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October 2026
Notes from building Sensifty: what the data shows, plainly, including when it does not flatter the product. No tips, no stock picks.
Technical measures will not tell you whether a business is good. They do tell you whether the price is stretched against its own past, and stretched prices usually fall back: a median of about 16% within a year, more than 30% in nearly one case in four.
Stretched stocks usually dipped afterwards, but waiting for the dip did not beat buying at once. What patience bought was a calmer ride in falling years.
Screener, Tickertape, TradingView, your broker's app and Sensifty answer different questions. Here is what each is best at, and where Sensifty fits, from someone who built one of them.
Most price alerts fire too often to be useful. Sensifty's fires once per stretch. Here is how often that is, how long it takes, and what it does and does not mean.