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One table for three markets: research desk vs chart terminal

How a native Mac research desk differs from chart terminals, broker UIs, and spreadsheets — observation only, not advice.

If you follow names across Shanghai, Hong Kong, and New York, your research stack is probably three metaphors glued together with habit: a chart terminal for drawings, a broker window for tickets, and a spreadsheet for the real watchlist. Crossing markets means crossing apps. Crossing long and short often means another mode or pane. The picture fragments.

Enhanced Global Tool (增强全球工具) rebuilds that middle layer as a research desk: one native Mac table for mainland A-shares, Hong Kong stocks, and U.S. stocks, with long and short visible together, and research scores plus row-level evidence you study yourself. It is not a charting-suite replacement, not a broker, and not a signal product.

What a research desk is (and is not)

A chart terminal is excellent at visual structure — candles, drawings, multi-timeframe layouts. TradingView-class tools earn that job; their strength is charting depth, not one observational table across three venues with direction as a first-class column.

A broker terminal is excellent at execution: accounts, tickets, fills. Research inside an order-centric UI tends to bias the screen toward “what can I click next.”

A spreadsheet is excellent at personal memory — and where cross-market lists go stale: copy-paste, fragile formulas, no shared sense of data health.

A research desk, as we mean it, sits between those tools. It optimizes for observation: markets, direction, scores, and evidence in one place, without pretending to place the trade.

What 0.5.0 actually puts on the table

Early access 0.5.0 of Enhanced Global Tool is a native macOS window — not a pile of browser tabs — built around a single working table:

The interface follows the Mac system language: Simplified Chinese when the system language is Chinese; English otherwise.

Explicit non-features (the product, not fine print)

Some products bury the limits. We treat them as product definition:

If you want a bot that fires tickets, a tipster feed, or a dashboard that cosplays a track record, this is the wrong tool. That is intentional.

When you should still open the other apps

Honesty cuts both ways.

Keep the chart terminal for visual structure. Keep the broker for execution. Keep a spreadsheet for a private notebook no vendor should own.

Enhanced Global Tool is for the middle question: can I see A-shares, Hong Kong, and U.S. names — long and short — in one observational table, with scores and evidence I can interrogate, without an order ticket staring back?

Our Compare page spells out that workflow contrast without pretending other tools are useless: compare page · 中文对比.

Early access, pricing, and what the buttons do today

Version 0.5.0 is early access. Pricing for the workspace as it exists today is listed on the site: $12/month or $99/year. That is a price for the current desk — not a promise about a future 1.0, and not a promise about results.

Site buy buttons currently scroll to the pricing section (#pricing) while merchant checkout finishes connecting. They do not charge yet. When checkout is enabled, the same pages will say so clearly; until then, treat the site as the source of truth for status.

Who this is for — and not for

For self-directed Mac users who research across regions and want one observational surface, with scores and evidence they can argue with.

Not for anyone seeking picks, signals, automated trading, or a promised hit rate; not for Windows/Linux in this release; not for anyone who wants the software to act as an adviser.

Next steps

Product page: https://enhancedglobal.app/ · 中文 zh.html

Workflow compare: compare.html · compare-zh.html

Pricing is listed on the home page; buy buttons currently scroll to #pricing and do not charge while checkout finishes connecting.

Questions about the research workflow (not ticker tips): [email protected]

Nothing on this page is investment advice. Enhanced Global Tool is a research and observation workspace only. It does not place orders, trade automatically, report win rates, or issue stock picks or signals.