Trendentum shows factual information computed by fixed, published rules. Nothing here is a recommendation or an opinion about any financial product.

Institutional-grade stock market research and tools,
for the self-taught investor

Professional investors don't run on gut feel.
Now you don't have to either.

Before a big fund buys a single share, a team of analysts takes the company apart. Trendentum does its own version of that work on the shares you own, and explains it in words you already know, so you finish each session understanding a little more than when you opened it.

Most terms explained where you meet themEvidence you can check yourself, never orders to buy or sellBuilt by a self-taught investor, not a hedge fund
Evidence before action

Understand what the signals are saying.

Every outlook comes with the reasons behind it, so you can weigh them yourself.

Positive outlook
More of the measures we check are pointing up than down.
Mixed / no clear outlook
The measures disagree, or none of them had anything to say.
Negative outlook
More of the measures we check are pointing down than up.

An explanation of what the evidence shows right now — never a recommendation to buy or sell.

What the professionals actually do

Three questions the professionals answer before they act.

Not more numbers — the same work the professionals do, with every step shown and most terms explained. You're never asked to trust a score you can't pull apart yourself.

01 / THE EVIDENCE

What is the price actually telling you?

Which way the price has been heading over the past year (trend), how it reacted to the company’s latest results, and where it sits on its chart today. Each comes with a sentence saying what it measured and over what period — and what its own record on that stock has been.

02 / THE INSIDERS

What are the company's own bosses doing with their money?

When directors buy or sell shares in their own company, they have to report it within days. We summarise those reports — how many buys and sales, and their reported value — and count only their purchases: people sell for a house or a tax bill, but buy for one reason. We carry US filings, and director notices for Canadian, UK and European listings. For ASX stocks, coming soon, we will add what short sellers have been doing.

03 / THE RISK

How exposed are you, really?

How much rides on your single biggest holding (concentration), how much of your money sits in one industry, one market and one currency (sector, market and currency exposure), and how your holdings compare with each other on momentum and volatility (factor rankings). Stated as one plain sentence, with the exact sums one click underneath.

Who Trendentum is for

For investors, not traders.

“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”

Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, Security Analysis (1934)

Trendentum is built to help you do that analysis, one company at a time, and to keep the two kinds of operation apart.

INVESTING

The business first.

What the company earns, owes and pays out, how that compares with similar companies, whether its directors have been buying, where filings are available, and the principles of Benjamin Graham, Philip Fisher and Peter Lynch, investors whose work has lasted decades — each shown against a stock you own. Write down why you own each one, and what would make you sell, and reread it when the results come out. Looking for new ones? Sectors lists the companies of each market’s main index, sector by sector; with Trendentum Pro you can filter them by the Graham tests you choose.

SPECULATION

Kept small, and kept apart.

Most investors also want a little in riskier bets. Mark those holdings Speculation, set your own ceiling, and see at a glance how much of your money is in them — so the bets stay the small part they were meant to be.

NOT FOR DAY TRADING

Research as deeply as you like. Nothing ticks.

Prices and readings update once a day, from finished trading days — so the figures hold still while you study a company. No live prices, no intraday charts, no buy or sell calls. If you trade in and out within the day, Trendentum is the wrong tool — and it will not try to become the right one.

How it works

Two paths, one habit.

Whether you already own a share or are only looking at one, the work is the same: study the business, write down your reasons, and let Trendentum tell you when something changes. Every decision box is yours.

Path 1

Shares you already own

  1. Add what you own

    Type in each holding, paste them, or import your broker’s export.

    Holdings & Watchlist →
  2. Study each business

    Years of accounts; Graham’s seven tests, marked can’t tell where the record is too short; Fisher’s measurable points from the company’s own figures, plus his questions about the people running it for your own notes; and Lynch’s six kinds. Nothing is scored.

    How Graham, Fisher and Lynch read a company →
  3. Write down why you own it

    Two boxes on every holding: why you own it, and what would make you sell. Mark it Investment or Speculation.

  4. Set your review points

    Your own levels: a fall or rise from what you paid, a trailing point, or a change in its chart state. Your numbers, never ours.

  5. Trendentum keeps watch

    A review point that is reached shows on your dashboard and in Sunday’s email; with Trendentum Pro, an evening alert arrives the day one is reached. Results, dividends and directors’ trades (where filings are carried) come in Sunday’s email.

