SDE SOFTWARE

Focused tools for active traders.

Focused tools built by a trader, for traders. No bloat. No subscriptions to features you'll never use. Just software that does its job.

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Now on the Bookmap Marketplace

VPOC Migration Pro is live.

Real-time VPOC migration tracker with Developing VPOC, Naked & Tested classification, and voice alerts — approved and listed on Bookmap's official addon marketplace. $25/month via Bookmap Store.

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AMT ForeSight Beta · free to try

AMT ForeSight

Probabilities, not predictions. Auction Market Theory levels framed live inside Bookmap — prior-day & overnight levels, the live Initial Balance state machine, and multi-day naked VPOCs. The free tier includes the full stats framework; Pro draws it on your chart and adds custom & HTF levels.

Requires Rithmic at first release. ForeSight reads ticks directly from your Rithmic data feed while running inside Bookmap. Using Bookmap's own data feeds will require Bookmap's developer approval of the addon — that review is pending.
  • Free: stats window, day/open-type + bias, hit rates & VWAP
  • Free: live IBC / IBF / IB30 Initial Balance state machine
  • Pro: on-chart level lines, per-level styling, Session Alarms, custom & HTF levels
  • Pro+: VPOC migration tracking + multi-feed Cloud Notes
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Pipper — trade projection HUD Beta · free to try

Pipper

See exactly where your trade lands before you commit. A display-only Bookmap HUD that draws your entry, stop, and scaled targets — plus a gold line showing where the trade becomes risk-neutral. It never touches your orders.

🔒 Read-only by design. Pipper has no order-routing path — it never sends, places, or modifies a trade. It only draws and reads.
  • Free projection HUD — entry, stop & scaled targets (up to 2 contracts)
  • Risk-neutral guide line + green/red status badge
  • Pro: automatic live-position tracking, slippage-aware
  • Pro: captures each trade for your journal (HindSight / TraderLab 101)
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BMBridge RETIRED

BMBridge

Brought CSV trading levels to Bookmap's Cloud Notes — with AMT decision-tree intelligence, opening-context detection, hit tracking, session analytics, and a spoken session journal.

No longer in active development — its capabilities live on in AMT ForeSight. Existing downloads remain available as-is, unsupported.
  • SierraChart, TradeStation, OptimusFLOW, IB & more
  • Up to 12 feeds with mirror system
  • Group toggles, templates, scheduled snapshots
  • Time-based level activation — RTH, ETH, overnight
  • 100% local — your data never leaves your machine
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HindSight — Precision Through Reflection COMING SOON

HindSight

Precision through reflection. A trading journal built for serious self-analysis — log every trade, review what actually happened, and turn yesterday's session into tomorrow's edge.

  • Detailed trade logging with custom fields
  • Performance analytics and pattern tracking
  • Visual breakdowns of your edge
  • Built for futures and active traders
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Free Tools

Free tools for Bookmap traders.

Lightweight Bookmap utilities — on-chart drawing, Cloud Notes feeds, and standalone window addons. No sign-up, no license, no strings attached.

Two free drawing tools, side by side: A Simple Drawing Tool draws Buyers/Sellers zones with three hotkeys — dead simple. A Better Drawing Tool is the full palette — lines, rays, rectangles, zones, notes, arrows, a price-range measure, and long/short position tools. Both completely free; install side by side.

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FREE BMBridge Lite

BMBridge Lite

Serves custom price notes to Bookmap Cloud Notes via local HTTP. Two feeds, color templates, system tray. Free.

Feature-complete — stable and free to use as-is. For auto levels, stats, and alarms, see AMT ForeSight.
  • Manual notes with colors, alignment, optional lines
  • Up to 2 concurrent feeds with per-feed symbol override
  • Color templates, reorder, clone, enable/disable
  • Live polling monitor + tray integration
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FREE Edges & Ledges

Edges & Ledges

Where volume built. Where it didn't.

Finds and marks high and low volume nodes (HVN / LVN) on your Bookmap chart — served through Bookmap's own Cloud Notes. Pick your session, copy one URL, done.

  • Both HVN and LVN detection in one add-on
  • Served through Bookmap's own Cloud Notes
  • Pick your session, copy one URL into Bookmap
  • Replaces the separate HVN Marker and LVN Marker
Download the jar → Quick Start (PDF) ↓
v1.3.9 · free
Using Bookmap data (BookmapData)?
↓ BookmapData edition →
v1.3.9 · authorized by Bookmap
For traders on Bookmap's own realtime BookmapData feed. A separate static download, kept off the auto-updater — same Edges & Ledges, in the build Bookmap authorizes to run live on the BookmapData feed.
Created by SDES.DEV · completely free · no key, no account · formerly the HVN/LVN Markers.
A Simple Drawing Tool logo — green Buyers and red Sellers zone bands from a cursor, with the wordmark and tagline Point. Press. Drawn. Beta · Free

A Simple Drawing Tool

Draws Buyers/Sellers zones on your Bookmap chart with three hotkeys. Point at a price, press a key, done.

