Researching a Stock with the TyBuff Screener — A Step-by-Step Guide
Most stock research starts the same way Google does: a single box, a few characters,
and a list of suggestions. The TyBuff Screener works exactly like that — but
instead of ten blue links, the result is a full research dashboard for one company,
assembled on a single page.
This guide follows that flow end to end: the search, then every section of the
stock detail page it opens — with extra attention on the four features that set
this page apart from a typical quote screen: the ticker-aware AI chat, the
Institutional Activity Detector, the 30-Day Price Prediction, and the AI
Stock Insights panel.
One idea runs through all of it:
TyBuff is an analytical platform, not a financial adviser. Every score, signal,
projection, and AI paragraph on this page is an analytical output computed from
historical and market data. None of it is a recommendation or an instruction to
trade. The page is built to help you research; the decisions stay yours.
Step 1 — Search like you'd search Google
The Screener's entry page is deliberately bare: a logo, one big rounded search box,
and a row of popular tickers (AAPL, MSFT, TSLA, NVDA, SPY, QQQ, GOOGL, AMZN).
- Start typing a ticker, company name, or ISIN, and a dropdown suggests matches
live as you type. - Use the arrow keys and Enter, or click a suggestion, and you land directly on
that instrument's detail page. - The popular tags are one-click shortcuts to get a feel for the page.
That's the whole search. The interesting part is what opens next.
Step 2 — The page header: the company at a glance
Every detail page opens with a hero band carrying the essentials:
- The ticker badge and company name.
- Last Close with its day's percentage change (green up, red down), and the date.
- Previous Close in the instrument's currency.
- A 6-Month Range bar showing where the current price sits between its half-year
low and high — an instant read on whether you're looking at something near the top,
bottom, or middle of its recent range.
Below it, Stock Information lays out the classification (sector/category,
sub-category, genre, currency, ISIN), and the Fundamental Snapshot gives a compact
three-panel readout — Valuation, Growth & Profitability, and Risk & Cash
Flow — with an Open Full Fundamentals button for the complete table. (The
snapshot uses cached fundamental data only; it deliberately does not include Graham,
DCF, or fair-value math — that lives in the Intrinsic Value Calculator.)
Step 3 — Price, technicals, and structure
The middle of the page is a classic technical-analysis stack, each section in its own
card:
- Price Chart — an interactive candlestick/line chart with selectable time ranges
that load on demand. - Yearly Performance & Volatility and 52-Week Range & Moving Averages — the
longer-horizon context. - Technical Indicators — RSI (14-day), MACD (12, 26, 9), and Bollinger
Bands (20, 2 standard deviations), each drawn and read out. - Volume Analysis — a volume history to spot unusual activity.
- Trend Strength Score — an overall trend-strength read broken into its component
parts. - Support & Resistance Levels and Fibonacci Retracement Levels — the key price
zones, including levels derived from swing highs and lows.
These are the building blocks. The next three sections are where TyBuff goes beyond a
standard quote page.
Feature focus 1 — The Institutional Activity Detector
This is one of the page's most distinctive tools, and it answers a question retail
screens usually can't: is "smart money" quietly accumulating or distributing this
stock?
It works by scanning for unusual-volume days and reading how the price closed on
those days — heavy volume with strong closes looks like accumulation; heavy volume
with weak closes looks like distribution. The card then summarizes:
- A big Net Institutional Flow verdict — Accumulation (green), Distribution
(red), or Neutral (amber) — with a signal-strength label. - A three-number breakdown: Accumulation Days, Distribution Days, and Total
Signals detected in the window. - A Recent Unusual Volume Activity list, where each signal shows its date, its
volume ratio (e.g. "2.4x average"), and where the price closed within that day's
range. - A plain-language "What This Means" note that explains the current reading — for
example, that institutions appear to be building positions on high-volume days, a
potentially bullish pattern.
Read it for what it is: a detector of patterns in volume and price behavior, not a
confirmed report of who is actually trading. The wording is intentionally careful
("appear to," "potentially") because the tool infers institutional behavior from price
action — it's a research lens, not a filing.
Feature focus 2 — The 30-Day Price Prediction
Next is a 30-Day Price Prediction — but it's important to understand what kind of
prediction it is. This is a statistical forecast based on historical volatility, not
a crystal ball and not an AI guessing direction.
The card shows:
- The Current price, the stock's Volatility, and its recent Trend (bull or
bear). - A projection cone charted over the next 30 days — a widening band that reflects the
range of outcomes consistent with the stock's own historical volatility. The cone gets
wider further out because uncertainty grows with time, which is exactly the honest way
to draw a forecast.
And the card says so itself, right on the page: "Statistical projection based on
history. Not a guarantee. Use as one input among many." That's the spirit to read it
in — a quantified sense of how far this particular stock tends to move, not a target
price. (It needs at least 60 days of data to compute.)
