How To Use Captain
Whether you’re day trading, swing trading, long term investing or something in-between there’s a Captain tool to help you. Learn how to use the tools to their full potential to maximize the value of your Captain membership.
User Guides
Creating and Using Stock and Analyst Watchlists
Real-time: News, Alerts, Fear & Greed Index and Periscope
Using the SuperFeed
How to Make Money with Captain
Stock Profile Pages
HOW TO USE OUR SCANNERS TO FIND TRADEABLE CHART SETUPS
In addition to the guides above did you know Captain invests its own corporate money based on the signals we see in the app? Read the details in our Introduction to Capfolio and follow along with all of our positions and rationale here.
Video Walkthroughs
Summary Dashboard
Captain's Summary Dashboard for general trends or custom watchlists will let you view key information about stocks you are watching or own, and ultimately help to inform your trade decisions.
This includes recent and upcoming earnings, news headlines, unusual trade volume, alerts, congressional trades, and insider trades.
Creating & Using a Custom Stock Watchlist
Learn how easily create a custom stock watchlist, and ways it can be used to sort trends, charts and threads across the toolkit.
Email Alerts Overview
Explore Captain’s email alerts, which allow you to quickly view which stocks have moved up or down in rankings, identify new stocks that traders have fresh focus on, and pinpoint which stocks are creating buzz. Alerts are sent out 3X daily: Pre-market (8:15 am ET), Midday (2:05 pm ET), After-Hours (8:05 pm ET), Sunday Market Prep (8:05 pm ET).
In addition to our Global Alerts, Pro Members can turn alerts on/off based on personal stock and/or trader watchlists.
Fintwit Fear & Greed Index
Explore which emotions are driving social sentiment on Financial Twitter (FinTwit) right now.
Look at 2 hour, 24 hour, and 7 day sentiment. Visualize this score over the past 200 days against $SPY $QQQ $IWM with moving averages.
Stock Currents Overview
Explore one of Captain’s newer features: Captain Currents. This tool allows you to visualize conversation volume over specific timeframes, in addition to trader commentary for those timeframes.
In addition to our Global analyst setting, Pro Members can customize the view by specific analyst categories, their own analyst or stock watchlist, OR individual ticker(s) separated by commas.