Getting Started · beginner · 4 min
Widgets Explained
Everything you see inside a workspace is a widget — a self-contained panel that does one job. A chart is a widget. A watchlist is a widget. The news wire, the scanner, the options calculator, the backtest results — all widgets. This is the core idea Visor is built on: instead of a handful of fixed screens, you get a box of tiles and arrange the ones you want.
The gallery
Open the widget gallery (in edit mode) and the tiles are grouped by category:
- Market data — charts, the market overview, order-flow tools.
- Intelligence — the feed, the scanner, news, the daily brief, the globe.
- Trading — the strategy editor, backtests, the journal, alerts, the options and quant tools.
- Utilities — notes, and other odds and ends.
- Learn — this Library.
Each tile in the gallery tells you what it does and how much of the grid it needs. If a widget can't be added — because your workspace is full, or the widget isn't on your tier — the gallery says so plainly rather than letting you add something that won't work.
Every widget instance is independent
You can have several of the same widget in different states. Two charts on two symbols. Three watchlists grouped by theme. Each instance keeps its own settings — its symbol, its indicators, its layout — saved to your account, so your workspaces come back exactly as you left them.
Some settings are per-widget too: you can set an individual panel's density (comfortable or compact) or its colours from its title bar, independent of the global theme.
Tiers and caps
A few widgets, or a few extra copies of a widget, are part of the paid tiers — charts have a per-tier limit, for instance, because each one pulls live market data. Most widgets are unlimited; what the paid tiers mostly buy you is more workspaces. Where a limit applies, the gallery shows it before you hit it.
What to read next
- Following Symbols — how widgets talk to each other.
- Workspaces and Layouts — organising several workspaces.