Feature focus 3 — AI Stock Insights
Where the sections above compute fixed metrics, AI Stock Insights lets you ask an AI
model to write up an analysis of the current ticker, in three flavors — each priced in
AI credits so you only spend on what you want:
- Technical Analysis (3 credits) — chart patterns, RSI/MACD/Bollinger conditions,
trend strength, and key support/resistance levels. - Company Overview (2 credits) — growth/value/cyclical classification, sector
dynamics, 52-week positioning, and volatility character from the compact fundamentals. - Quantitative Structure Analysis (4 credits) — an objective, neutral read of the
technical structure: price-zone context, indicator alignment, and volatility behavior.
Pick one and the report renders inline, with a Copy button and a running AI
Credits counter so you always know your monthly usage. Every report carries the same
honest banner: it's generated automatically by AI models from the data available on
the page, may contain inaccuracies, and is for informational and educational purposes
only — not investment advice, and not a trade recommendation. Any price levels or
scenarios it discusses are hypothetical analytical outputs.
Feature focus 4 — Chat that already knows the page
Here's the feature that quietly changes how the whole page feels. On the detail page
there's a floating A.I. button (bottom-right) labeled "Ask A.I. about {TICKER}"
(3 credits per question) — and the assistant behind it is ticker-aware.
That's the key difference from a generic chatbot. This assistant already has compact
context from this exact page: the chart, the volatility and performance figures, the
fundamentals, and the institutional-activity summaries. So you can ask things like:
- "What is the 90-day volatility and the recent trend context?"
- "Summarize the institutional activity signals on this page."
- "How does this stock's valuation snapshot compare to its sector?"
When enabled for the profile, it can also pull controlled TyBuff database summaries for
other tickers, screens, comparisons, technicals, and fundamentals — so a single
conversation can range from "explain this page" to "now compare it to a peer" without
you leaving the page or copy-pasting numbers.
It's a genuinely useful way to interrogate a stock in plain language. And it stays
inside the same guardrails as everything else: it's LLM-powered, generates automated
analytical responses, may be imperfect, and does not provide investment advice,
recommendations, trading signals, or personalized planning. No advisory relationship
is created — you're using it to understand the data faster, then deciding for yourself.
A note on access: Screener Plus
The richest sections — the advanced technicals, the Institutional Activity Detector, the
30-Day Prediction, and the ticker-aware chat — are part of Screener Plus. If your
plan doesn't include it, you'll see those areas as a locked preview with an Unlock
Screener Plus prompt rather than empty space, so you can see exactly what they offer
before upgrading. The core search, header, fundamentals snapshot, and standard charts
remain available either way.
The rest of the dashboard
Below the headline features, the page keeps going with more context cards:
- Volatility Analysis and Risk Metrics — how turbulent the stock has been and its
risk profile. - Performance Breakdown — returns sliced across timeframes.
- Momentum & Trend Indicators — the directional picture.
- Price Action Heatmap — a visual grid of how the stock has behaved over time.
Together they round out a single-page research file: identity, fundamentals, price
action, technicals, institutional behavior, a statistical outlook, and an AI you can
talk to — all for one ticker, reachable from one search box.
A quick research workflow
- Search the ticker and skim the header — last close, the 6-month range bar, the
fundamental snapshot. - Read the technical stack — RSI/MACD/Bollinger, trend strength, support/resistance.
- Check the Institutional Activity Detector — accumulation, distribution, or neutral,
and how strong the signals are. - Glance at the 30-Day Prediction as a volatility range, not a target.
- Run one AI Stock Insight if you want a written synthesis at the depth you need.
- Open the chat and ask — let the ticker-aware assistant connect the dots, compare a
peer, or explain anything you skimmed.
What this page is — and what it isn't
To be completely clear, consistent with our
Terms & Conditions and
Full Disclaimer:
- TyBuff is a technology and analytics provider, not a registered investment
adviser, broker-dealer, or financial planner. The Screener does not consider your
personal circumstances, objectives, or risk profile. - Every output here — scores, indicators, the institutional-flow verdict, the prediction
cone, AI reports, and chat answers — is automatically generated from historical and
market data. None of it is a recommendation, a trading signal, or an instruction to
buy, sell, or hold anything. - The Institutional Activity Detector infers behavior from volume and price; it is not
a record of actual institutional trades. The 30-Day Prediction is a statistical
projection, explicitly not a guarantee. - Past data and model outputs do not guarantee future results. Markets carry
substantial risk, including the loss of your entire investment. - All of it is for educational and informational purposes only. Always do your own
research and consult a qualified financial professional before making investment
decisions.
In short: the Screener turns one search into a transparent, single-page research file —
and gives you an AI that already knows that page to explore it with. What any of it means
for you is always, and only, your call.