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Help & Guides

Quick guides to the features and settings that make EarningSpike faster. Tip: press Cmd-K anywhere in the app and type what you are looking for.

Ask the help assistant

Not sure where something is? Ask in plain English and it will point you to the right place.

Getting started

Jump anywhere with the command bar
One keyboard shortcut takes you to any ticker, page, or action without hunting through menus.
Keyboard shortcuts
Run EarningSpike from the keyboard: search, toggle the sidebar, and fly through the data drawer.
How to read the earnings table
What every column means: EPS, revenue, year-over-year change, beats and misses, and estimate rows.

Screener

Start a screen in one click
Quick-start presets load a proven set of filters so you get a useful list without building one from scratch.
Save a screen and reuse it
Build a screen once, save it, and reload it any day with a single click.
Screen in plain English
Describe the kind of stock you are looking for and the AI turns it into screener filters.
The screener filters, explained
The filter sections and what lives in each, from price and growth to insider, analyst, and institutional activity.
Customize your screener columns
Show, hide, and reorder the result columns, and save named layouts for each kind of screen.
Filter the screener by market theme
Narrow the screener to stocks tied to a business theme like AI, cloud, or REITs.

Movers

The Movers scanner
Scan the whole market for what is moving now, with free gainer and loser boards plus filtered preset scans.

Calendar

Focus the earnings calendar
Filter by report timing, sort by reaction or surprise, and read the guidance badges at a glance.

Charts & stock page

Make the price chart yours
Set candle and volume colors, add a volume average, switch to hollow candles, and toggle the grid and watermark.
Peek at a chart without leaving the page
Hover any ticker to pop up its price chart instantly, so you can scan a whole list fast.
The data drawer on a stock page
Slide out institutions, insiders, analysts, profitability, and news without leaving the chart.

Analysis & news

Key Signals
A row of tiles at the top of a stock page that surfaces the strongest thing happening right now.
The Earnings Playbook
How a stock has historically traded around its earnings: typical move, beat vs miss, gap-hold rate, and drift.
The Performance score
A single 0 to 100 score from a stock earnings and price history, with weights you can tune.
News, sentiment, and the News Summary
Filter news versus press, read at-a-glance sentiment, and get a written summary of recent coverage.
The Analysts activity feed
A live, market-wide feed of analyst price-target and rating changes as they happen.
Themes Radar
Which market themes and sectors are leading now, and which laggards are setting up next.

Lists & alerts

Build a list and see it as a heatmap
Group the stocks you follow into lists, then flip to a heatmap to read the whole group at once.
Get alerted on the moves that matter
Watch the stocks you care about and set alerts so you hear about a move instead of hunting for it.

Settings & appearance

Show only the panels you use
Turn stock-page sections on or off so your layout shows exactly what you care about, nothing more.
Arrange the chart and table your way
Put the chart left or right, stack it above the table, and set how the space is split.
Make the app easy on your eyes
Light or dark, a color palette that suits you, roomy or tight rows, and bigger text if you want it.
Open the app to your favorite page
Pick the page EarningSpike lands on when you sign in, so your daily routine starts one step ahead.
Tune the earnings and estimates view
Set your own up and down colors, and choose how many future quarters and years of estimates to show.
Choose what your Home page shows
Pick which cards appear on Home and drag the one you check first to the top.
Control your emails
One toggle turns alert and account emails on or off. We never send noise.

Account & billing

Your account, plan, and billing
Find your plan, upgrade, manage your subscription, set a profile photo, and sign out.

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