An introduction to TickrLab
Tickr Lab watches a list of stocks and scores them on how their prices are behaving and how the underlying companies are doing. It is a screener: it narrows a list down to the few names worth a closer look. The assistant deliberately never offers a verdict of its own; it can report what the Advice column concluded and the rule behind it, with attribution. The Advice column does carry a verdict, but it is the output of a plain rule set you can read in full in section 12 — a consistent reading of today's numbers, not a prediction.
Stocks are grouped into themes — a stock can belong to several — and the picker at the top left switches between them. Prices update after each close; the company numbers behind Quality refresh about once a day.
Why this exists A brokerage terminal gives you four hundred indicators, streaming quotes and no opinion — the synthesis is your job, every time, forever. Tickr Lab is the opposite bet: one opinionated, fully-inspectable pipeline over a small universe you chose. Its defining feature is not any single number but that every verdict shows its work — click any Advice cell and you get the exact rule ladder, the one rule that fired, and the thresholds drawn as gauges. There is no "why exactly does this say Buy?" button anywhere else; here it is the whole design.
The second bet is institutionalised honesty. The backtests charge trading costs and hold out a period before looking; ideas that measured as noise are recorded so they stay dead; the trend line on a stock page refuses to claim any history the price bars cannot prove; and the nightly email says "prices only — fundamentals not re-pulled" rather than letting stale numbers pass as fresh. Even the watchlist carries deliberate ballast — faded names nobody is excited about — because a list made only of winners flatters every idea tested against it.
And the third is deliberate absence. No streaming quotes, no options chains, no order entry, no five-hundred-stock scanners: this is a daily-cadence research instrument, not a trading cockpit. It decides what deserves your attention and shows you exactly why — the last mile belongs to your broker.