Appearance, accent and chart colours

Appearance is three separate choices that stack. The theme is the ground the product sits on, the accent is the highlight colour of the interface, and Dashboard Styles are the colours your data itself is drawn in. They are independent — a light theme with a gold accent and a muted profit colour is a legitimate combination, and nothing about one constrains the others.

Six themes, in two families

Light, Dark, Onyx, Amber, Iris and Slate. Four of them are dark — Dark, Onyx, Amber and Iris — and two are light, Light and Slate. Dark is what you start on. Onyx is the only one whose background is true black; the other three darks are near-blacks with a cast to them, which matters if you are picking one for an OLED screen rather than for the look of it.

The same six are offered in two places — Settings › Appearance, and the Settings drawer the navbar opens — and both drive one piece of state, so the two can never disagree about which theme you are on. There is no “match my system” option: the theme is a choice you make once and it stays made until you change it.

Fifteen accents

Alltra, Indigo, Purple, Pink, Rose, Red, Ruby, Orange, Peach, Gold, Lime, Green, Teal, Sky and Platinum. The accent colours the interface — selected rows, focus rings, the highlights on a control — and never the data. Nothing on a chart changes when you change it.

Dashboard Styles — profit, loss and metric

This is the one that matters most and the one people find last. It sets exactly three values: the profit colour, the loss colour, and the metric colour used for everything that is neither. Every chart tint on every dashboard derives from those three, so changing one moves the whole product rather than a single widget.

Ten presets, or your own three colours

• Alltra Signature — the default, calm and neutral
• Classic Trader — the traditional up-green and down-red
• Ice Blue & Rose, Emerald & Scarlet, Amber & Slate, Indigo & Coral
• Ice & Crimson, Mint & Rosewood, Sapphire & Vermilion, Sky & Magenta

The Custom tab is three colour pickers — Profit Color, Loss Color and Metric / Activity Color — and it is a peer of the presets rather than a fallback from them. The footer underneath states which style is active, reading “Custom” when your trio matches no preset, beside a Reset to Signature button that is disabled while Signature is already what you are using.

Why there is no flash of the wrong theme

Your choices are kept in cookies rather than in browser storage, which is what lets the server render the theme onto the page before it paints. A theme kept in browser storage cannot be read until the page is already on screen, so every navigation would show the default first and correct itself a moment later.

A change is applied to the page and written to the cookie in the same instant, and sent to your account about half a second afterwards. That delay is there because the colour pickers fire continuously while you drag a swatch, and sending each frame would be dozens of writes for one decision.

Because the cookie belongs to the domain rather than to one app, a theme picked in the Tracker is already in force when Portfolio renders. And once the page has loaded, Alltra checks your account’s saved appearance once and applies it only if you have not touched anything since — which is what repairs a browser whose theme was changed on another device.

Hiding the numbers

There is a fourth control and it is not in Settings: the Value selector in the page toolbar, offering Dollar or Private. Private replaces the money figures on the Tracker’s Performance dashboard with dots — the equity and drawdown charts, account growth, win and loss, the weekday and trade-time cards, the recent-trades rows and the four money tiles. It is a screen-sharing control: the shape of an equity curve stays readable while the amounts on it do not. The choice is kept in a cookie and read on the server, so the first paint is already masked rather than showing the real figures for a frame.

Its reach stops there, and that is the part to know before you rely on it. Two widgets on that same dashboard are not covered — the P&L Calendar and the Yearly Calendar draw their own cell figures, which the mask has no way to intercept — and no other page in the product reads the setting at all. Look at what is actually on screen before you share it.