Retail trading research terminal
TurningTide
Markets don't reverse randomly. The signals arrive first. Most traders see them only in hindsight.

Turning Tide — Retail Trading Research Terminal.Spot the inflection.Act before consensus.

Insider clusters, congressional trades, options unusual activity, off-exchange prints, short-squeeze setups, and AI-summarized SEC filings — every signal cited to its source.

Cross-asset · Macro · Institutional flow · Real signals
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For research only. Not investment advice. Past performance does not indicate future results.
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Primary-source foundation. Transparent data provenance.
Every signal traces to a public regulatory or exchange source — SEC EDGAR, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, and FINRA. Real-time, delayed, or end-of-day — we label which.
SEC EDGAR
FED DATA
TREASURY
FINRA
Real-time · 15-min delayed · End-of-day — freshness labeled per feature
How it works

From ticker to thesis
in four steps.

STEP 01
Pick any ticker.
Search 11,000+ U.S. equities + ETFs. Watchlist sync across devices.
NVDA$184.21+1.2%
STEP 02
Stack the signals.
Insider flow, options activity, off-exchange prints, SEC filings — every signal on one screen with source, freshness, and how to read it.
$12.4M off-exchange · 09:42
STEP 03
Read the AI research brief.
An AI brief synthesizes the day's filings, flow, and price action with citations back to the source documents. Not a prediction — a research starting point.
AI · 4 setups flagged
STEP 04
Decide what to research next.
Cross-link straight to the backtester, watchlist, or screener — every signal points to the next layer of confirmation.
Backtest · Watchlist · Screener
The product

The tide reveals everything.
Now you see it too.

One terminal. Insider flow, off-exchange prints, options activity, SEC filings, AI research briefs — every layer surfaced side by side.
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INSIDER FLOW · ILLUSTRATIVE
Illustrative preview · not real prints
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TIMETICKERSIDEINSIDERAMOUNTDELTA
09:42CORPBUYMEGA-CAP CEO$4,200,000+0.8%
09:37TECHSELLMEGA-CAP CEO$12,400,000−0.3%
09:33HLTHBUYMEGA-CAP DIRECTOR$1,800,000+1.2%
09:21BANKBUYMEGA-CAP CEO$3,600,000+0.4%
09:14ENRGSELLMEGA-CAP CFO$5,900,000−0.1%
09:02RETLBUYMEGA-CAP CEO$2,100,000+0.6%
CLUSTER DETECTED
Multiple senior insiders filing buys in a tight window.
Tracked here as a continuous reversal-pattern signal.
OFF-EXCHANGE · LINKED
Block prints far above a ticker's average size.
A research input that needs price/volume confirmation, not a directional signal.
Inside the terminal

Six surfaces. Same answer shape.

Every tab tells you what changed, where the data came from, how fresh it is, and how to read it. No black-box scores. No "smart money knows everything" framing.

Insider Flow
Who's buying or selling inside the company — and is the cluster real or just option exercises and grants?
SEC EDGAR · Form 3/4/5 · ~90s after EDGAR publication
Open-market purchases by senior executives carry more weight than grants, option exercises, or 10b5-1 sales.
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Options Flow
What's unusual in today's options tape — premium, volume vs open interest, sweeps, IV change.
Listed options exchanges (OPRA) · Intraday, 15-min refresh
Flag the trade as directional, hedging, earnings vol, or complex — single-leg volume alone is not a signal.
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Off-Exchange Prints
Large block prints reported through FINRA's TRF — size, price vs VWAP, clustering across the session.
FINRA TRF consolidated tape · Reported with standard tape delay
A block is a research input that needs price-and-volume confirmation. Direction and aggressor are not given.
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Short Intel
Short interest, days-to-cover, borrow rate trend, and the catalyst calendar that could resolve them.
FINRA + listed-exchange short reports · Twice-monthly FINRA cadence
Crowded short + rising borrow + thin float + a near catalyst is a setup. Any one alone is just a statistic.
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AI Research Briefs
A structured summary — what changed, bull/bear cases, signal conflicts — with citations to the source documents.
Our AI research engine on filings + signals · Generated on request
Treat the brief as a research starting point. Verify load-bearing claims against the linked sources.
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Screener
Filter the full universe by signal stack — insider clusters, flow, short pressure, valuation, macro sensitivity.
Composite — pulls from every feed · Recomputed nightly
Stack 2–3 filters that don't correlate. Three signals pointing the same direction beats one signal screaming.
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Full source list and freshness → /data
The education layer

Every data point,
explained.

