Welcome to ManVsMarket

Daily stock and ETF boards built on ManVsMarket's process, live member chats, and research tools you can point at the tickers you care about. This guide explains every screen, button, report and setting.

Joining and logging in

1. Click Login / Join at the top of the left column on ManVsMarket.
2. Choose a username (the name other members see), enter your email twice, pick a password, answer the small math question, and agree to the Terms of Service and Policies.
3. Open the confirmation email from ManVsMarket and click the link. Check your spam folder if it isn't there within a few minutes.
4. Log in with your email and password. You start as a Bronze member, free.

Forgot your password? Click Forgot password? in the login box and follow the email. Show next to a password box shows what you typed.

Finding your way around

The left column lists the public channels in four groups: Free Channels, Bronze Daily Reports, Silver Channels and Gold Channels. Click a group name to open or close it. A group with something new is marked with a gold edge. A channel above your level shows what it covers and how to unlock it.

If you are not logged in, you still see those four groups. Opening a report shows what it covers. Chats, Messages, and the tools stay closed until you join.

Each channel is either a Chat (members talk) or a Report (a ManVsMarket board that updates on a schedule).

Under your name, the icon row runs left to right: Bloomberg TV, Chart, Quick View, Earnings, Spread the Word, and Help (see The icon row). Help opens this guide in a new tab, and so does the ? key when you are not typing in a box. The small version label stays at the far right of that row.

Below the channel list: Dark mode, Sound, and − / + to make text smaller or larger (see Dark mode, text size, sound). Click your picture or name for your Profile. Messages opens your private messages (see Messages).

On a phone, tap Channels to open the channel list.

Membership levels

Every member starts at Bronze, free. Silver and Gold unlock more boards, more chats and the research tools. You can upgrade any time; your level changes within about an hour.

Compare every feature

Every public channel and report, side by side. Click a group's name to fold it. Click a report's name to read about it.

A day with ManVsMarket

All times are Eastern, on market days.

• About 7:00 AM The morning boards refresh with overnight and pre-market moves. Morning Consensus then shows where ManVsMarket's independent screens agree. Gold
• Before the bell Daily Picks for the day ahead. Bronze sample, Silver full list.
• 9 AM The first market card of the day posts in All Member Chat, Silver Members and Gold Members.
• 10 AM to 3 PM A fresh market card every hour in the Silver and Gold chats. Silver Gold
• After the close The evening boards: HH/HL, Night Risers, Signal 60+, Classic Patterns, Consistent Risers and more.
• Any time Custom Reports and MVM Charting on the tickers you choose. Gold
• Your inbox Any report you pick, by email, bundled into one message or one email per report.

How to upgrade

1. Join ManVsMarket free first and confirm your email.
2. Open Silver & Gold Membership SignUp in Free Channels, or use the Upgrade buttons above. Checkout is on Patreon.
3. On Patreon, use the same email as your ManVsMarket account. If you use a different one, open your Profile and click Update Patreon Email Address.
4. Your level changes within about 60 minutes of Patreon processing the payment. Log out and back in if the new channels don't appear.

Change or cancel

Memberships are managed on Patreon. Change your tier or cancel there, and your ManVsMarket level follows within about an hour. Your account, saved searches and saved lists stay, and you keep Bronze for free.

Reports by level

Every public ManVsMarket report, grouped the way the left column groups them. Each description is the report's own About text from the site, so it's always current.

How to read any report

• Ticker opens a TradingView chart. Y! opens the ticker on Yahoo Finance.
• Click any column heading to sort by it; click again to reverse. The Avg row stays at the bottom.
• About (top of the report) explains what the report looks for.
• Options saves the report to your computer or opens it in its own window.
• Earlier editions stay in the channel, so you can look back at what a board showed on another day.
• The Column guide at the bottom of a report explains every column. Many terms are also in the Glossary.
• Turn on Display Earnings alerts on Screen in your Profile to be warned when a ticker on a report has earnings coming up.
• On boards with an MVM Chart column, check rows (or All) and click MVM Chart to compare them on one chart. Gold

Reports by email

Pick the reports you want by email in your Profile (see Email notifications). Bundled sends the day's checked reports in one email; Individual sends one email per report. Every email has an Unsubscribe link.