Want more tools? See A Better Drawing Tool →

Real screenshot: A Simple Drawing Tool running in Bookmap — green Buyers and red Sellers zones drawn on the live heatmap, with the floating zones window listing every zone.
REAL SCREENSHOT — A Simple Drawing Tool zones live in Bookmap · click to enlarge
7400 7380 7360 7340 7320 7300 S 7390.00 — Sellers B 7350.00 — Buyers extends right — forever → 7 NUMPAD · PRESSED ABDT Zones · ES B 7350.00 · 28px S 7390.00 ILLUSTRATION
ILLUSTRATION — point at a price, press a key, the zone springs right
Download the jar → Quick Start Quick Start (PDF) ↓
v0.2.11B · free
Using Bookmap data (BookmapData)?
↓ BookmapData edition →
v0.2.10B · authorized by Bookmap
For traders on Bookmap's own realtime BookmapData feed. A separate static download, kept off the auto-updater — same A Simple Drawing Tool, in the build Bookmap authorizes to run live on the BookmapData feed.
Created by SDES.DEV · completely free · no key, no account.
A Better Drawing Tool logo — a mini chart with the full kit (zone bands, a ray, a rectangle), the wordmark in a blue-to-teal-to-green gradient, and the tagline The full toolkit. Beta · Free

A Better Drawing Tool

The full toolkit.

The full drawing tool for Bookmap — a floating palette of horizontal lines, rays, rectangles, Buyers/Sellers zones, text notes, arrows, a price-range measure, and long/short position tools with R:R. Mark up your chart like a charting platform.

Just need quick zones? See A Simple Drawing Tool →

A Better Drawing Tool running in Bookmap — the floating palette docked on the left, with a yellow rectangle, green Buyers and red Sellers zones, a text note, horizontal lines, up and down arrows, and a long position tool showing R:R 1.48.
REAL SCREENSHOT — A Better Drawing Tool in action: a note, horizontal lines, Buyers/Sellers zones, and a long position with R:R · click to enlarge
A Better Drawing Tool's floating palette — Select, Lines (H-Line, V-Line, Ray), Shapes, Arrows (Up/Down), Measurers (Range, Long, Short), Buyers and Sellers zones, Notes, Delete, plus color and style controls.
The floating tool palette.
  • Floating tool palette — lines, rays, rectangles, zones, notes
  • Arrows, a price-range measure, and long/short position tools with R:R
  • Per-object color, sticky tools, an objects window
  • Completely free — no key, no account; no personal data is collected
Download the jar → Quick Start (PDF) ↓
v0.2.8B · free
Using Bookmap data (BookmapData)?
↓ BookmapData edition →
v0.2.8B · authorized by Bookmap
For traders on Bookmap's own realtime BookmapData feed. A separate static download, kept off the auto-updater — same A Better Drawing Tool, in the build Bookmap authorizes to run live on the BookmapData feed.
Created by SDES.DEV · completely free · no key, no account.
Free Tools · Community

Free resources for traders.

Shared in the traders-helping-traders spirit — free to use, no sign-up, nothing gated.

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Free · web tool

Economic Calendar

A curated schedule of market-moving events (FOMC, CPI, NFP, ECB, and more). Each entry shows its scheduled time, region, category, and importance. Runs in your browser, no sign-up.

US · EU · GB · JP · CN · read it as an agenda or by month · free to use
Open the calendar →
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Free · open source-available

TraderLab 101

A complete trading journal for ES/MES futures traders. Preflight checklists, pre-market levels, trade logging with scale-outs, missed trade tracking, 15+ analytics charts, and a full Auction Market Theory methodology reference. Single HTML file — runs locally, zero dependencies, your data never leaves your machine.

v2.3.15 · PolyForm Noncommercial license · download + quick start on GitHub (the README is the manual)
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Free · study reference

Tom's Lab

A free desktop study library — a searchable encyclopedia of Tom B's publicly shared teaching (the traders-lab Discord channel, his published reference PDFs, and public YouTube uploads). Keyword, semantic, visual chart-image, and conversational search over a single local index. Not a trading tool or signals service — a study reference.

Tom's Lab is an independent third-party project. Tom B has not reviewed or endorsed this tool.
Windows 10/11 · ~225 MB installer + ~10.5 GB data pack · ≈40 GB free disk recommended
Download (Google Drive) · large ~10.7 GB → Manual + source (GitHub)
Paid 1-on-1 Help

Stuck? Book a session with the developer.

Setup, troubleshooting, Bookmap Cloud Notes workflow — video call + screen share for anything related to SDES tools. $150/hr, 1-hour minimum, evenings and weekends US Eastern Time.

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About SDES

Built by a trader who needed better tools.

SDES is a one-person software studio run by an active futures trader. Every product starts from the same place — something I needed that didn't exist in the form I wanted, so I built it.

The tools are tested the only way that matters: on live sessions, every trading day. No venture capital, no feature committees, no roadmaps written by people who've never placed a trade — just software that works, maintained by the person who uses it.

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