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The terminal, screen by screen
The terminal has ten screens. This page says what each one is for and what it shows.
Where the terminal is
The terminal is its own application. It opens from stocklife.io/login, which hands you to the sign-in service and then to the terminal. This website is the shop window, the terminal is the product.
It runs in the browser on a computer, a tablet or a phone. There is nothing to install and there is no phone app.
The ten screens
A dock at the bottom of the window holds the market screens. Settings, Help and Community are not in the dock, because they are places you go when you have something to settle rather than places you move between while you work.
| Screen | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Home | Lists of companies with their price and their change on the day, plus market news. A crypto view sits next to the stock view. |
| Terminal | One company in full, with its chart, its key figures and a row of tabs. See A company page. |
| Watchlist | Your own lists, with prices, history and up to three benchmarks. See Watchlists. |
| Screener | The stock finder. See The stock finder. |
| News | Articles from the StockLife feed. Links open at the publisher that wrote them. |
| Calendar | Your own entries in a day, week or month view, next to the report dates read from filings. |
| Analysis | The wider market: regional index proxies with their prices and their year to date numbers, with filters, sorting and an export. |
| Settings | Every preference, your plan and your legal choices. See Settings reference. |
| Help | Short answers, and the way to a person. |
| Community | The feedback board. Posts are read, and the roadmap is not fixed. |
Move between screens
- The dock. One icon per market screen.
- The search. Ctrl and K, or Command and K. Type a company, a ticker, a screen or a setting.
- The keyboard. G and a letter for a screen, V and a letter for a tab. See Keyboard and search.
Read what a view tells you about itself
Every view says where its numbers came from and how old they are. Four labels do most of that work.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A time next to a value | The moment that value was taken. Read it rather than the clock, because a price is at least 15 minutes old. |
| A dash | Nobody reported the figure. It is never a zero and never filled in from another number. |
| Coming soon | No source in this build supplies that figure yet, for any company. |
| Illustrative model values | The view is drawing an example rather than a company. Nothing in it describes the company on screen. |
Where the market data service is not answering at all, 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.
How often prices refresh
About every 15 seconds while the tab is in front of you. When you switch to another tab, the refreshing stops, so a window left open in the background does not keep asking. It starts again when you come back.
Get data out
Tables that carry numbers have a CSV export. Every cell is quoted, and anything a spreadsheet would read as a formula is neutralised first, so an exported file cannot run anything when you open it.
A view can also be shared as a picture. Share a snapshot takes a screenshot of the view, lets you pick the shape of the image, and then copies or downloads it.
If a screen stops
The terminal catches a view that fails and offers to reload it, to open Home, or to write to support. Your saved settings and watchlists are not reset by that, although unsaved changes in the view can be lost.