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The check before the chart

Avoid the landmines.Then take the shot.

Nobody loses their savings on a boring, well-run company. They lose it on the one that was quietly running out of cash while the screen showed nothing but a price. QTick checks that first, in plain English, before it says a word about the chart.

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NVDANVIDIA Corporation
178.42+2.51%
15m
WAIT.

Good business, stretched price. Four of eight entry checks are green — the company is fine, the entry isn't. Nothing here needs you to act today.

4 / 8 checks
Try a lower entry
Live price
The price you pay is part of the risk.
If you enter178.42
Get out at165.62
Aiming at195.00
Reward : risk1.3 : 1
Demo data · a real screen looks like this
~3,000companies checked the same way, every day
10 yrsof results and earnings history per name
GlobalUS, Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India
Every number traced to
SEC filings · 10-K, 10-Q, Form 413F holdingsCongressional disclosuresExchange price dataPublished options chainsBLS & Fed releases

You do not need to beat the market to do well. You need to stop handing it money on names that were never safe to own in the first place.

The cost of one

One landmine, once.

Set your numbers. This is what a single position going to almost nothing takes from you — and what that money would have been worth if you had simply never bought it.

What you invest
$25,000
In one name
10% of it
Gone$2,125if that one name falls 85%
To get back1.2 yearsof average market return, just to break even
Or in ten years$4,588what the same money becomes at 8% a year

Checking took forty seconds. The survival, honesty and price checks that would have flagged it are the first thing on every QTick page — free, for every company we cover.

Check a company free8% a year is the long-run US equity average · illustration, not a forecast
01How people actually get hurt

Three ways it goes wrong.

Each of these is visible in the filings months before the drop. Pick one and see the check that catches it.

Survival check

The company was already failing when you bought it.

Debt came due faster than cash came in, so the share count climbed every quarter to keep the lights on. By the time the headline arrives the stock is down 70% and there is nothing to recover — the business was insolvent, not cheap.

What QTick puts on the screen
A safety zone in words — safe, grey or distress — and where it sits against every other listed company.
The odds of default over the next twelve months, solved from the market's own pricing of the debt.
How much of your slice was quietly cut by new shares in the last three years.
Composite · retailer
Distress zone
SELL.

Insolvency risk, not a discount. Nothing in the setup is worth this downside.

Safety zone
Distress
Default odds · 1yr
14.2%
of 25%
Shares outstanding · 3yr
+41%
of +50%
Debt due within 12m
$1.9bn
Cash from operations
Negative
Illustrative composite · not a live quote
02The order we read in

Four questions, in this order.

Most tools open with a chart, which is the last thing that matters. Every QTick page opens with the question that costs people money.

01Can it survive the next twelve months?
Runs first

Safety zone and how it ranks against every other listed company, odds of default solved from the market's own pricing of the debt, a dilution check, and the failure mode specific to the type of company it is — a bank, a crypto-treasury holding, a penny-cap, or an ordinary business.

In one line: is there a real chance this goes to zero?

Safety zone · SAFEDefault odds 0.4% · 1yrShare count −1.2% / yr
03Inside the product

Four screens, and that's the whole product.

/s/NVDA

One word, then the reason for it.

The page opens with the call — wait, strike or avoid — in language you don't have to decode, with the checks behind it right underneath and a slider to sandbox a lower entry.

·Eight entry checks with which way each is moving
·Get-out level and reward-to-risk that recalculate together
·The next event this name reacts to, before it happens
qtick.ai/s/NVDA
CallWait — good business, stretched entry
4 / 8
SafetySafe zone · default odds 0.4%
SAFE
BooksNo accounting flags raised
0 / 4
Price4% above our fair-value band
≈171
TimingInflation print in 3 days · sensitive
3d
RiskGet out at 165.62 · reward 1.3 : 1
1.3 : 1
04Your watchlist

Watch the risk, not the price.

A price grid tells you what already happened. Your QTick list opens with a short briefing of what changed while you were away, ranked by what could hurt you first — a worsening safety zone before a new accounting flag, a flag before a price wobble.

Read it, clear it, get on with your day. Forty seconds, not forty minutes of staring at green and red.

·Every item says what changed, from what to what, and why it matters
·Set the level you care about and we tell you how far away it is
·Quiet names stay quiet — no alert for a 1% day
·Works on names you own, names you paper-traded and names you're only curious about
Since you last looked
4 of 7 names need you
SMCISafety
grey → distress edge
Its safety zone worsened after last night's filing — debt due inside twelve months now exceeds cash on hand.
Survival question, not a price question.
MUBooks
0 → 1 flag
A new accounting flag: receivables grew 31% while sales grew 9%.
Worth reading before you add.
NVDAYour level
178.42 → 174.10
Now 2.1% from the entry you said you were waiting for.
Closer, not there.
TSMEvent
earnings in 4 days
Has beaten estimates in seven of its last ten prints, and moves ±5.2% on the day.
Decide before it prints, not after.
Also on the list
TSM · ASML · LLY — quiet
05Pricing

Everything, free, while we're in beta.

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Nothing is held back. We would rather you stress-test the numbers and tell us where they break than sell you a tier we haven't earned yet.

·All four survival and honesty checks
·Fair-value bands with confidence levels
·Where the options market has built a ceiling or a floor
·Insider and fund activity, disclosed lags stated
·Ten years of earnings reactions per name
·Watchlists, screeners, alerts, global listings
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What beta means here
Panels can be empty.Where a source hasn't filled yet, the panel says so instead of inventing a number.
Methods still move.Every model carries a version. When it changes, the change is dated and visible.
Your read shapes it.Tell us which question you open first and which number you never use. That decides what ships next.

Beta accounts keep full access for the whole beta, with notice long before anything is priced.

Start with the name you're least sure about.

Read the survival check first. If it fails, you just saved yourself the trade. One email, full access, nothing to pay while we're in beta.

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