Smart money leaves footprints

See What Smart Money Is Doing —
Right On Your Chart

Insider buys, large options bets, politician trades and company buybacks — plotted directly on the price chart of any US stock or ETF. See who has been buying, and exactly when.
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Gekko.app stock analysis tool showing a US stock chart with the GekkoIndex gauge, smart money markers plotted on price, watchlist, Gekko Fair Value and an AI news summary
Trusted by 1,000+ traders Real filings. Real flow. Right on the chart.
4.8 / 5 average From 32 verified subscriber reviews

This has become part of my daily routine. Options flow right on the charts is something I actually look forward to checking. Hard to go back to piecing it together from three different sites.

Robert Hayes

I searched for something that shows insider and institutional activity without a Bloomberg terminal. This gets closer than most. See smart money signals on the charts is what got me with Gekko. Highly recommended!!

Daniel Brooks

I moved over from a couple of other platforms and haven't looked back. Having insider buys, options flow, and the index score visible on one chart cuts the noise way down. This one actually stuck.

Steven Ramirez

Gekko is awesome for finding solid trade setups other tools don't do. Instead of checking multiple sites for filings and flow, most of it is already plotted. See the smart money buys and sells on charts is very handy to have thanks a lot for developing this.

Brian Nash

I can tell gekko.app was developed by trading professionals with plenty of experience, I love how simple it is to use, better than expected for spotting institutional footprints. Mostly use the insider trades and options flow to spot opportunities.

William Porter

Gekko tracks smart money data in one place better than anything else I've tried at this price. Options flow ranked by premium and direction is the first thing I open. Charts are fast and the whole thing just feels well thought out.

Christopher Ellis

I open gekko every morning before the bell and honestly feel off if I skip it. Options flow feed plus the fair value number next to the index score gives me a quick filter that just works. One of the better tools I've added in a while.

David Reynolds

Mainly here for the insider buy markers and volume thrust signals. Having them right on the price chart is more practical than reading separate tables. No real complaints after three weeks of daily use.

Joseph Bennett

Like how the signals sit directly on the bars. No constant date cross-checking. Used the rotation and breadth tools a few times when the market got choppy. Straightforward product overall.

Anthony Morales

Does a clean job of putting smart money footprints on the chart where they belong. Buyback and politician trade markers are bonuses I didn't expect to use as often as I do. Genuinely useful.

Jason Harlan

This is a great app for swing trading which I'm into. The screener sorted by GekkoIndex has surfaced a few names I would have missed. Chart signals are clear. Being able to use the trade optimizer to set stops and profit targets is very useful.

Michael Torres

I check the options flow and GekkoIndex first thing every session. Having both the score and the fair value estimate in the same place speeds everything up. This one earned a permanent spot in the morning lineup.

Edward Quinn

I replaced a couple of paid data services with this and haven't missed them. The combination of index score, flow, and insider markers covers most of what I was piecing together before. Reliable and actually enjoyable to use.

Scott Delgado

The historical view of what tends to happen after a stock enters the buying zone is one of the more interesting parts. Not a crystal ball, but useful context. Feels built by someone who actually trades and understands the workflow.

Timothy Rhodes

I've been using stock trading software for years and Gekko is different from anything else out there. Politician trade markers and buyback data turned out to be features I didn't know I needed. Occasional lag on the heatmaps during high-volume periods, otherwise solid.

Donald Fletcher

Killer tool you guys developed!! Options flow and insider signals are the strongest parts. The rest of the tools are nice to have but seeing signals on charts does it for me.

Andrew Keller

Reviews submitted by Gekko subscribers. Individual experiences vary and are not indicative of future results.

What makes Gekko different

Every Signal On One Chart

Everywhere else you hunt through separate tables for insider filings, options activity and congressional disclosures, then try to remember where the price was at the time. Gekko draws them straight onto your chart, on the day each one became public.

GOOGL price chart with insider, options, politician and reversal markers plotted on the bars, plus the GekkoIndex line drawn over price

Every marker is clickable. Hover one to see who bought, how much, and on what date.

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Insider buys

A CEO, CFO or 10% owner buying their own company's stock with their own money — the one trade nobody makes by accident.

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Options flow

Unusually large call and put positions, measured against the size of the company itself rather than a flat dollar figure — so mid-caps show up, not just the mega-caps.