Chats

• Announcements: news from ManVsMarket, including features and pricing.
• Welcome - Read First: start here when you join.
• Silver & Gold Membership SignUp: the links to upgrade.
• All Member Chat and General Q&A: open to every member. Ask anything.
• Silver Members Silver and Gold Members Gold: member chats with hourly market cards.
• Jeff's Trades Gold: the trades and the reasoning behind them.

Posting, replies and reactions

• Type in the box at the bottom and press Enter (or the send button). Add pictures with the picture button.
• Paste a YouTube link and it plays right in the chat.
• Hover over a post (tap it on a phone) to show the action pill: Reply starts a thread under that post, React adds an emoji, and on your own posts Edit fixes a typo. Edited posts are marked.
• Click a member's name to see their card and send them a message.
• Be kind, stay on topic, and don't post anyone's private information. ManVsMarket can remove posts and members that break the rules.

Hourly market cards

On market days ManVsMarket posts a market card at 9 AM in All Member Chat, Silver Members and Gold Members, then every hour from 10 AM to 3 PM in the Silver and Gold chats.

Messages

Private conversations between members.

1. Click Messages under your name.
2. Click New Message, type the member's name on the To line, write your note, and send.
3. Your first message is a request. Once the other member clicks Accept, you can message freely, and pictures can be shared.

You can get an email when a new message arrives: turn on Message notification in your Profile.

The icon row

Six buttons under your name, left to right: Bloomberg TV, Chart, Quick View, Earnings, Spread the Word, and Help. The first five open in their own small window, so you keep your place on the site. Help opens this guide in a new tab. If a window does not open, allow pop-ups for manvsmarket.net. Press ? on the site, when you are not typing in a box, to open Help.

Quick View Silver Gold

Type any ticker and get a one-screen read: price and change, trend, ManVsMarket's ratings and guidance such as Wait for Recovery, with a chart. You can email it to yourself or save a picture of it. Silver: 10 a day. Gold: 25 a day.

Chart

A TradingView chart in a small window, for any ticker. Bronze and Silver: 25 a day. Gold: unlimited.

Earnings

The week's earnings calendar, by day, split into before the open and after the close. Click a ticker for its chart. The button lights up when there's something new.

Bloomberg TV

The live Bloomberg TV stream in a small window.

Spread the Word

Share ManVsMarket with friends by text, email or social media in one click.

MVM Charting Gold

Compare up to 40 stocks and ETFs on one percent chart. Every line starts at 0% on the first day of the window, so you see at a glance which names led and which lagged. Open it from Custom Reports › MVM Charting, or check rows on a report and click MVM Chart to open the chart in its own window.

• Window buttons 1W, 2W, 3W, 1M, 3M, 6M, 12M, 15M, 18M, 21M and 2Y, or set your own Start and End. Windows of 3 months or less plot one point per day; longer windows plot one point per week.
• Add more tickers any time, separated by commas or spaces. Uncheck a name in the On this chart list to remove it.
• Sort the list by growth, or click the arrow to sort by name.
• Save PNG saves a picture of the chart.
• Save list and Saved lists keep your favorite groups of tickers (up to 25 lists).

Custom Reports Gold

ManVsMarket's own data and ratings, pointed at the stocks and ETFs you choose. Open Report · Custom Reports in Gold Channels, pick a tool at the top, fill in the form and press Run. Each tool can be run 5 times a day; the count resets at midnight Eastern.

ETF Report

Type up to 25 ETF tickers, separated by commas or spaces (for example SPY, QQQ, IWM). The report opens in a new window, and Download is at the top of that window. It shows how smoothly each fund climbs (Mountain and Trend R²), up days versus down days, returns over many windows, yield, worst drop, how it held up when SPY fell, and what $10,000 invested a year ago is worth now. Each member can run it 5 times a day.

ETF Scanner

Search the whole ETF list. ManVsMarket Supplied pre-set searches fill the fields for you (smooth climbers, holds up when SPY falls, steady income payers, low-cost core funds, hottest and coldest sector funds, category leaders, and more). Change anything, then press Run ETF Scanner.

