A Robinhood-style portfolio for videos, without the Robinhood

First, the line you don’t cross

There are two, and they’re connected. The first is the brand: no real brokerage’s name, logo or artwork goes on the screen. Pozer doesn’t supply any, and adding one is against our acceptable use policy, which prohibits impersonating a real company or reproducing its trademarks, logos or trade dress. The second is the use: a brokerage screen shown as your real account — to sell a course, a signal group or mentoring, or to get anyone to invest — is prohibited however it’s styled.

A screen wearing a real broker’s name reads as a record of a real account, which is exactly what fake-results schemes depend on. A screen that follows the category but carries your own name reads as what it is: a prop.

What “Robinhood-style” means here

It’s a signpost, not an affiliation. We name the app a template is reminiscent of so you can find the kind of screen you need; the design, the name and every default figure are ours. Pozer’s Robinhood-style trading app — called Ticker in the editor — is drawn to the conventions of a modern commission-free brokerage app. It isn’t connected to Robinhood or to any broker, it holds no money or shares, and it has no market feed.

The conventions that make it read

A viewer recognises a brokerage app in half a second, and not from a logo. It’s the arrangement, and this is the one the template draws:

• One big number. The account’s total value under the title Investing, with a small circled i beside it and search and bell icons above.
• Today’s move beneath it. The amount, then the percentage in brackets, in one colour, with only the word Today left plain.
• A line chart with no axes, and a row of windows under it: LIVE, 1D, 1W, 1M, 3M, YTD and 1Y. On LIVE and 1D a dotted line marks yesterday’s close. The chosen window is a filled pill and the whole row takes the chart’s colour, so on a losing day the buttons turn with the line.
• Buying power as a plain row under the chart, with a chevron at its end. Tap it and the Cash tab opens.
• Holdings: a ticker, a share count, a small line and the position’s value in a filled pill.
• Trade buttons on the stock, not the account. Investing has no Buy. Each holding’s page ends in a trade bar: the account name on the left, then Sell at the bid, outlined in the accent colour, and Buy at the price, filled in it.
• A tab bar of five icons with no labels — Investing, Retirement, Crypto, Cash and Account — with the one you’re on drawn in white. Each opens its screen.
• Gains in the accent colour, losses in orange-red rather than a pure red.

On camera, that arrangement does the explaining. Nobody needs telling that the big number is the account or that a coloured pill is what a holding is worth; the layout says it before the dialogue does. That’s the part the template supplies. The name on the home screen, the icon above it and the colours are yours, and they’re what turn a category of screen into your own app.

Where the resemblance stops

The template is Investing, a page for each holding, and four plain tabs: Retirement, with no account open yet; Crypto, which gathers any coins in your holdings; Cash, built on your buying power; and Account. There’s no search screen, no market lists, no watchlist and no news. The search and bell icons are drawn, not wired, and so are the Deposit, Withdraw and Open an IRA buttons and the Account menu. Orders are market orders and nothing else — no limit prices, no options — and a coin trades through the same order sheet as a stock. If a script needs someone searching for a stock or scrolling a list of the day’s movers, this app can’t play that scene. Plan the shots around Investing, a holding, and the Buy and Sell sheet.

Make it yours: name, icon and colours

Name and icon

The name under the icon comes from App name (home screen), up to 30 characters. The editor suggests Ticker, Position, Bell and Parlay: original names, not near-misses of real brokers’. A near-miss built to be mistaken for a real broker is impersonation all the same. Upload your own icon — something you drew, or a simple mark in your accent colour — or leave it and the editor makes a tile of the name’s initials, in white on your splash colour. Set both before you install, because they’re fixed on the home screen when you add the app; changing them later means deleting it and adding it again.

Inside the app, the Account name — up to 22 characters — sits on each stock’s trade bar and under the title of the Account tab; the home screen is always titled Investing. The default, Individual, is the ordinary label for a personal account and suits most scenes.

Colours

The Accent — a green, #34d399, by default — paints every gain on the screen, the chart on an up day, the chosen window, both trade buttons and the tick on the order receipt. Losses always draw in the same orange-red, whatever the accent. Two choices break that:

• An orange or red accent. Gains and losses end up the same colour, and the screen stops saying which way anything went.
• A dark accent. The rising holdings’ pills, the chosen window, the Buy button and the order sheet’s buttons all print dark text on the accent, and Sell is lettered in it, so a dark one swallows the text.

The Background is near-black, #0a0a0a, and should stay dark, because the text is drawn in white. The Splash / status colour in the editor’s App identity section fills the strip behind the phone’s status bar, so if you change the background, change it to match.

Fill it in like a real account

The rest is the portfolio: up to eight holdings, each with a Ticker, Company, Shares, Price and Day %, and a Buying power figure beside them. The total and the day’s gain are worked out from those, so they can’t disagree with the list, though they can still fail to fit the person holding the phone. The guide to building a fake stock app goes through the numbers field by field.

The defaults use four real companies’ tickers. If you keep real ones, set their prices near where those stocks actually trade. For anything dramatic — a stock up several hundred per cent, a collapse — invent the company instead, for the reasons in the moonshot reaction guide.

Why not a screenshot of the real thing?

A screenshot of a real brokerage app is a picture of a real account — usually yours — with the broker’s branding across it. Its numbers are the ones that account actually holds, and changing them is the classic fake-screenshot edit: a real company’s name on figures it never produced, which is exactly what makes those images useful to scams. A prop built for the job avoids all of it. The numbers are yours to set because they were never anyone’s account, and the branding on the screen is yours because you made it.

Keep it reading as a prop

The better the screen looks, the more it matters what surrounds it. In a skit, the joke does the work. In a format people read as real — a “my portfolio” update, a day in the life, a reaction — say on screen or in the caption that the account is made up. On the free tier, SIMULATED · POZER.COM in small print on every screen and on every order receipt says it for you.

The same goes for how you describe it. Calling it a Robinhood-style app tells people what kind of screen they’re looking at. Calling it Robinhood, or your Robinhood account, tells them something that isn’t true.