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Politician trades

Congressional and Senate disclosures, plotted on the day they became public — not the trade date, which can be up to 45 days earlier.

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Buybacks

The company itself announcing it is buying back its own shares, pulled straight from the SEC filing.

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Volume thrusts

A forceful one-day move on heavy volume, closing near its own extreme, arriving after the stock has been beaten down or run up.

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Candle patterns

Hammers, engulfing bars, kickers and morning and evening stars — the reversal candles worth knowing, filtered by where they printed and by the GekkoIndex so you only see the ones that mean something.

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Reversals

Price exhaustion after a run of consecutive new highs or new lows — a marker for where a move ran out of road.

GekkoIndex™

Our 0–100 smart money score, drawn as a line over price so you can see where the score turned relative to the stock.

Built to be read at a glance

Position tells you direction before colour does. Bullish markers sit below the bar, bearish above it — you can read the chart before you have processed a single colour.

Hover any marker and it opens with the detail behind it: the contract, the size, the date. Toggle each layer on or off, draw your own trendlines and levels, switch between daily and weekly bars, and move between one month and five years of history.

Every marker family owns its own shape, so the chart stays readable even when several land on the same day — and no bar is ever allowed to stack more than four.

Close-up of a Gekko chart showing options flow circles and a reversal triangle, with a tooltip open reading Bullish Flow, $545 call, expiring 7/17, 22 days out, $1.3M premium
New — exclusive to Gekko

Experience the Power of TrendCandles™

Our revolutionary new chart type to visualize the trend of any asset, spot potential turning points and developing trends early.

Gekko.app TrendCandles chart type colouring each candle by trend strength, showing a downtrend fading through yellow into a developing green uptrend

Deep green to deep red, with every shade between. The colour is the trend — read the whole chart in one pass.

The turn shows up before the breakout

Candles pale as a trend loses its grip and deepen as it takes hold, so a move that is quietly changing character looks different long before it clears an obvious level.

Works on every ticker, day one

No warm-up period, no minimum history requirement and no dependency on any other signal. Every US stock and ETF we cover, on daily or weekly bars.

Proprietary to Gekko

Built in-house and available nowhere else. Sit it alongside the smart money markers and you get positioning and trend in a single view.

Company fundamentals

Dig Deeper Into Any Company

Accurate, up-to-date fundamental data on every stock we cover. Revenue, profit, margins, growth and the metrics that actually matter — charted over years, not buried in a filing. Analysing a company becomes a breeze.

Gekko.app company fundamentals view showing charted revenue, profit, margins and growth metrics for a US stock alongside the price chart

Five tabs, around thirty charted metrics, revenue by segment and CAGR — on the same page as the chart.

The trend, not a snapshot

Every metric is plotted across years and quarters, so accelerating growth, quietly compressing margins and one-off blips are obvious at a glance instead of buried in a table of numbers.

See where the money comes from

Revenue broken out by product line and by geography, with compound growth on every series — so you know which part of the business is actually carrying the story.

Right beside the price

No switching to a separate research site and losing your place. Fundamentals sit on the same page as the chart, the GekkoIndex and the smart money markers.

Our flagship indicator

One score for the whole smart money picture

The GekkoIndex™ is a 0–100 score on every stock and ETF, updated through the trading day. It takes the institutional footprints scattered across filings, flow and price behaviour and turns them into one number you can read at a glance — the anchor the rest of our indicators for swing trading are built around.

Sort the market by it, filter by it, plot it over price, and check how a stock has historically behaved after entering each zone — 5, 10, 20, 30 and 50 trading days out.

Read the GekkoIndex™ whitepaper →
GekkoIndex™ Zones
Selling<33
Distribution33–45
Neutral45–60
Accumulation60–70
Buying70+
BuyingSmart money likely accumulating heavily
AccumulationInstitutional interest building
NeutralNo clear directional signal
DistributionInstitutions potentially offloading
SellingSmart money likely exiting positions

What is it actually worth?

Gekko Fair Value gives every stock a single estimate of its underlying value, drawn from a proprietary model that weighs a company's fundamentals against how the market is currently pricing it. One gauge tells you whether the price sits above or below that estimate, and by how much.

Gekko Fair Value gauge showing a stock 33.8% undervalued, with market cap, P/E, forward P/E, ROE, yield and beta

Why is it moving today?