Or set the fields yourself:

• Risk: Min SPY hold %, max drawdown %, top N, and SPY correlation over 20 days (at least and at most, from −1 to 1).
• Returns: short (1D, 1W, 2W, 1M, 2M), mid (3M through 7M) and long (8M through 12M). Each window has a minimum % and a maximum %. Leave a box blank for no limit.
• Trend and sort: Mountain, Trend R², sort order, top % of its category on the 12-month return, a rising 20-day average, and 20/50/200-day averages all rising over 3 months.
• Fund facts: fund type, category contains, expense ratio at most %, Minimum Yearly Dividend Yield %, fund size, holdings at most, premium to NAV, launched within a number of days, and a switch to leave out leveraged and inverse funds. A fund with that fact missing is left out when you use the field. You can also include newer ETFs that may not meet the monthly % requirements.
• Lookup tools: sector and sector weight, industry and industry weight, a stock ticker the fund holds, and country and country weight.

Each member can run it 5 times a day. Save search keeps the fields. My Saved Searches loads them again. Reset to defaults clears what you typed.

Stock Scanner

Search every stock. ManVsMarket Supplied pre-set searches fill the fields (ManVsMarket's process, growing sales and EPS, smooth mountain climbers, recovering from a dip, and more). Change anything, then press Run Stock Scanner.

• Ratings: Composite, EPS Rating, RS Rating, Group RS, SMR and Acc/Dis.
• ManVsMarket's process: how far above the price from a year ago, up days versus down days, and 20/50/200-day averages all rising over 3 months.
• RSI: a minimum, a maximum, and whether RSI is rising over 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month or 3 months.
• Earnings and sales: EPS growth %, sales growth %, quarters in a row, both growing, EPS growth speeding up, and profitable (latest EPS above zero). Growth is the latest quarter versus the same quarter a year earlier.
• Rise or fall: a minimum % and a maximum % from 1 day through 12 months. A minimum finds a rise. A maximum finds a fall.
• Trend: within a percent of the 52-week high, max drawdown, SPY hold, SPY correlation, Mountain and Trend R².
• Company: sector, market cap, P/E, ROE, share price, 50-day dollar volume, and new issues listed within the past year.
• Chart pattern: an optional extra check on names that already pass the other fields. Pattern searches can take up to a minute.
• Report: Top N, up to 100, and the sort order.

Each member can run it 5 times a day. Save search and My Saved Searches work here too. Clear the fields starts over.

Stock Report

Type up to 25 stock tickers, separated by commas or spaces (for example CRS, NVDA, AEVA). Stocks only. ManVsMarket shows them in the Stock Scanner layout, with every rating ranked against all the stocks it tracks. The report opens in a new window, and Download is at the top. Save list and Saved lists run the same names again. Each member can run it 5 times a day.

Stock Analysis

Type one stock or ETF ticker (for example FORM). The analysis can take 1 to 2 minutes. The report opens in a new window, and Download is at the top. The card covers the ManVsMarket checklist (one year up 15% or more, rising RSI, rising 20, 50 and 200-day averages), the chart story in plain English, earnings and sales, and upcoming earnings. Each member can run it 5 times a day.

Stock Portfolios and ETF Portfolios

Enter up to 50 holdings and the number of shares you hold. Stock Portfolios use the Stock Scanner layout. ETF Portfolios use the ETF Scanner layout. The report shows what the portfolio is worth now and its profit or loss over 3 days through 12 months, with totals. On a weekday between 4:00 AM and 4:00 PM Eastern, the price now is the most recent Yahoo price. At other times it is the latest close. The report opens in a new window, and Download is at the top. Save portfolio and Saved portfolios run the same holdings again. Each member can run each portfolio tool 5 times a day.

Saved searches and lists

Scanner forms have Save search and My Saved Searches. Stock Report and MVM Charting have Save list and Saved lists. Portfolios have Save portfolio and Saved portfolios. You can keep up to 25 of each kind. A saved name can be up to 30 characters. Load, Rename or Delete them any time.

