Help & FAQ

Every card has a front with seven ratings (Financial Health, Profitability, Growth, Valuation, Analyst Upside, Trend Signals, Insider Track) plus the top-line score, the 📣 Hype Meter and ⚡ Event Radar pills, sector chip and quick summary. Hype's rating lives inside the Hype Meter drawer.

Tap the card to flip to the back: top contributors to the score, six-month trajectory sparkline, analyst-vs-market disagreement callouts (Plus/Premium), and deeper signals like dividend, analyst consensus and weekly trend.

Each rating scores a group of related measures from a company's real filings and market data on a −100 to +100 scale — what counts as "good" comes from published financial research plus our own backtests, and sector context is applied where sectors genuinely differ (a supermarket's margins aren't judged like a software company's). Higher = better on that axis. The bar on each row shows the direction at a glance, and the little chevron opens the exact figures behind it.

The top-line Fundamental Score is the equal-weight average of the four fundamentals axes (Financial Health, Profitability, Growth, Valuation). The Full Score (Premium) blends the fundamentals with Analyst Upside, the Trend signals and Insider Track — one summary of the whole picture. Hype is deliberately not counted (being talked about isn't a quality — the Hype Meter shows it separately). All scores describe how things look today; none of them predict returns.

Fundamental. Free for everyone. Equal-weight average of the four fundamentals axes.

Full. Premium tier. An equal-weight blend of the fundamentals plus Analyst Upside, the Trend signals and Insider Track — the broadest single read. Hype is shown as its own rating but deliberately doesn't move this score: being talked about isn't a quality.

Custom. Premium tier. You pick which axes go in — the score then equal-weights your chosen subset. Useful if you only care about, say, growth and valuation.

While in preview, the cards you see use representative numbers for popular tickers rather than live market data. The live-data layer (prices via yfinance & Stooq, fundamentals via EDGAR, macro via FRED) is being built and will ship before public launch.

A deck is your watchlist — a labelled group of stock / ETF cards. You can have one "Dividend payers" deck, another "AI plays", another "Boring blue chips", etc. Swipe through cards in your deck on the home screen.

Decks are unlimited on every tier. Cards go in any deck. Browse all your decks from All decks.

Open Search, find your ticker (or browse Discover for curated picks), tap the row to preview the card, then tap Add to deck and pick which deck.

You can also tap a sector chip anywhere in the app to open the sector card, then add a sector ETF the same way.

Tap the Compare toggle on the front of any card to add it to your comparison set. The bottom bar shows how many you've picked. Add up to 4 then open the compare page to see them side-by-side as a rating matrix.

No. StockDecks is a research and education app, not a broker. The trade page uses mock money — fake currency so you can practise building a portfolio and watch how the ratings translate to (simulated) returns.

When you decide to buy a real stock, you do that with an actual broker (Vanguard, IBKR, Robinhood, etc.). StockDecks doesn't handle real money and never will.

Free is enough for most casual research — every core rating on every card, unlimited watchlists, mock trading, sectors, ETFs and sharing.

Plus adds the 6-month price history line and comparing three cards at once. A light upgrade if you want a bit more context around the free ratings.

Premium adds the Full Score and Custom Score (one summary number, or pick which ratings to combine), the short-term Trend reads (Day/Week/Month), Inside Track (insider buying & selling), sector deep-dives, ETF tracking quality, and comparing up to 10 cards. Worth it if you want the whole toolkit.

Your first month of any paid plan is free — cancel anytime.

Tap the share icon (three dots with lines) in the top-right of any card. We generate a StockDecks-branded poster of the card and pop up your phone's share sheet. Send to WhatsApp, Instagram, Messages, X — the receiver gets the image plus a tap-through link to the live card.

Same flow on the compare page, the sector deep-dive page, and the trade page.

No. StockDecks ratings are signals from a quantitative model. They're useful for surfacing candidates and forcing comparison, but they aren't recommendations and they don't know your goals, your tax situation, or your risk tolerance.

Treat the scores as a research starting point, not a final answer. For personal financial decisions, consult a qualified advisor.