RIBN is a Chrome extension that pins a thin ticker bar to the top of every page you visit — NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX in real time, with sparklines, click-to-expand charts, a news drawer, server-side price alerts and a built-in trade journal. Free forever; Pro for £5.99 a month.
Most retail traders do not stare at a charting platform all day. They have a watchlist, a job, and forty tabs open. RIBN is for that.
A thin ribbon at the top of every tab — your watchlist, scrolling. The page below is offset to match, so site headers (Twitter, Gmail, GitHub, Notion) keep working. It is a permanent slice of screen, not an overlay covering the page.
A panel slides down beneath the symbol you clicked: chart, day range, key stats, last five headlines, earnings countdown, sentiment, alerts. Most ticker extensions redirect you to Yahoo Finance and lose your place. This one does not.
Price, percent and 52-week alerts that never silently expire. They fire from our servers, so they trigger when your laptop is shut, when Chrome is closed, when you are at lunch. Email or webhook, your choice. The bar is the eyes; the alerts are the ears.
The launch build covers US-listed stocks, ETFs and indices in real time on Pro. Crypto, FX and commodities are on the roadmap — we will not show them as live until they are.
Tagged Live if it ships at launch, Pro if it ships at launch and is paid, and Soon if it is on the roadmap. We would rather call it out than fake it.
Up to 30 US stocks, ETFs and indices on the bar at once — drag to reorder, three groups (e.g. Core, Day-trades, Long-term).
Each symbol gets a 60-tick mini-chart on the bar, so you see momentum at a glance without opening anything.
Set %, absolute, or 52-week alerts and they stay armed until they trigger or you delete them. No 60-day silent expiry.
Coverage from 04:00 to 20:00 ET, with a session badge so you always know which book the print came from.
Chart · day range · stats · five latest headlines · earnings dot · alerts — all anchored to the ticker, in-page.
A 32-pixel slide-down headline reel filtered to the symbols you actually own or watch. Auto-dismiss in 25s.
Beat / miss sparkline, BMO / AMC, EPS estimates, countdown badges — to dodge IV crush, not get caught by it.
Strategy tags, win-rate, profit factor, P&L by hour-of-day. Broker CSV import for Schwab, Fidelity, IBKR.
Watchlist as a treemap, weighted by market cap or equally — Inferno colour ramp, live during US hours.
Top movers from 04:00 ET, computed from a real US equities feed and volume-filtered. Not a screen of Bloomberg.
Limit-up / limit-down halt detection from the SIP feed, with the reason code and resume time when published.
Mention velocity z-score across r/stocks, r/wallstreetbets, r/investing — and the StockTwits bull / bear ratio.
Add holdings; the bar shows your daily delta against SPX, plus per-position P&L in your panel. No broker auth — CSV in.
Yield, ex-date countdown and pay-date in the panel — for the long-term investor, not just the day-trader.
Tier 1 (Reuters / FT / Bloomberg / Dow Jones), 2 (CNBC / MarketWatch / Yahoo), 3 (blogs) — toggle off the noise.
Use Chrome's Side Panel instead of the top bar — better for ultrawides and three-monitor desk setups.
Hide the bar on specific sites, on a schedule, or with Cmd+Shift+H. Nothing should follow you into a Zoom call.
One-click clone for Mag 7, FAANG, Dow 30, Nasdaq-100 leaders, Russell small-caps, dividend aristocrats.
"Watch breakout above $185, stop $178." Markdown, syncs across devices, never sent to anyone.
Watchlists and portfolio in and out as CSV. Auto-detects Schwab, Fidelity and IBKR statement formats.
Cmd+Shift+R to toggle the bar, "/" to search any US-listed symbol, "?" for help, Esc to close panels.
Streamed from Kraken and Coinbase, 24/7. Funding rate and open-interest deltas in the panel.
EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY and the rest of the G10. Live during FX hours, with session shading.
Gold, silver, WTI, Brent, copper, natural gas — front-month futures via Twelve Data.
Email, webhook, push. Alerts fire even when the browser is closed — they live on our backend, not in the tab.
High-impact US macro: CPI, PPI, NFP, FOMC, retail sales — with a T-60s countdown banner.
No trial — the free tier is the trial. It works, but it polls every sixty seconds. Pro switches the same bar to real-time WebSocket streaming the moment Stripe confirms.
VAT-inclusive · billed in GBP · Stripe handles checkout · 14-day refund window.
Coverage, pricing, plumbing.
A real-time US stock ticker pinned to the top of every browser tab — NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX, plus ETFs and indices, plus the supporting features (alerts, news drawer, click-to-expand panel, journal, portfolio P&L). Crypto, FX and commodities are on the roadmap and labelled "coming soon" on this page until they ship.
Real-time market data costs us money per tick — that is the honest answer. Free runs on a 60-second refresh, which is plenty for swing setups and a watchlist glance. Every ticker shows when it last updated, so you are never guessing how stale the number is. If you trade intraday, Pro is built for you.
It plays nicely with X, Gmail, YouTube, GitHub, NYT, Reddit, Linear, Notion and Google Docs — site headers stay visible, layouts stay intact. If a site does misbehave, you can hide the bar on that domain in two clicks, and we publish a compatibility list we keep current.
TradingView is brilliant — for charting. RIBN is for the rest of your day, when you are not on TradingView. The bar puts your watchlist on every tab you already have open, alerts you when something moves, and lets you click a symbol without losing your place. It complements a charting tool; it does not replace one.
No. Set a price, percent or 52-week alert and it stays armed until it triggers or you delete it. Alerts fire from our servers, so they work even when Chrome is closed and your laptop is shut.
Yes. The extension never holds an API key, and we never see your broker login or any positions you do not paste in yourself. The journal and watchlist live on our database, encrypted in transit, and you can export or delete them any time.
You stay on Pro until the end of the billing period. After that the bar falls back to the 60-second free tier — your first 10 watchlist symbols stay on the bar, the rest are kept on our side and restored the moment you re-subscribe. Your trade journal is never deleted.
It is less than half a TradingView Plus subscription, and roughly half the cost of a single broker data add-on. We picked a flat monthly that is a coffee-and-a-half a month and lets us keep adding features without raising it. Cancel any time — there is no contract.
Your US watchlist is already there. Real-time on Pro, sixty-second polling on free, and out of your way either way.