  6. Does your reason still hold?

    Read what changed against what you wrote. Trendentum also shows how the price compares with Graham’s two price tests and whether the chart is Extended.

  7. Your call

    Keep, add, trim or sell, decided against your own reasons rather than the day’s price. Write down what changed, and the loop starts again at step 3.

Path 2

Shares you’re considering

  1. Find companies to study

    The companies of each market’s main index, sector by sector, in eight markets. Filtering them by Graham’s tests is Trendentum Pro.

    Sectors →
  2. Study the business

    The same company page: the accounts, the three investors’ tests, and the directors’ own trades where filings are carried.

    Research a stock →
  3. Put it on your watchlist

    With your reasons: why you’re watching it, and what you’d need to see first.

  4. See the price in context

    Graham’s two price tests (P/E against 15 times the three-year average earnings; price to book against 1.5) beside the five-year price chart. No fair value and no target: the tests are Graham’s, the judgement is yours.

  5. Set your own levels

    A price it falls to or rises to, a P/E it falls to, or a change in its chart state. One that is reached shows on your dashboard and in Sunday’s email, and with Trendentum Pro an evening alert arrives that day; its results and directors’ trades (where filings are carried) come in Sunday’s email. Your numbers, never ours.

  6. Is what you needed to see there?

    Check it against what you wrote at step 3, not against how the price makes you feel.

  7. Your call

    Keep watching, or buy it. If you buy, press I bought it: it moves to your holdings with what you wrote, and joins Path 1 at step 3.

The habit that holds it together: five minutes on Sunday

  1. Sunday’s emailWhat happened in your companies and on your watchlist, and what’s coming up
  2. Open the ones with newsResults, a dividend, a director’s trade
  3. Reread your reasonsDo they still hold?
  4. One lessonFive minutes in the investor school
What you'll see

Your dashboard, shown with example holdings.

That work, done on the shares you hold. Add them and these three views fill in for them. Each figure carries a plain sentence on where it came from — and nothing on them tells you to buy or sell.

How your portfolio moved. Value, today's change and your gain on what you paid, in your own currency, from each market's finished closes — with a market index fund alongside as a plain comparison, where one is carried for your currency (USD, CAD, GBP or AUD). A period some of your holdings don't reach says how many it covers.
This week on your stocksExample
  • KSWNYSETueFell 8.4% in one session on 3.1x normal volume, the pattern of a capital raising, results or a takeover approach; the company's announcements say which.
  • HVTNASDAQMonDirectors and officers reported 2 buys on market in the last 30 days (SEC Form 4).
  • BYETSXFriClosed at a new 52-week high.
Coming up in the next two weeks
  • NGCASXin 6 daysGoes ex-dividend. The traded price usually steps down by about the dividend that morning.
  • KSWNYSEin 11 daysReports results.
What the chart doesn't explain. One-day gaps, new 52-week highs and lows, unusually big moves, directors' own trades where filings are carried, and the dates coming up — each with where to look for the cause.
Your stocks · CompanyExample · invented companies
StockSectorMarket valueP/EDividendCash vs debtMonths of cashInsiders / funds52-week
NGCNorthgate Copper · ASXBasic MaterialsA$1.9B11.44.2%ex in 6 days0.85×adds cash3% / 41%72%
KSWKestrel Software · NYSETechnologyA$6.3B38.2noneno debtadds cash12% / 68%31%
BYEBayline Energy · TSXEnergyA$740Mloss-makingnone2.10×198% / 22%96%
The business behind each code. How big it is, what the market pays for its earnings, the dividend and when it next goes ex, its cash against its debt, and how many months that cash lasts if it keeps spending at last year's rate. Read, never scored.

Example holdings with made-up figures, to show the layout. The codes and companies are invented. Your dashboard shows the shares you add.

Start with what you already own

Add what you own. See what a professional would see.

Add your holdings →
Learn as you go

You don't need to already know what a P/E or a payout ratio means.

Most measures and terms on this site link to a plain-English explanation — what it measures and how to read it. Nothing here assumes you arrived knowing any of it. Most people pick it up simply by using the thing.

Start the investor school →Browse the glossary →
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What the rules read this week.

One email on Sunday evening, Sydney time: the market backdrop and every market's sector map as the rules currently read them — how many agree, which way, and nothing else. No stock codes, no prices, no returns. Stop any time from the link in every email.

Factual information from fixed, published rules — not a recommendation, not financial advice. You confirm by email before anything is sent; your address is used for this digest and nothing else.