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Last updated: August 4, 2026

Important

StockEars does not provide investment advice. Help articles explain how the product works; they are not trading recommendations.

Use this page as a map of the platform: what each module is for, then what the ? tips mean on tables and filters. For anything else, contact us.

Using on-page help

Wherever you see a circle ? next to a column or filter name, click it. You get a short explanation of what that field means in practice — buy zones, consistency scores, swing thresholds, and similar trader terms — without leaving the page.

Modules & page guides

Titles match the names in the app sidebar and page headers.

Earnings Calendar

See who's reporting this week — scan by day, week, or month and filter by sector, size, hype, and quality.

Your Earnings Calendar. Flip between day, week, and month views, then narrow the list by sector, market cap, hype, and quality so you can plan the week before the tape gets busy.

Earnings Radar

Hunt pre-earnings setups with buy zones, hype momentum, and quality context before the print.

The main Earnings Radar. Sort and filter upcoming reports, watch buy-zone levels (average and floor entry), distance to the zone, potential gain from past runs, and 20-day hype momentum so you can prioritize names approaching a setup.

Watchlist

Your short list into earnings — buy zones, scores, and the names you're actually watching.

Star tickers from Earnings Radar and other modules to build a personal deck. Track buy zones, hype and quality, and quick historical context without wading through the full universe.

Fundamentals Screener

Cut the universe down to names that clear your quality, valuation, and growth bars.

A fundamentals-first scanner (Fundamentals Screener). Dial quality, P/E, ROIC, PEG, revenue, and related filters, then work the shortlist with the same ticker actions you use elsewhere (detail, 5Q report, trend).

Trend Pullback Screener

Hunt uptrends that have pulled back into the averages — then look for clean re-entry triggers.

Trend Pullback Screener: tab by strategy state, tune pullback depth and trailing stop, and optionally require a constructive market backdrop. Open any name in the Strategy Simulator to stress-test the rules.

Strategy Simulator

Walk a ticker through pullback and trailing-stop rules to see how the trade would have played.

Rule-based backtester paired with Trend Pullback Screener. Set capital, pullback, and trailing stop, then review equity curve, trade list, and the ticker's current state before you risk real size.

Pre-Earnings Hype Board

The hottest pre-earnings movers reporting in the next 30 days — momentum, volume, and run-up context.

A ranked board (Pre-Earnings Hype Board) of names with strong recent pre-earnings momentum and a report inside about a month. Use volume signal, historical pre-earnings run-up, and post-earnings volatility to separate clean runners from noisy names.

Post-Earnings Drift Scanner

Spot names that have tended to keep running after the print — focus on the +5 and +30 day windows.

Post-Earnings Drift Scanner research. Defaults rank by average +30d return among High pattern-mid names with enough past events. Screen pattern strength and consistency after the announcement, then open a ticker for checkpoint returns, MFE/MAE, and surprise history.

Hype Alerts

Multi-factor pre-earnings signals — RVOL, accumulation, estimate momentum, and legacy hype — ranked by composite score for names reporting in the next 30 days.

Hype Alerts surfaces investor-grade setups (Prime, Quiet Accumulation, RVOL Surge, Estimate Momentum, and Elevated Volume). Filter by sector, earnings window, and alert type. Use composite scores and metric chips as a checklist: confirm buy zones on Earnings Radar or in the 5Q Quant report, then star keepers onto Watchlist. Alerts are urgency cues, not buy signals.

Earnings Runway Planner

Build the week's earnings runway — entries, targets, and 5-quarter consistency before you size up.

Earnings Runway Planner: week-by-week planner for high-probability earnings runs. Pick percent or dollar consistency rules (default often 3-of-5 quarters), review suggested start/target levels, flags, and how quickly past runs usually reach the goal.

Swing Consistency Screener

Find tickers that repeatedly print your preferred intraday swing — dollar or percent, on your terms.

Swing Consistency Screener: scan historical price action for open-to-high runs, high-to-close fades, or overnight gaps that meet your threshold and consistency bar. Layer fundamental floors (P/E, ROIC, margins, and related filters), then open day-level history or the Expected Value Modeler on a candidate.

Trade Planner

Enter a ticker and dollar amount to sketch entry, expected next-session move, and share count from historical swing consistency.

Trade Planner inverts the Swing Consistency Screener: ticker in, plan out. Uses the same swing lookback and threshold defaults to suggest an entry, expected move, and position sizing with sample-size honesty — a planning aid, not a trade signal.

Expected Value Modeler

Translate hit rate and position size into a rough annualized expected value so you can compare setups.

Opened from Swing Consistency Screener. Plug in historical win rate and size assumptions to sketch annualized expected value — a sizing sanity check, not a guarantee of future results.