Instead of scrolling twenty headlines, read one plain-English summary of what is driving any stock right now — written from the day's news and scored for sentiment. It takes about fifteen seconds to get the story.

AI-written news summary panel for Apple with a sentiment score, explaining the post-earnings move
Seasonality

Visualize seasonality trends right on your chart

See how any stock or ETF historically performed in the past for the same period going forward. The projection is drawn forward from today's close on the same stock charts you already read, so you never have to hold two windows side by side.

  • Average move over the next 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 trading days
  • How often it finished higher, and how that compares to its own baseline
  • Built from five years of history on every name we cover
Gekko.app seasonality tool showing the average forward return of a stock over the next 5 to 30 trading days, with the projected path drawn forward on the price chart
Smart money options

The big bets, ranked daily

A daily feed of unusually large options positions across the 2,000 most active tickers. Each one shows the exact contract, the premium behind it, how far volume ran ahead of open interest, and whether it reads bullish, bearish or contrarian.

  • Sized against each company, so mid-caps are not drowned out
  • Filter by ticker, direction, or the last 30 / 90 days
  • Every row carries the GekkoIndex and Fair Value alongside it
Gekko Smart Money Options feed listing unusual options flow by date, ticker, signal direction, top contract, premium and volume-to-open-interest
Screener

A pipeline of ideas to research

A stock screener that ranks all 5,800 US stocks and ETFs by GekkoIndex, then narrows by zone, sector, industry or market cap. Start from the names smart money has been active in rather than from a blank search box.

  • Top and bottom of the market in one click
  • Fair Value shown beside every result
  • Jump straight from any row to its chart
Gekko screener ranking 5,725 stocks and ETFs by GekkoIndex with zone, market cap, price, change, volume and fair value columns
Trade planner & backtester

Plan it before you act

Set a hypothetical entry, stop and target on any stock and see the risk-to-reward straight away. Then backtest that setup against the stock's own signal history to study how those levels would have behaved, and let the optimizer suggest the levels the history favoured.

Backtests are hypothetical and shown for research and education only. They do not predict or guarantee future results.

Gekko trade planner showing entry, target, stop, break-even and position size, with backtested optimal levels, trade count, win rate and average holding period
Market context

Zoom out to the whole market

Before you commit to a stock, it helps to know what the rest of the market is doing around it.

Gekko S&P 500 heatmap coloured by daily performance across sectors

Heatmaps

The whole S&P 500, the majors, or 276 themes — coloured by performance or by GekkoIndex, across seven timeframes.

Gekko sector rotation graph plotting the eleven sector ETFs across leading, weakening, lagging and improving quadrants

Rotation

Watch money move between sectors and asset classes as they cycle through leading, weakening, lagging and improving.

Gekko market breadth table showing the percentage of stocks in each S&P 500 sector at new highs and new lows across five timeframes

Breadth

See whether a rally is broad or being carried by a handful of names, sector by sector, across five timeframes.

Your dashboard

The whole session in one screen

Open Gekko and the day is already laid out: a written brief on what moved and why, the majors with their scores, the biggest theme movers, the top-ranked names, and a live feed of insider and options activity as it lands.

Track your own holdings in the portfolio tool too, with the GekkoIndex and Fair Value shown on every position so you can see where your whole book stands at a glance.

Gekko home dashboard with a written market brief, majors ticker strip, heatmap, theme movers, top GekkoIndex names, smart money feed and market news

An all in one stock research platform

Everything above is only part of it. One login covers the lot — no add-ons, no upsells, no separate tiers. Here is some of what else is waiting inside.

Insider trades Politician trades Billionaire portfolios Trailblazer funds Share buybacks Website traffic data Portfolio tracker Watchlists Market news & sentiment Economic dashboard Volatility dashboard 3D IV surface Market spreads Forecasts Whale positions Drawing tools Seasonality Candle patterns Company fundamentals Market breadth Sector rotation Trade backtester + many more

More again beyond this list, with new tools shipping regularly — all included.

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Gekko is Built for Active Swing Traders & Investors

Gekko was built by an experienced trader Jared Mann, who has 20+ years industry experience trading stocks and ETFs. This is the tool he uses everyday and is proud to share it with 1,000s of other active traders all around the world.

Jared was tired of using dozens of different tools to find all the data he needed to discover high quality trading opportunities, and hence Gekko was born as the all in one smart money research platform.

