HOW TO USE SIGNALS
A practical guide to getting the most from the app. This page is kept up to date as features change.
1. CREATING AN ACCOUNT
1Everything works without signing in. Your watchlists and settings are saved on this device.
2Tap the account icon in the header, then choose Sign in.
3Once signed in, your UK and US watchlists plus your alert history sync to the cloud automatically. Sign in on another device to pick up where you left off.
4If your local watchlist and cloud watchlist disagree, a merge dialog appears so you can combine both, keep this device, or keep the cloud copy.
2. ADDING TICKERS
1Open the UK or US page from the top menu. Each market has its own watchlist.
2Type a ticker symbol such as SHEL.L for London-listed Shell or AAPL for Apple, then press add.
3Each stock shows a 7-day sparkline, current price, percentage move and a BUY / HOLD / SELL verdict.
4Remove a stock at any time with the button. Your watchlist is private to your account or device.
3. READING VERDICTS
Every verdict comes from a scoring model that mixes price signals (7-day momentum, moving-average crossover, RSI, volatility) with reported company financials.
The price side looks well beyond the last week. It also scores the three-month trend — whether the price sits above or below its three-month average and how far it has travelled over that period — so a single noisy week cannot swing a verdict on its own.
Each share is also compared with its own market: London shares against the FTSE 100, US shares against the S&P 500. A rise only counts as strength if it beats the index, so a verdict reflects genuine outperformance rather than a rising market lifting everything. Both index levels are shown live at the top of the UK and US watchlists and on the Dashboard, with today's and the 7-day move, so you can see what each share is being measured against.
Trading volume is checked too. A move backed by heavier-than-usual trading is treated as more reliable than the same move on thin volume.
The financial part uses each company's actual published results, not estimates: earnings and revenue growth, how often it beat forecasts over the last four quarters, debt-to-equity and the current ratio, profit margin, return on equity and free cash flow as a share of revenue.
For US listings, the quarterly revenue, profit and earnings per share shown on a stock's page are taken straight from the company's own filings with the US regulator (the 10-Q and 10-K), with the filing form and date shown beside each quarter. Analyst forecasts are still shown so you can see the beat or miss. London listings use reported company figures from the market data provider.
Valuation is judged against live peers — the app measures the real price-to-earnings of every company it tracks in the same sector and compares against that median, so the yardstick moves with the market instead of being a fixed assumption.
Each indicator scores between −2 and +2, is multiplied by your weights, and summed. A score above your buy threshold with enough confidence gives BUY; below the sell threshold gives SELL; anything in between is HOLD.
A high score alone is not enough for a BUY. A buy quality gate also requires the company to be growing its earnings and to trade at a sensible valuation against its sector peers at the same time. A share that is simply running up in price while profits shrink, or one priced far above its peers, is shown as HOLD instead, with a short line on the Dashboard saying why. You can loosen or switch off the gate in Settings under "Buy quality gate".
Tap any ticker to open its detail page. You will see a full indicator breakdown, dividend information (ex-dividend and payment dates, amount per share), the previous four quarterly results, the next results date, and a price chart with 7-day, 30-day and 1-year views.
The detail page also has a verdict timeline covering the last year: every day the call changed (for example HOLD → BUY), the price that day, the confidence, how far the price moved before the next change and how long the call was held. Tap any change to see the company's latest published results at that moment — revenue, profit, earnings per share and whether they beat or missed forecasts. Changes that landed within two weeks of a results announcement are marked “after results”.
The bell in the header shows your alert history. Whenever a stock on either watchlist changes verdict (for example HOLD → BUY), a toast pops up at the top of the screen. Swipe it away, tap the close button, or wait a few seconds and it disappears on its own.
4. USING THE ASSISTANT
1Open Assistant from the second menu bar and ask for ideas.
2The assistant scans UK and US markets for stocks that score a strong BUY under your current settings and that you do not already follow.
3Each suggestion is a complete analysis: price, sector, P/E, debt-to-equity, dividend yield, earnings growth, margin, EPS beat history and the model's conviction.
4Add any pick to your UK or US watchlist with one tap. If you are signed in, the conversation is saved to your account so you can continue it on another device.
5. ADJUSTING SETTINGS
1Go to Settings from the second menu bar.
2Slide the weights for 7-day momentum, the long-term trend, three-month momentum, beating the index, volume confirmation, trend crossover, RSI, valuation, earnings & growth, debt and profitability. Higher values make that factor matter more in the final score.
3Set your own BUY and SELL score thresholds and the minimum confidence before a verdict is downgraded to HOLD. Raise the assistant conviction floor to only see its strongest ideas.
4Under Buy quality gate, keep the tick box on to require earnings growth and a reasonable valuation before anything is called a BUY, and use the two sliders to set how strict each requirement is. Turning it off lets price action alone trigger a BUY.
5Use Suggested from the backtest to replay the last six months for the stocks you track. It searches for the weights and thresholds that would have performed best over that period, shows the return they would have produced against your current settings and buy and hold, lists exactly what would change, and applies them only when you tap Apply. Past performance is not a prediction — treat it as a starting point you can still adjust.
6Changes apply immediately to the watchlist, the Dashboard , the backtest and the assistant. Use Reset to return to the defaults.
6. TRACKING YOUR OWN TRADES
1Open Portfolio from the second menu bar.
2Record a trade with the ticker, choose London or US so short codes like AV are matched to the right listing, then set whether you bought or sold, the number of shares, the price each and the date.
3Each holding shows the real company name and its market (London or US), your average price, the current price, your gain or loss in money and percent, and the model's current verdict beside it — so you can see when the model says SELL on something you still hold.
4The Trade performance panel at the top counts how many of your trades are in profit, and how often the verdict the model would have shown on the day you traded actually proved right on the price move since. Only trades where that move can be measured count towards the percentage, and wrong calls count against it.
5Tap a holding to see a chart of the last six months: the price line, the model's position over the same days as a dashed line, and a dot on every day you traded (green bought, red sold). Below it is every trade behind the holding: the money made or lost so far, the price move since, the verdict that day and whether you traded with it or against it. You can delete any entry. Selling everything moves it to Closed, where your realised profit is kept. Signed out the journal stays on this device; signed in it syncs to your account.
Signals are generated from delayed public prices and reported company financials. They are information, not financial advice — always do your own research before investing. See Terms and Privacy.