Frequently Asked Questions

Got questions about the indicators, subscriptions, or alerts? Here are general insights to help you navigate Stock Companion.

Stock Companion AI is an advanced market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to analyze news sentiment, track real-time price action, and generate trading signals.

We collect recent headlines about each stock, mainly from Finnhub, score them with state-of-the-art AI models trained specifically on financial data, and average the result into one whole number from 0 to 100.

  • 50 is neutral. We call 48 to 52 neutral; 53 to 59 slightly bullish, 60 to 74 bullish and 75 or more very bullish; 41 to 47 slightly bearish, 26 to 40 bearish and 25 or less very bearish.
  • No recent headlines means no reading, never a made-up 50.

    • Not investment advice.

    Every plan sees the same AI signal (Buy, Hold or Sell) with its reasoning, and the same 0 to 100 news sentiment. A free account also includes portfolio tracking, a watchlist of up to 5 stocks, the market calendars and the position-size and risk calculators.

    Free for everyone, with or without an account:

  • Strategy backtests on any stock: every BUY and SELL the AI signal would have given over the last 12 months, compared with just holding the stock, with the headlines before each one. A backtest is a simulation, not a forecast.

    • PRO adds:

  • Price alerts by email or Telegram
  • Price charts with RSI and MACD
  • The Smart Money tracker of insider and congressional trades
  • The AI portfolio health check
  • The Sector page
  • The full Ecosystem Radar (free accounts see the Magnificent Seven)
  • Scores from multiple AI models working together on every headline in your news feed, where a free account's feed uses a single AI model
  • The multi-stock signal scanner
  • A watchlist beyond 5 stocks
  • Insider trades on the calendar
  • Support tickets

    • You can upgrade by going to your Profile page and subscribing via our secure Stripe Checkout, or by trying to access any locked premium indicator.

    Yes, you can cancel anytime from your User Profile page. Your access will continue until the end of your current billing period.

    Close to it.

  • Prices: during US market hours, at most about 15 seconds old. Outside market hours, stock pages show the latest pre-market or after-hours price and say which session it comes from.
  • The AI signal: each stock's signal and news sentiment are worked out again at most every 15 minutes, and every page shows the same one. When the one we have is older, the card shows it at once with an "Updating" line saying how old it is, while a new one is worked out, usually within seconds.
  • News and alerts: new headlines usually appear within about 30 minutes, and alerts are checked every 15 minutes.

    • Stock Companion never connects to your brokerage account and cannot place trades. You add positions by typing them in, so you decide what we see, and your money stays where it is.

    Signal: the model's current Buy, Hold or Sell reading for a stock. It combines price trend, momentum, news sentiment and smart-money activity (insider trades, large funds' holdings and unusual options activity) into one score.

  • Buy or Sell: the score is clearly positive or negative.
  • Strong Buy or Strong Sell: the score is well past the line, not just over it.
  • Hold: the evidence is mixed, or not strong enough either way.

    • News sentiment: a number from 0 to 100, where 50 is neutral, with a word beside it such as slightly bullish or bearish.

    Not investment advice.

    We believe in transparency. Here is where each part comes from:

  • Prices and headlines: Finnhub.
  • Pre-market and after-hours prices: Yahoo Finance.
  • Chart history: Polygon.
  • Sector performance: Financial Modeling Prep.
  • Insider trades: SEC Form 4 filings.
  • Congressional trades: STOCK Act disclosures.

    • Each stock's news sentiment is scored by state-of-the-art AI models trained specifically on financial data.

  • Price alerts (PRO): open any stock page and use Set Price Alert; your alerts are listed on the Portfolio page, where you can delete them.
  • Signal alerts: the stocks you hold on the Portfolio page alert you when their AI signal changes.
  • Where they arrive: turn on email or Telegram under Alert Preferences in your Profile.
  • How often: we check every 15 minutes, and a new signal has to hold for three checks in a row before we alert you, so one noisy reading does not set it off.

    • Not investment advice.

    Most of the time they say the same. When they do not, it is because a signal alert is deliberately slower to change its mind than the page:

  • The stock page shows the AI signal as it stands now, a reading at most 15 minutes old.
  • A signal alert waits until a new signal has held for three checks in a row (about half an hour) before we send it. Once we have told you a stock turned BUY or SELL, its score has to move clearly back before we call it HOLD again, and we hold back an alert in the opposite direction for three days unless the score moves sharply.
  • Why: a stock sitting right on the line would otherwise send you BUY, then HOLD, then BUY again within an hour. The alert tells you when a change has settled; the page shows the latest reading.

    • So for a while, near that line, your last alert can still say BUY while the page already says HOLD, or the page can show a new signal before its alert arrives. When they differ, the stock page is the more recent reading.

    Not investment advice.

    Still have questions?

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