The report window

Your report opens in a new browser tab and stays available for 30 minutes. The bar at the top lets you download it or email it to yourself as an attachment (turn on Allow Reports to be sent via Email from Report Screen in your Profile first). Boards with an MVM Chart column can send checked rows straight to MVM Charting.

Account and settings

Click your picture or name to open your Profile.

• Choose picture: a jpg, png or webp. It's shown at 50 by 50.
• The panel at the upper right: Change username, Change email (we send a confirmation to the new address), Change password, and Update Patreon Email Address (the email you use on Patreon, so your membership is matched to you).
• Display Earnings alerts on Screen: On shows a warning on reports when a ticker has earnings coming up.

Email notifications

• Message notification: an email when someone sends you a message.
• Announcements: an email when ManVsMarket posts an announcement.
• Allow Reports to be sent via Email from Report Screen: lets you email a report to yourself from the report window.
• The channel list: tick each report you want by email. Then choose Bundled (the checked reports in one email) or Individual (one email per report), and press Save notifications.
• Every email has an Unsubscribe link for that email, and Unsubscribe All to stop them all.

Dark mode, text size, sound

• Dark mode / Light mode switches the colors. Your choice is remembered on your account.
• − and + make the text smaller or larger on this device.
• Sound plays a short note when something new arrives: a low note for a report, the middle note for a chat post, and two notes for an alert. Click to turn it on or off.

Glossary

HH/HL

Higher highs and higher lows: each peak and each dip lands higher than the last one. The core of an uptrend, and the first thing ManVsMarket looks for on a chart.

Gift entry

The early lift off a higher low or a base, before most of the bounce is done. ManVsMarket always looks for it rather than chasing a move that's mostly over.

In buying range

On the HH/HL board: the stock has taken back more than 65%, but not all, of its pullback from the higher low toward its previous high.

Early

On the HH/HL board: taken back 65% or less of that pullback. Still listed, under In buying range.

Pullback from Previous High - New Base Developing

A run-up to a high, a pullback from it, then a calm sideways base. This often comes before a breakout.

New Base Developing Off Bottom

After a hard drop and a bounce, the stock settles into a small base near the low instead of rising straight away. The fight to climb back.

Smooth Mountain

A steady, predictable climb with shallow dips, not a choppy ride.

Mountain

ManVsMarket's score for how smooth and steady a climb has been. Higher is smoother.

Trend R²

How closely prices followed a straight upward line, from 0 to 100. Higher means a more orderly trend.

U/D

Up days divided by down days. 1.4 means 1.4 up days for every down day.

SPY-Def / SPY hold

How well a stock or ETF held up on days SPY (the S&P 500 fund) fell.

SPY correlation

How closely daily moves tracked SPY: 1.00 moves with SPY, 0 has no relation, negative moves the other way.

ATR21%

The typical daily price range over the last 21 sessions, as a percent of the price. A measure of how much it swings.

Max DD

Maximum drawdown: the worst drop from a high to a later low in the window.

TTM Yld

Dividends paid over the trailing twelve months, as a percent of today's price. On ETF Scanner this field is Minimum Yearly Dividend Yield %.

Liq

Liquidity: average dollars traded per day. Low means fewer shares change hands.

RSI

Relative Strength Index (14-day), a 0 to 100 measure of recent momentum. ManVsMarket prefers an RSI that has been rising over the past 3 months.

20, 50 and 200-day averages

The average closing price over those spans. ManVsMarket likes all three rising over the past 3 months.

Above 1 year ago

How far today's price is above the price a year ago. ManVsMarket's first filter is at least 15%.

Composite, EPS, RS, Group RS

ManVsMarket's own 1 to 99 ratings: an overall blend, earnings growth, price strength against all stocks, and the strength of the stock's industry group. Higher is stronger.

SMR and Acc/Dis

Letter grades from A (best) to E: sales, margins and return on equity; and whether big money has been buying (accumulation) or selling (distribution).

Wait for Recovery

Quick View and board guidance meaning the stock has dropped and hasn't yet shown it is recovering. Wait for it to turn up first.

Gap

When a stock opens well above (gap up) or below (gap down) the previous close.

FAQ and troubleshooting

Policies

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