Insights
How to read the market without being sold a story. Explainers on analyzing a company, interpreting filings and disclosures, and understanding what a signal does — and does not — tell you.
Education, not investment advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
Reading the data
How to read an earnings report
Earnings reports are written to be skimmed in the wrong order. What to read first, why the beat-or-miss headline is the least useful number in the release, and where guidance actually moves the price.
· 4 min read
How to analyze a stock before you buy it
A practical six-step framework for analyzing a stock before you buy: what the business does, what it earns, what it costs, what the chart says, who else is buying, and what would prove you wrong.
· 5 min read
What the signals mean
Method & transparency
How to choose an AI stock analysis tool
The categories of AI stock analysis tool, what each is actually for, and the seven questions that separate a serious research tool from a confident-sounding wrapper. Includes where Synoptiv fits and where it doesn't.
· 5 min read
Can AI analyze stocks? What it does well, and where it fails
An honest account of what AI can and cannot do in stock analysis: it is genuinely good at synthesis across many documents, and it cannot predict prices. How to evaluate an AI stock analysis tool, and the failure modes to check for.
· 5 min read
Investor behaviour
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Synoptiv keeps a plain-English glossary of market and analysis terminology, and publishes analyses of individual stocks that put these ideas to work.