I Built a $197/mo Trading Terminal as ONE Free HTML File ($0 Stack)

Benzinga Pro's Essential plan is $197 a month. Unusual Whales is $50. A Bloomberg terminal is over $2,000. These are the tools that give traders an edge — live headlines, smart-money signals, momentum screeners, an AI analyst. So I asked a stupid question: how much of that could I rebuild, for free? The answer turned out to be ONE file. One HTML file, 118 KB, no server, no database, no monthly bill. In this video I show you the real thing actually running — then take it apart piece by piece and show you exactly how a $0 app pulls live market data, and where it honestly breaks. WHAT'S INSIDE THE BUILD: • One static HTML file — no React, no build step, no backend, nothing to crash at 3am • Live market data for free — public RSS feeds (WSJ, CNBC, Google News, Reddit) pulled through a free CORS proxy, no API key, no account, no cost • In-browser signal logic — sentiment filtering, a momentum screener, smart-money detection. Simple, transparent rules — no black box • A real AI analyst — one call to Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite for a clean read on any ticker • A $1,000 paper-trading engine — auto-trades, trade history, P&L, all persisted in localStorage with zero backend • Free hosting — one static file, $0/mo forever AND WHERE IT BREAKS (the honest part nobody shows you): • Free proxies are rate-limited and can go down • RSS is delayed by minutes — fine for context, useless for scalping • The signals are heuristics — keyword scoring is NOT alpha and does not predict price • The trading is SIMULATED — paper money in a sandbox. Nothing here is financial advice. Strip out the trading and what you really have is a template: free feeds → free proxy → in-browser logic → an AI model → one static file hosted free. That same $0 stack works for almost anything you'd want to monitor. FREE: I packaged the entire recipe into a one-page blueprint — the exact data sources, the proxy trick, the AI wiring, and the free deploy steps. Comment SQUAWK and I'll send it, or grab it here: https://hyperautomationlabs.co/free/z... New honest builds every week: ▶ YouTube:    / @hyperautomationlabs1045   📘 Facebook:   / hyperautomationlabs   📸 Instagram:   / hyperautomationlabs   One file. Live data. Zero dollars. ⚠️ Paper-trading only. Educational content — not financial advice. #tradingtools #buildinpublic #ai #aitools #gemini #webdev #htmlcss #javascript #stockmarket #fintech #benzinga #unusualwhales #zerodollarstack #indiehacker #vibecoding