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A stock screener filters the whole market down to the companies matching criteria you set – size, sector, valuation, dividend yield, growth – turning thousands of listings into a shortlist you can actually research. The beginner mistake is starting with fifteen filters, which usually returns nothing or returns companies you can’t evaluate. Start with two: a market cap floor to exclude the very smallest and most volatile companies, and a sector you already understand. Then read what comes back. A screener narrows the field; it can’t tell you why a company is cheap. Open the US Stock Screener.

Every tool names its own source and any delay on its own page, rather than relying on a single site-wide statement, because they don’t share one feed. What this means in practice: these tools are built for research and learning on a timescale of days and weeks. They are not built for execution timing, and you shouldn’t use them that way.

No. The charts work here without a TradingView login, and every drawing tool, indicator and timeframe is available without one. A free TradingView account only adds the ability to save your own chart layouts between sessions, which matters if you return to the same annotated chart repeatedly and doesn’t if you don’t. All 18 market tools are free with no account needed. StockEducation is currently funded by its operator. We do not currently receive revenue from brokers, investing platforms or other financial product providers. See how we make money for why no broker or platform pays to appear in any of these tools.

Work backwards from what you’re trying to find out. Which companies are worth researching? The screener. What’s moving today and why does the whole market look red? Heatmaps first, then the breadth dashboard to see whether the move is broad or a few large names. What’s coming that could move a stock I own? The earnings calendar. Are insiders buying or selling? The management trades tracker. Is the crowd fearful or greedy? The Fear and Greed Index.

Market breadth measures how many stocks are participating in a move, rather than how far the index went. An index can rise 1% because a handful of very large companies rose sharply while most stocks fell – the headline number looks healthy and the market underneath it isn’t. Breadth exposes that gap by counting advancers against decliners, new highs against new lows, and how many stocks sit above their moving averages. It’s one of the few pieces of market data that changes what a headline means rather than just restating it. Open the Market Breadth Dashboard.

From SEC Form 4 filings – the mandatory disclosure company officers, directors and large shareholders must file when they buy or sell their own company’s stock, generally within two business days. It’s the official record, not an estimate, and you can read the raw filings yourself on SEC EDGAR. The data is reliable; the interpretation is where people go wrong. Insiders sell for reasons that have nothing to do with their view of the company – tax bills, divorce, diversification, scheduled plans set up months earlier. Treat a filing as a question worth investigating, not an answer.

No, and we don’t teach it. These are research tools built around company fundamentals, market context and calendars, on a timescale of days to years – they aren’t built for intraday execution and the data feeds aren’t specified for it. Beyond fit, the evidence on active day trading by individuals is consistently poor: the widely cited study of the entire Taiwanese market by Barber, Lee, Liu and Odean found the large majority of day traders lost money net of costs, with only a very small fraction profitable consistently. If you want to test short-term ideas, use the simulator first.

Why something happened and what happens next are usually the two things you most want to know. A heatmap shows you the market fell; it can’t tell you whether the cause was a rate expectation, an earnings miss or forced selling. A screener shows you a low P/E; it can’t tell you whether that’s a bargain or a company in decline. A calendar shows you a company reports Thursday; nothing shows you how the market will react. Every tool here states its own limits on its page, and treating those limits as part of the output is the difference between research and guessing.