About TickStock

How It Started

In 2022, a friend encouraged me to look into a tech stock. I was new to trading and wanted to be alerted when the stock increased by 5%.

The Problem

Every platform I tried was built for people who already knew what they were doing — full of technical jargon. Most required downloading an app. Alerts fired repeatedly during the same trading day for the same 5% price increase (5.1%, 5.2%, etc.)

Worse, there was no contextualization of the price alert around the number I cared most about: my purchase price. Am I up or down relative to my purchase price?

Building TickStock

So I decided to build my own tool.

TickStock is for the everyday investor, not the day-trader — day-traders already have plenty of options. I took a less-is-more approach, including only essential metrics and features and cutting the rest. Instead of a traditional screener, I built an algorithm that surfaces relevant stocks and ETFs automatically. And the site works on any device, from laptops to smartphones with low screen resolutions (i.e., zoomed text).

The Mission

Make investing easy, fun, and stress-free. That's the whole idea.