Vim for Financial Charts, why hasn't anyone made this?

Question

As developers, we know peak productivity means never touching a mouse.I'm finding that thinkorswim and similar investing tools for retail traders, don't understand or share this ethos.There are shortcuts for trading, but keyboard navigation for charting is primitive compared to what a typical dev IDE or even text editor would include.I'm surprised none of us have implemented a Vim for financial charts. (e.g. scrolling, zooming, changing intervals and timeframes, etc.)Any thoughts as to why?Given the money flowing in finance, it seems like an app that could be very lucrative on its own. (e.g. not as a replacement for apps like think or swim, but as a companion.)

auc · Accepted Answer

If you want to make an app that is very lucrative, the Bloomberg terminal is the one to beat, not thinkorswim. The Bloomberg terminal is the standard in the trading world and it already has many shortcuts. It's been good enough for over 20 years and there is a lot of inertia and lack of need to change."scrolling, zooming, changing intervals and timeframes" is just not something that people need to do at a high frequency, and generally just using the mouse wheel is pretty fast and good enough.

ctvo · Answer

There are already very specialized trading platforms for the professional / semi-professional daytrader. For example, https://www.sierrachart.com. These platforms have all sorts of shortcuts and productivity workflows.Adding Vim (what does this mean when we're not editing text) support to financial charts ... is not a tremendous value add.

jethronethro · Answer

Is there any demand for something like this? If so, what's the market/user base? Are there enough people who would actually or potentially use something like this to make it worth spending the time to create?