’s Next

Now that we’ve seen here conceptually how The ConvexValue Terminal is really just like a web-browser enhanced and optimized for options analytics, and how that we’ve seen in the YouTube Crash Course how to operate all these features - it is time for the good stuff: Options Analytics.