Every competitor hands you a terminal and wishes you luck. We built the education layer in – so you understand why the data matters, not just what it says.
INSIDER CLUSTER
Multi-executive cluster buys
When several executives at the same company file purchases in a tight window, the pattern has historically been a stronger reversal signal than any single insider trade.
OFF-EXCHANGE PRINT
Block prints far above average size
Trades many multiples larger than a name's typical block volume — a research input that may indicate institutional activity and needs price/volume confirmation. Visible on Turning Tide, invisible on consumer brokers.
ANALYST PT REVISION
Top-tier sell-side raises target
Sell-side price-target revisions from research-heavy firms tend to drift the price in the same direction over the following weeks. Tracked here as a continuous signal.
EARNINGS SURPRISE
Beat plus raised guide
A positive earnings surprise paired with raised forward guidance is one of the cleaner setup patterns, especially when consensus revisions follow.
AAPL·227.43+1.21%
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What's inside

Twenty-eight research tools.
One cohesive language.

Valuation
DCF, multiples, sector percentiles. Every input explained.
Options Flow
Unusual options-volume screen + off-exchange prints. Filter by size and premium.
Short Intel
Short interest, days-to-cover, borrow rates, failure-to-deliver tape.
Macro
Yield curve, NFCI, regime model, Fed balance sheet – every release, one tab.
Insider Flow
Form 4 buys/sells + cluster detection with historical hit-rates.
Sectors
Breadth, rotation heatmap, relative strength, industry drill-downs.
Backtester
IS/OOS splits, Monte Carlo, rolling Sharpe. No survivorship tricks.
AI Research
Per-ticker briefs, pattern matches, qualitative moat narratives.
Use cases

Three workflows. Stacked, not scattered.

Each workflow is a sequence of tabs — not a single magic signal. Three independent inputs pointing the same direction is how you separate setup from noise.

Use case 01
Earnings setup hunter.
Find tickers where flow, filings, or analyst revisions hint at a move before the print.
Watch the Options Flow tab for unusual call/put premium and IV ramp into the catalyst window. Cross-reference Insider Flow for any open-market buys filed in the prior 30 days. Read the AI brief on the day before earnings — what changed, what to watch.
Use case 02
Short squeeze researcher.
Separate real squeeze setups from chat-room hype with multiple uncorrelated signals stacked together.
Start in Short Intel: short interest, days-to-cover trend, borrow rate, float. Layer Options Flow for gamma context — calls clustering near OTM strikes are the structural fuel. Add a catalyst from the SEC Filings tab to time it. Three independent inputs beats any single 'squeeze score.'
Use case 03
Long-term thesis builder.
Pair fundamentals, valuation, and insider conviction over multi-quarter windows for swing/position trades.
Start with Valuation — peer multiples, sensitivity table, sector percentile. Cross-check Institutional holdings (13F) for who's adding and trimming on the 45-day lag. Read the AI brief for the moat narrative and the bear case. The screener turns the same logic into a watchlist.
Data & methodology

Receipts. For every chart.

We publish the source, freshness, and methodology behind every feed in the terminal — including what Turning Tide is not.

Where the data comes from
Primary sources, named.
Every chart traces to SEC EDGAR, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury, FINRA, or a listed exchange. Where we apply licensed commercial partners, we describe them by category — what they cover and how fresh — rather than by brand.
Source list
How fresh it is
Labeled per feature.
Real-time tick data, intraday refresh, end-of-day, or modeled — we label which everywhere it appears. No 'live' badges on stale data. Freshness for every signal lives one click away on the methodology page.
Freshness
What we don't do
Not a broker. Not an RIA.
Turning Tide is a research terminal. We don't hold customer funds, route orders, or recommend specific trades. Signals are research inputs — the interpretation, the decision, and the risk are yours.
Boundaries
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FREESTARTERPROELITE
START FREE. ADD MORE SIGNAL WHEN YOU NEED IT.

Four tiers. Upgrade when you're ready.

You don't pay for the same set of charts as the desk next to you. You pay for how much signal you actually want. Save 20% with annual billing.

