Question 1

What is Stakeout Stocks?

Accepted Answer

Stakeout Stocks is a research tool for retail investors that drafts a sourced investment thesis for a US stock — a bull case, a bear case, what to watch, and a fair value estimate — from SEC filings, company fundamentals, and recent news. You edit the draft into your own thesis, and what you keep is what gets monitored: when news or price moves bear on a watch item, you get an alert that names the item and links to the source. You can track any US stock you're researching, whether or not you own it.

Question 2

Is Stakeout Stocks financial advice?

Accepted Answer

No. Stakeout Stocks helps you organise and track your own investment research. It does not tell you to buy or sell, and it never frames its output as a recommendation. All investment decisions remain your own responsibility.

Question 3

Do you give buy or sell ratings?

Accepted Answer

No. Stakeout Stocks shows the evidence for and against a stock and labels what is fact and what is inference. It can show which way the weight of the evidence currently leans, but that is an inference, not a rating. The fair value range is an estimate, not a fact, and you can set your own. The decision stays yours.

Question 4

Which stock markets does Stakeout Stocks cover?

Accepted Answer

US stocks listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ.

Question 5

Where does the research come from?

Accepted Answer

Mainly primary sources: SEC EDGAR filings (10-K/10-Q) for the qualitative picture, Finnhub for fundamentals and pricing, and web search for recent news and named third-party sources. Every claim in a thesis is cited with a source name and an as-of date, fact and inference are labelled, and anything that can't be verified is flagged rather than guessed. Every source is named, so you can judge it yourself.

Question 6

How is this different from asking an AI chatbot about a stock?

Accepted Answer

A general-purpose AI chatbot answers from training data and can mix up facts with plausible-sounding guesses. Stakeout Stocks pulls from filings and named sources for every research run, cites each claim with a source and a date, labels fact versus inference, and — unlike a one-off chat answer — keeps monitoring the stock afterward, alerting you when news bears on what you wrote down. A chatbot only answers when you remember to ask.

Question 7

What is thesis monitoring?

Accepted Answer

Once you save a thesis, a monitoring agent checks every weekday after the US close for price moves relative to your fair value range and for news that bears on the watch items you kept — not just any headline that mentions the ticker — and alerts you by email. Each alert names the watch item it matched and links back to the source.

Question 8

What is the thesis check?

Accepted Answer

The thesis check re-tests each watch item in your thesis against the company's own filings — and re-runs when a new 10-Q or 10-K comes out. For every item it shows whether the evidence confirms or challenges what you wrote, which way that result points for the stock, and how the overall picture compares with the stance you took. When the filings don't address an item it says "can't tell" rather than guessing, and it never tells you to buy or sell.

Question 9

Why are there two numbers — stocks tracked, and research runs?

Accepted Answer

They count different things. Stocks tracked is how many companies are on your watchlist right now. Research runs is how many theses you've had written — one run adds a new stock, another gets you a fresh draft on one you already track (useful after an earnings report, for example). A fresh draft starts from scratch, so notes on your current draft don't carry over. Day to day, what keeps a thesis current isn't a fresh draft — it's monitoring, which checks every weekday for news that bears on what you wrote.

Question 10

What happens when I hit a limit?

Accepted Answer

You pause tracking on a stock to make room for another — nothing is deleted, and the paused report stays saved and readable.

Question 11

Can I change plans later?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Changing plan never deletes a thesis. If a plan tracks fewer stocks than you're currently monitoring, you choose which to pause.

Question 12

Do I need a card for the free trial?

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No.

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