Sources you can check
Press releases from wires such as PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire, and Newsfile, plus SEC EDGAR filings. Rumors and forum posts do not start a new item.
ABOUT
Read the filing.Then explain it.In plain language.
Trigger Grade reads press releases and SEC filings for companies listed on NASDAQ, NYSE, and NYSE American, and writes a short explanation of the event.
The Trigger Grade team is a group of university students interested in economics and development. We started Trigger Grade for our own investing.
We do not recommend a stock and we do not forecast the price. We show which event is worth reading and which figures to check.
Trigger Grade is not a broker. It does not place orders or hold money. The pages are reference material for your own decision.
What we care about
The first job is choosing data that is worth reading, and leaving out data that is not.
A company's own press release and its SEC filing should come before someone else's opinion.
A long filing is hard to finish even in English. We write the short version and leave the original in place.
- Which exchange and which ticker
- The point of the release or filing, and the figures in the original
- How those figures sit next to float, market context, RVOL, and cash runway
- Whether it is promotion or a change in the company's structure
- Whether it can dilute holders, including an offering or an ATM
- How far the source and the time can be checked
The reading method lives in the guide. Each filing note only records that document's figures and why they were read that way.
Free and paid
FREE and PRO differ in speed and in the extra tools. A new item appears shortly after it is saved. If you only follow large S&P 500 or Nasdaq names, you may not need PRO.
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When checkout is open, Creem handles the payment. Subscription revenue goes to collection, analysis, infrastructure, and the product.
Feedback changes the product
The screen should be obvious. Speed includes the time it takes to understand what you are looking at.
We keep checking speed and accuracy. Notes from readers are part of that.
How items get in
What we take, what we leave out, and how we write it.
What stays out
Market rumors, forum posts, personal opinions, stock promotion, buy or sell tips, and promised returns are not sources. The same event from several wires is folded into one.
Promotion versus a structural change
We separate a promotional line from a change in the company. Size is read against the company, including dilution and holder impact, and then written in short form.
Stock traits are tags
Low Float means a relatively small free float. Today IPO means a listing that started trading today. High Squeeze means short interest and borrow cost are both high. Bad Cash Flow is a reminder to look at financing and dilution. The tag is not the grade.
Why financing sits next to the story
A filing that sounds positive can read differently once you see how long the company's cash lasts.
Cash flow, cash runway, financing, and dilution are checked beside the event. A tag does not mean an offering is certain or that the price will fall.
We also look at the following.
- Cash-flow strain and a short cash runway
- A need for more financing
- Offerings, ATMs, PIPEs, and shelf registrations
- Convertibles, warrants, and pre-funded warrants
- Dilution of existing holders
The method is in the cash runway and dilution guides. Worked examples are in the filing notes.
Quality and transparency
Trigger Grade does not exist to promote a ticker or to push a trade. It collects official press releases, SEC filings, and the market snapshot from that moment.
How it is operated
AI summaries are marked apart from the original. The editing rules are on the editorial policy page.
How source data is used
Data is handled inside each provider's terms. Whether the full original is shown depends on those terms. A link to the source stays on the page.
Independent analysis
Ads and commercial relationships do not change a grade. Source, analysis, and market data stay separate and use the same rules.
Not a pile of headlines
The feed is not a stack of titles. Each release and filing is read on the same rules, with the stock's state at that time.
A market snapshot from the event
The page does not only show a price that keeps moving. It keeps the price, change, RVOL, float, short interest, and CTB from the analysis moment.
A summary and a reading
The short text keeps the important facts and says what they are. The conditions stay in the original.
The method is public
The guides show how float, RVOL, short interest, and cash runway are read. Filing notes apply that method to a real document.
Trust and security
The service is run to stay up and to keep account data limited.
Who operates Trigger Grade
Trigger Grade is operated by the Trigger Grade team. The company name is pove1001. The Trigger Grade team is responsible for the content on this site. The team is university students interested in economics and development. We started Trigger Grade for our own investing.
Account data
We process the account data the product needs. We do not ask for a brokerage login, order history, holdings, or margin.
Payments
PRO checkout goes through a processor such as Creem. Card numbers are not stored on Trigger Grade servers.
Privacy
What is collected, why, and for how long is in the privacy policy. Selling personal information is not the business.
Separate from a brokerage
This product does not connect to a brokerage or a bank to place trades, and it does not hold cash or securities.
What comes next
Keep reading U.S. press releases and filings on the same rules, and keep the explanation understandable.
More filing notes
More documents, with the figures checked against the original. Each note should follow that document.
Guides and the glossary
Float, RVOL, short interest, CTB, offerings, ATMs, PIPEs, and warrants stay in the guides and the glossary.
Speed and accuracy
We keep checking the path from collection to the screen.
Not investment advice
Trigger Grade does not give investment advice, recommend a buy, sell, or hold, or promise a return.
We do not recommend a stock and we do not forecast the price. Summaries, readings, and tags are there so you can check a press release, an SEC filing, and the snapshot faster.
An AI reading can miss context or be wrong.
Before a decision, read the original release and filing, the price and volume, the company's own materials, and the financials.
The decision and the trade are yours.
Look for yourself
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