01
Free
Free
Get oriented. Read the market, explore the tools.
  • —Dashboard + 5-ticker watchlist
  • —Basic screener — 3 filters
  • —Delayed quotes (15-min lag)
  • —No card required — free forever
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No card required.
02
Starter
Starter
Active retail. Sizing into ideas across a few names.
  • —Core research pages (Snapshot, Markets, Macro, Watchlist)
  • —Real-time price + volume
  • —SEC filings + insider flows
  • —Full education layer
basicfull signal
$39/ month
Save 20% annually
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Pro
Pro
Serious trader. More signal, more depth, more edge.
  • —Everything in Starter
  • —Options flow + off-exchange prints
  • —AI-assisted research briefs
  • —Backtester + strategy builder
  • —Unlimited watchlists + alerts
basicfull signal
$79/ month
Save 20% annually
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04
Elite
Elite
For traders who live on the platform. Full signal layer.
  • —Everything in Pro
  • —Priority AI queue — higher rate limits
  • —API access + data export (coming soon)
  • —Political + lobbying intelligence (coming soon)
basicfull signal
$179/ month
Save 20% annually
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SIGNAL LOG · ILLUSTRATIVE FORMAT

Three reads a price chart couldn't give you.

Format shown is illustrative — no real tickers or outcomes depicted.
all timestamps US/Eastern
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TRENDING → INFLECTION
Illustrative
EXAMPLE TICKER
Volatility compression across a correlated-pair cluster — realized vol falling below the trailing band for the first time in weeks.
Signal tracked across multiple instruments simultaneously. When structural compression of this type fires on several correlated names at once, the regime engine flags a potential inflection — not a direction, but a change in character.
chart showed → Spot chart looked flat. No breakout. No alert on any screener.
WHAT FOLLOWED
Flagged an inflection in market regime
— · —
TREND UP · HIGH CONVICTION
Illustrative
EXAMPLE SECTOR ETF
Calendar spread in a commodity complex widened past its rolling 2-sigma band while the USD index showed a correlated break.
Cross-asset read: currency-commodity overlap created a structural setup not visible in any single price chart. The regime engine surfaced the convergence across three independent data layers.
chart showed → No price-volume breakout on the ETF. Standard screens showed nothing unusual.
WHAT FOLLOWED
Flagged a cross-asset regime shift
— · —
HIGH CONVICTION
Illustrative
EXAMPLE FX PAIR
Carry unwind risk elevated: sovereign yield crossing a key level, central-bank language softened, volatility skew flipped negative.
Momentum score crossed a high-conviction threshold. The carry trade plumbing driving this setup spans sovereign debt, FX volatility, and equity positioning — none of which is visible in isolation from a single-symbol chart.
chart showed → A single-symbol chart does not show carry-trade plumbing. Nothing to act on.
WHAT FOLLOWED
Flagged a high-conviction carry-unwind setup
Past signals are shown for illustrative purposes only — not a guarantee of future results.↑ See pricing
Frequently asked

Answers before
you commit.

No. Turning Tide is an independent research terminal – we don't hold funds or execute trades. You use Turning Tide to decide what to trade, then place orders with your existing broker (Fidelity, IBKR, Schwab, Robinhood, etc.).
Primary regulatory and exchange sources – SEC EDGAR for filings and ownership, the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury for macro and rates, FINRA for short interest and tape data, and the listed exchanges for prices, options flow, and off-exchange prints. Every chart cites its source on hover. Full per-feature source list and freshness on /data.
Professional terminals assume you already know what you're looking at – they hand you eight panels and wish you luck. Turning Tide pairs primary-source depth with a built-in education layer, so the learning curve is hours instead of months. Built for retail, priced for retail. Full source list and freshness on /data.
Yes. The Pro and Elite backtester supports in-sample / out-of-sample splits, rolling Sharpe, 1,000-path Monte Carlo, and walk-forward validation. No lookahead bias, no survivorship distortion – delisted tickers stay in the universe. Transaction costs are modeled (not zero). Backtests do not predict future returns. Full methodology on /data.
Our AI research engine powers per-ticker briefs, qualitative moat narratives, and pattern matches against historical setups. Elite gets a priority queue with higher rate limits than Pro. We never train models on your watchlists, portfolio, or trades. The AI does not predict prices or recommend trades — every brief cites its source documents so you can verify. Full AI methodology on /data.
Yes. Cancel from your account settings in one click. You keep access through the end of the billing period and owe nothing further. No phone calls, no retention offers.
Paid tiers replace the Free tier's 15-minute delay with near-real-time quotes; full tick-level streaming is on the roadmap. SEC filings surface within ~90 seconds of EDGAR publication. Options data refreshes intraday today, with live streaming coming to Pro and Elite. See /data for per-feed freshness.
All billing runs through Stripe – we never see or store card numbers. Turning Tide is served over HTTPS with strict CSP headers, and auth is handled by Clerk with optional 2FA. No passwords ever hit our servers.
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