Heat Map & Spectrum Overview
For Example: Clicking on “Financial Services” industry portion on the map of the S&P 500, then “Credit Services” will yield another map of 8 companies: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc. Clicking on any of those boxes will display the Stock info at a glance. Notice the Navigation Icons such at The Score as well as those to add to a Watchlist or send to Research.
The “Spectrum” View maps the sectors within the Index, with the number of companies in (parenthesis) by the performance by the time-frame selected. You can drill-down by selecting the sector group, then industry and company.
Note: By selecting the “Go Big” Icon, , in the upper-right corner of the corner of the panel, expands the amount of information and navigational icons.
Scan - Smart search
The search box is found at the top of Find. It performs ‘smart searches’ by pulling all scans related to what is typed in. If you don’t know the name of the specific scan, but know it is related to Earning announcements, type “earning” and a list will populate showing scans that are about Earning. Typing “Bull” or “Bear” will bring up scans with “Bull or Bullish” or “Bear or Bearish” in their names, respectively.
Of course, you can also elect to search by clicking the arrow for a complete list of available scans in a drop-down search.
Don't Know the Symbol?
No Problem
You can search for symbols from several entry points including “Market” and “Watch”. Simply start typing all or part of the Company’s name and the system will proactively provide you with suggestions. You can use this feature anywhere including Insiders and Institutions.
For example, typing “Bank” in the Symbol box will bring up the stock symbols and names of companies with “bank” in their name.
Depending where you are in the Platform, clicking on the selected symbol while you are in:
The “Market” or “Watch” tab, it will be added to your currently open list of stocks.
The Dashboard of the “Research” Tab, it will automatically provide the top layer of information on the stock. As always, you are able to navigate to different areas or ‘drill down’.
Insider or Institutions of the “Research” Tab, the corresponding data will display, such as data by Quarter, the biggest buyers and sellers and more.
Save your Favorite Scans
Create your Customized Scan List
Star any scan to have it show in Feature > My Favorite Scans.
There are two ways to do this:
Simply click the star on the Tile View of the scans or on the header in the results view of any scan.
Favorites will be easily access from the Scan main page
The Other Lists
In addition to your Personal and Dynamic Watch lists, the platform also provides “Actives Watch lists” from which you can add results to a new or existing Watch list.
If you want to eliminate low price, low volume stocks, click on the appropriate header to sort, then you can either click/drag to highlight the ones you want to delete – or – click the Check icon from the navigational icons to select the ones to delete – or to send to Research or another Watch List.
Past Scan Results
When viewing scan results, you can select a past date by clicking on the Calendar Icon, then the back arrow until you get to the month you want to search from. Click on the date you wish to view & the appropriate stocks will populate the screen.
The date you are searching will be displayed in the header
Note: Past Scans availability dates vary. When a new scan is added, the history is available from the day it was added to the platform going forward.
Heat Map & Spectrum Overview
Broad Market Insight that allows you to drill down
The Heat Maps are accessible in the Market tab and under Find>Explore and provide powerful visual views of market performance. This feature is designed to adapt to a variety of strategies and outlooks according to your portfolio needs. Select Index and Time Frame using the Action Icons. These can be changed going forward in any map screen.
In the Map view, each box represents either an industry group (default) or a stock when you drill down. The size of the box represents the market cap. By hovering your cursor over each box, an info box appears with info on that group within that industry, including the the number of companies, Market Cap, % Change in selected time frame.
Manage/Modify Watchlists
The Modify feature offers the following Symbol and List Management capabilities in one location:
- Rename the current Watchlist
- Add Symbols to the current Watchlist
- Use up/down arrows to drag/rearrange symbols in selected List
- Remove symbol(s) by clicking on ‘X’
- Highlight symbol(s) to add to another Existing Watchlist
- Highlight symbol(s) to Create a New Watchlist
Bonus! You can keep your Watchlist sorted by any heading using this feature:
Select your Watchlist
Sort by any Heading (Example: Price – High to Low)
Click on the Manage Icon, then click “Done” at the top of the screen
This setting will be ‘sticky’ until you change it.