Field glossary (? help)

Same copy as the clickable help icons in tables and on Swing Consistency Screener search fields.

Scores & ratings

How StockEars scores momentum and fundamentals versus Street ratings.

Hype Score: Hype Score measures the stock's recent pre-earnings price momentum, approximately over the last 20 trading days. It is not a prediction or historical win rate. Bands: >5% High momentum; 2–5% Building; 0.5–2% Mild; below 0.5% Weak / cooling.
Quality Score: Fundamental Quality (0–10) uses sector-appropriate profitability, financial strength, growth, and risk measures. Independent of analyst sentiment — not a buy or sell recommendation. Bands: 0–2 Weak; 3–4 Below Average; 5–6 Average; 7–8 Strong; 9–10 Exceptional.
Hype: Recent pre-earnings price momentum (~20 trading days), shown as a percent. Not a prediction.
Qual: StockEars quality score on a 0–10 scale from fundamental metrics (profitability, balance-sheet strength, Piotroski-style inputs). Higher is stronger. Not an analyst rating and not a short-term hype measure.
Quality: Fundamental Quality (0–10) uses sector-appropriate profitability, financial strength, growth, and risk measures. Not an analyst rating.
Analyst Rating: Street consensus recommendation from the latest fundamentals data (for example Buy / Hold / Sell). Not the StockEars Quality Score.

Earnings Radar & buy zones

Levels and status chips used on Earnings Radar when hunting pre-earnings entries.

Avg Entry: Average historical launch-pad entry price from comparable pre-earnings setups (typically across ~5 quarters). Green when the current spot is at or below this level.
Floor Entry: Most conservative (lowest) historical launch-pad entry from the same setup history. Amber highlight / shield when spot is at or below the floor — often treated as a deep-value buy zone.
Distance to Floor %: How far the current spot sits above or below Floor Entry, as a percent of the floor. Negative means price is already below the floor.
Target Entry: Suggested entry price derived from average historical launch-pad depth versus the T-30 (30 trading days before earnings) reference. Compared to the same spot price shown in the Price column.
Price Status: Whether the current spot is below the Target Entry (“Below target”) or at/above it. Used with buy-zone filters to find names that have pulled into the zone.
Potential Gain: Average historical maximum pre-earnings run-up (avg max run) from the 5-quarter YoY sample. Needs enough historical quarters on file; blank when the sample is incomplete.
Profit Target: Price level implied by applying Potential Gain to the current/setup context — a historical run-up based objective, not a guaranteed outcome.
RVOL: Relative volume: recent volume divided by the ~30-session average before earnings. Higher means unusual activity. “max” is the largest single-day RVOL in that window. An orange bar badge can mark heavy volume on up-days (institutional footprint).
Days Left: Trading days remaining until the scheduled earnings date. Estimated dates may be marked separately.
Earnings: Days until the next scheduled earnings report for this ticker (negative means the report already happened).

Trend Pullback Screener

Strategy states and stretch metrics on Trend Pullback Screener.

State: Current strategy stage for this ticker. TREND_QUALIFIED = in a confirmed uptrend; PULLBACK_READY = has pulled back enough from a recent peak while still in trend; REENTRY_TRIGGERED = price just reclaimed the 20-day moving average after a qualifying pullback.
Rank: Composite ranking score for the active strategy state. Higher ranks higher within this tab’s results. Blends trend strength, pullback quality, re-entry timing, momentum, and fundamental quality.
Pctile: Percentile of this ticker’s ranking score within the current screener universe (0–100). 90 means it scores better than about 90% of peers in this result set.
Last: Most recent closing price from available market data.
52w / high / low: How far the latest close sits from the rolling 52-week high (H) and low (L), as percents. Context for trend extension and maturity — not a buy/sell signal on its own.
vs peak: Percent below the recent trend peak used by the pullback rules. Larger negative values mean a deeper pullback from that peak.
vs SMA20: Percent above or below the 20-day simple moving average (SMA20). Labels call out how stretched price is: tight, strong, extended, or very extended.
Ready: Whether this ticker has enough clean price history and required fundamentals to be treated as strategy-ready. “No” usually means incomplete data rather than a weak setup.
TF: Trend filter pass for this ticker versus its own trend rules (price vs SMA50/SMA200 and proximity to the 52-week high). Y = passes; N = fails.

Post-Earnings Drift Scanner

Checkpoint language on Post-Earnings Drift Scanner for studying what happens after the print.

