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Protection

Pump and Dump Schemes

Promotion of a thinly traded security by holders who intend to sell into the demand they create. The structural features are visible before the promotion arrives.

Intermediate4 min read
Protection

Unsolicited Offers and Cold Approaches

An approach you did not initiate is a category with its own base rate. The forms change constantly and the structure underneath does not.

Foundations4 min read
Protection

Promotion and Disclosure Rules

Anyone paid to promote a security must disclose it. The rule is old, it applies on social platforms, and the disclosure is usually present and unread.

Intermediate3 min read
Protection

Complaints, Arbitration and Recourse

Most brokerage disputes go to arbitration rather than to court, because the account agreement said so. Knowing the process before it is needed changes what evidence exists.

Intermediate3 min read
Protection

Elder Financial Exploitation

A category with its own rules, its own reporting channels and its own protective mechanisms, including the ability for a firm to place a temporary hold.

Foundations3 min read
The PlatformPremium

Deep Dive: Reading the Company File

Ten cards covering one company: the filed statements, who owns it, how it trades, and its listing record. This is the research surface for a single ticker.

Intermediate5 min read
The PlatformPremium

Deep Dive 2: Ranking the Market

The same data turned outward. Ten cards that rank, screen and search the whole market rather than describing one company.

Advanced4 min read
The Platform

Charting: The Chart Analyzer

A chart with the company's research attached to it. The per-symbol view pairs price with company, technicals, events, ownership and filings in one place.

Foundations4 min read
The PlatformPremium

Pro Charting: The Professional Workspace

The chart as the whole surface, with drawings, styles, timeframes and saved layouts. Built for working on a chart rather than reading about a company.

Intermediate4 min read
The Platform

The Heatmap and the 9-Box

The whole index on one screen, sized by weight and coloured by move. It answers breadth questions faster than any list can.

Foundations4 min read
The Platform

Market Sectors

Performance by sector and industry group, with the members of each. It is relative strength applied across the whole classification.

Intermediate4 min read
The PlatformTools

Corporate Events

What companies actually did, market-wide: results, guidance, launches, regulatory decisions, deals, buybacks, dividends and insider filings, each with an upcoming and a completed view.

Intermediate4 min read
The PlatformTools

Institutional Ownership and Flows

13F holdings aggregated by ticker and by manager, with quarter-over-quarter changes, plus fund and ETF ownership. Powerful, and only if the filing's limits are understood.

Advanced4 min read
The Platform

The Premium Scanner

Three ways to narrow the market: dynamic filters you build, preset filters we maintain, and MAD Setups. A scan produces a shortlist, never a conclusion.

Intermediate4 min read
The Platform

The Market Dashboard

The board that answers what is happening right now: indices, movers, breadth screens, macro, news and the heatmap in one view.

Foundations4 min read
The PlatformTools

The Watchlist and the News Desk

Watchlists define what you follow; the news desk is the wire filtered by it. Together they are the daily surface.

Foundations4 min read
The PlatformAlerts

Reading a Premium Alert

What an alert contains, what each part means, and the compliance frame that governs all of it: this is educational analysis, not a recommendation.

Foundations4 min read
The PlatformAlerts

MAD Setups and the Playbook

The setups we focus on, what each one looks like, and where nightly detection surfaces them. The playbook is the reference; the detection is the sweep.

Intermediate4 min read
The PlatformAlerts

How Setup Detection Decides

The methodology behind the nightly sweep: what it measures, why it runs on daily bars after the close, and what it deliberately does not attempt.

Advanced4 min read
The PlatformAlerts

How Alert Performance Is Measured

What the performance record counts, how it is calculated, and the reasons any published record has to be read with the methodology beside it.

Advanced5 min read
The Platform

Real Time and Delayed on Your Plan

Which surfaces run on real-time data and which run delayed depends on the products held. This is what the delay affects and what it does not.

Foundations4 min read
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