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Where the numbers come from
Which number comes from where, how old a price can be, and what happens when a number is missing.
Which number comes from where
| What | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Stock prices | Nasdaq, licensed and paid for every month, delivered through our market data service. |
| Key figures | The filings companies submit themselves. |
| Analyst estimates | The estimates reported for a company, as they reach us. |
| Report dates | The filings of the company. |
| Insider buys and sells | The filings executives and directors have to make. |
| News | The StockLife feed. Articles open at the publisher that wrote them. |
| Exchange rates | The reference rates of the European Central Bank. |
| Your own numbers | The calculators and the portfolio work on what you type. In the calculators none of it leaves your browser. |
On the tabs that show reported figures, a cell can open the document and the period it came from, so a number can be checked against its source.
How old a price can be
A price reaches you at least 15 minutes after it happened. The gateway keeps one for up to another 15 minutes, so what you read can be around half an hour old.
Every view carries the time of the value it shows. Read that rather than the clock on your wall.
This is the same on every plan. No plan has live prices, and there is no screen in StockLife where the delay is shorter. If you need the price of this second, a broker screen is the right tool and StockLife is not.
While a tab is in front of you, prices refresh about every 15 seconds. When you switch away, the refreshing stops.
Indices
There are no index quotes upstream, so an index is represented by a widely traded fund that follows it. That is a stand in. It moves close to the index but not identically, and the Analysis screen works the same way for regions.
Currency
You choose a display currency in Settings. A price quoted in US dollars is converted with the reference rates named above. A price quoted in another currency is shown as quoted and labelled with that currency.
In the calculators the currency is only a label. Nothing is converted there and no rate is used, which the menu says as well.
What a dash means
Nobody reported that figure. A dash is never a zero, and it is never filled in from another number or another year. A zero on screen means a reported zero.
Where a view has no source at all in this build, it says Coming soon and explains that no source supplies the figure yet, for any company. Where a view draws an example instead of a company, it says that too.
Everything that arrives is checked against the shape it has to have. Anything that does not fit is dropped rather than drawn.
When the market data service is not answering
The terminal says so and names what is affected: prices, fundamentals and search stop, while filed reports and the calculations made from them still load. A connection check that succeeds says only that your device reached the gateway, not that the data behind it is fresh.
What StockLife does not have
- No order placement. Nothing here reaches a broker, and you cannot buy or sell in StockLife.
- No order book depth.
- No interface for your own programs.
- No shared account for a team.
- No price alerts yet. They are on the roadmap.