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Getting Started

Four steps, about five minutes.

Prefer to watch first? The five-minute walkthrough below covers everything on this page.

1. Sign in

Open StockClaw and click Continue with Google, or tap Sign in with email. With email you can sign in with a password, create an account with Create an account (we email you a link to confirm the address), or ask for a one-time sign-in link instead. Forgot your password? Tap Forgot password? and follow the link in the email. You can also add or change a password later in Settings → Account, including on an account you opened with Google. Your browser or phone can save the password for you.

New accounts are asked for their country or region of residence before the app opens.

Your personal space is created automatically on first login — an empty "My watchlist", default settings, no shared state with anyone else. StockClaw uses PostgreSQL row-level security so every query is filtered to your user id at the database layer; you cannot see another user's signals and they cannot see yours.

The first time you open the dashboard, a short tour (five bubbles) points out where to add stocks, the signal feed and its tiers, the panels, Claw and the notification settings. You can skip it at any step. It is shown once per account, whether you use the web app or the Android app; to see it again, use Replay the feature tour in Settings → About or in Help.

2. Add tickers

On the dashboard tap Add symbol (or use the search box on the Watchlist page) and search by symbol or English company name: NVDA, nvidia, 0700.HK, 2330.TW. US, Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea listings are supported; see Watchlist.

A new, empty watchlist also shows a few popular examples: NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, SPY and TSLA. Tap one to follow it; it is added like any other ticker and counts toward the free limit. Nothing is added unless you tap, and you can remove it any time. They are widely covered names, given as examples, not suggestions.

When you add a ticker we:

  • Check that the symbol is a listed stock or ETF, and build search aliases from the company name (e.g. LITE → Lumentum, Lumentum Holdings)
  • Trigger an immediate crawl so the first signals for that ticker can appear within a few minutes instead of waiting for the next 20-minute Beat cycle

The free version follows up to 5 tickers (limits). The pipeline runs a per-user fanout: ingestion happens once globally, but synthesis runs individually against your watchlist so the scoring reflects your specific context.

All settings are on one page. Open it from the Settings tab, or tap the account button at the top right (your Google photo, or a person icon) and choose Settings. On a computer the ⚙ icon in the header opens the same page.

Telegram delivery is not part of the free version (limits); on the free version Settings → Telegram integration says so and the steps below don't apply. With Telegram included, from Settings → Telegram integration:

  1. Open Telegram and click @stockclaw_notify_bot, then hit Start. This is required — Telegram does not allow bots to DM users who haven't started the conversation.
  2. Open @userinfobot and send /start; it replies with Id: 123456789.
  3. Copy the number, paste into StockClaw's chat_id field, optionally add your @username, click Link.

FLASH and ALERT signals (the default tiers) will now be delivered as grouped Telegram messages, one per tier, at your push frequency (every 30 minutes by default). Tiers and frequency are under Settings → Alert tiers & frequency; messages use your app language (Settings → Display).

4. Enable phone & browser notifications (optional)

The dashboard shows a card asking Get alerts on this phone? — tap Turn on and allow the permission prompt (on Android 13+ the system prompt follows). Not now hides it for 14 days. You can also turn it on any time from Settings → Phone & browser notifications → Enable, and use Send test there to check the device receives them.

These notifications mirror your Telegram digest: same tiers, same frequency, same watchlist filter and same language, whether or not you have linked Telegram. On the free version they cover FLASH and ALERT, at most every 30 minutes. FLASH is no exception; it arrives with your next digest. Clicking a notification about one signal deep-links to that signal card; a notification covering several signals opens the dashboard. See Phone & browser notifications for details.

Works on:

  • Desktop Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari
  • Android Chrome and other modern browsers
  • iOS Safari, but only after you install StockClaw as a PWA (Share → Add to Home Screen) — iOS 16.4+
  • The StockClaw Android app (Google Play, in testing) — same steps; Android asks for notification permission

That's it

Your first signals should start appearing on the dashboard within one to three minutes of adding tickers. Each card shows:

  • Urgency (FLASH / ALERT / NOTE / FYI) and signal type
  • A short summary in your app language
  • Per-ticker impact bars with relevance tier (direct / sector / mentioned)
  • Impact and confidence scores, plus a collapsible 5-agent breakdown
  • The original source article with a visual preview card

Ready to go deeper? See How it works.