Pattern Strength (+5/+30): How strong and consistent the ticker’s post-earnings drift pattern looks at the +5 and +30 day checkpoints. Higher means a clearer historical edge in those windows.
Consistency +30d: Share of past earnings events that were still favorable 30 days after the report.
Avg Return +30d: Average return measured ~30 days after comparable past earnings events.
EPS Surprise: Earnings per share surprise versus the consensus estimate for that report, as a percent.
MFE: Maximum favorable excursion — the largest peak gain versus the announcement reference during the measured window.
MAE: Maximum adverse excursion — the largest drawdown versus the announcement reference during the measured window.
DayOfMfe: Trading-day offset (relative to earnings) when the maximum favorable excursion occurred.
DayOfMae: Trading-day offset (relative to earnings) when the maximum adverse excursion occurred.
+5d: Return versus the announcement close 5 trading days after earnings.
+30d: Return versus the announcement close 30 trading days after earnings.
Return(+5d): Return versus the announcement close five trading days after earnings.

5Q Quant / launch-pad history

Terms in the five-quarter report and historical run tables.

T-30 Price: Closing price 30 trading days before the earnings report — the usual launch-pad reference. T-30 means 30 trading days before the company's earnings announcement.
T-Day: Trading-day offset from earnings. T-30 = 30 trading days before the report; T-0 = the earnings report date.
Launch Price: Historical launch-pad price used as the start of the pre-earnings run measurement.
Launch Date: Date associated with the historical launch-pad reference for that quarter.
% Run: Percent move from the launch-pad price to the pre-earnings peak in that quarter’s sample.
Pre-Earnings Price: Last price before the earnings announcement for that historical quarter.
Run to Peak %: Percent move from the launch-pad price to the pre-earnings peak.
Run to Earnings %: Percent move from the launch pad to the last pre-earnings close.

Swing Consistency Screener

Result columns and search fields on Swing Consistency Screener.

Metric Mode: Choose whether swing thresholds are measured in dollars (high − low) or percent ((high − low) / open).
Swing Segment: Which part of the session to score: all swings, open→high run, high→close fade, open→close move, or overnight gaps only.
Conditioned On Overnight: Optionally require the overnight gap to be flat, gap-up, or gap-down before a day counts toward consistency. Flat = overnight move between −0.5% and +0.5%.
Min Range Threshold: Minimum swing size a day must reach to count as a pass. Units follow Metric Mode ($ or %).
Lookback Window: How many recent trading days (or a custom date range) are scanned when measuring consistency.
Min Day Consistency: Minimum share of lookback days that must meet your swing and overnight filters for a ticker to appear in results.
Avg Daily Range ($ / %): Average daily range over the lookback, shown in dollars and percent — how large a typical session move has been.
Consistency Rate: Share of days in the lookback that met your swing threshold and overnight-gap filters.
O -> H Run: Average open-to-high intraday run over the selected lookback (dollar and/or percent).
H -> C Fade: Average high-to-close fade over the selected lookback (dollar and/or percent).
Overnight Gap: Average overnight gap (prior close → open) over the lookback, in dollars and percent.
Max P/E: Maximum price-to-earnings ratio allowed. Set to Any (0 on the slider) to ignore this filter.
Min ROIC: Minimum return on invested capital (%) from fundamentals. Higher means more efficient capital use.
Max D/E: Maximum debt-to-equity ratio allowed. Set to Any (0 on the slider) to ignore this filter.
Min Profit Margin: Minimum net profit margin (%) from fundamentals.

Earnings Runway Planner

Week runway columns on Earnings Runway Planner when planning earnings runs.

The Setup: Suggested start/entry, 52-week low, and current price for planning the run. Status chip shows whether price is still watching, in zone, or past the goal.
The Goal: Target exit price for the planned pre-earnings run based on historical consistency rules.
Flags: Trade flag for this week’s plan — Watch (not at entry yet), entry/exit style cues when price crosses your suggested levels.
Live Gain: Live gain from the suggested entry using the latest price (shown on execution / past views).
Status: Live execution status for the planned trade (for example still open, hit target, or stopped out of the zone).
Consistency Score: How many of the last five quarters passed your chosen consistency rule (percent or dollar). Default planning bar is often 3-of-5.
Efficiency: Typical number of days from setup to target in the historical sample — how quickly the run usually plays out when it works.
Plan: Open the trade plan sheet for this ticker (levels, consistency breakdown, and notes).

Strategy Simulator trades

Backtest trade table fields on Strategy Simulator.

Entry $: Simulated entry fill price for the round-trip trade.
Exit $: Simulated exit fill price for the round-trip trade.
PnL: Profit or loss in dollars for the simulated round-trip trade.
PnL %: Profit or loss as a percent of the simulated entry price.
Hold days: Number of calendar/trading days the simulated position was held from entry to exit.

FAQs

Is StockEars investment advice?

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How do the ? help tips work?

On tables and many search filters, click the small ? next to a label for a short trader-facing explanation of that field. Hovering abbreviated headers may also show a quick tip. The glossary below collects the same explanations in one place.

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