Pricing

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  • 5,800+ US stocks and ETFs
  • All 8 signal layers on every chart
  • GekkoIndex™ and Fair Value scores
  • Screener, portfolio and backtester
  • Watchlists, charts and drawing tools
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Questions, answered

Frequently asked questions

What exactly is Gekko?

Gekko is a research and analytics platform for US stocks and ETFs. It gathers the footprints that institutions, company insiders and politicians leave behind in public filings and market data, then plots them on charts and organises them into feeds, screens and scores. You get the proprietary GekkoIndex™, Gekko Fair Value, a screener, a backtester and a full market analysis toolkit across 5,800+ tickers, all in one dashboard.

Who is it for?

Active swing traders and self-directed investors in US stocks and ETFs who do their own research. If you already use something like TradingView, Finviz or Seeking Alpha and want a smart money view of the market alongside it, Gekko will feel familiar within a few minutes. Most people arrive looking for the best stock analysis tool for a swing trading strategy and stay for the signals they cannot get anywhere else.

Do I need a credit card for the trial?

No. Sign up with an email address and you have full access to every feature for 7 days. Nothing is charged, and there is nothing to cancel if you decide not to continue.

How much is it after the trial?

$99 a month, or $77 a month when you pay yearly. Both plans include everything — there are no upgrades or add-ons to buy. You can cancel in a couple of clicks from your account at any time.

What makes it different from other tools?

Two things. First, the chart: insider buys, options flow, politician disclosures, buybacks, volume thrusts and reversals are all drawn on the price itself, dated to when each became public — most platforms leave that data sitting in separate tables. Second, the proprietary layers you cannot get elsewhere: the GekkoIndex™ score and Gekko Fair Value, both calculated in-house and shown on every ticker. It is built by a long-time active trader with a financial industry background, not a data vendor.

Is there anything to install?

No. Gekko is a stock charting app that runs entirely in your browser on any device — sign up and you are looking at charts within seconds. A full walkthrough video is built into the dashboard, and support is a click away if you get stuck.

Reviews

What Gekko users have to say

Feedback from active stock traders and investors just like you who use Gekko every day.

Solid tool for tracking insider activity without constantly jumping between SEC filings and price charts. Signals are dated to the public disclosure, which is how it should be. Interface is clean once you settle on the layers you actually want visible every day.

James Whitaker

The trade planner and backtester surprised me in a good way. Not trying to predict anything, just checking historical context around similar signals. Gekko.app has quietly become one of those tools I don't want to trade without.

Thomas Grant

What you guys developed is pretty unique. Fair value estimate next to the GekkoIndex is a nice touch. Caught a couple of accumulation setups earlier because of it. Only feedback I would say is the mobile version works okay but feels less smooth than desktop.

Charles Hoffman

Daily dashboard summary is handy. Top GekkoIndex names and the live options flow give a quick read before I open individual charts. Haven't run into any major issues after six weeks.

Mark Sullivan

Gekko does a good job organizing public data that used to be scattered everywhere. Mostly watch the accumulation and buying zones. Fair value estimate works as a secondary check.

Paul Jennings

Run the screener most mornings sorted by GekkoIndex and sector. A few names have shown up early enough to be useful. Chart overlays are clear and the hover details save time.

Joshua Pratt

I enjoy using gekko regularly and use it to confirm whether there's any institutional footprint before sizing a position. Volume thrust and reversal markers have been more relevant than expected.

Kenneth Doyle

Good overall experience. Index score and fair value side by side make a quick filter. Options flow feed is well ranked. Would like a couple more dashboard customization options. I sent customer support and they responded it would be done soon.

Kevin Barron

Been using gekko for the chart signals and the daily brief. Nothing flashy, just well-organized data that used to take longer to put together. Fits my trading style cleanly.

George Whitman

This is my new go to trading tool. Insider and options data on the charts are the main draw. Screener works well. A few of the secondary tools feel less polished than the core features.

Ronald Barrett

I log into Gekko everyday, new features seem to get added without extra cost, which is appreciated. Mostly live in the charts and the screener. Interface is straightforward once the layers are set the way I want them.

Jeffrey Morse

Good platform for the price! Chart signals are clear and the GekkoIndex zones give a quick read. Heatmaps and rotation tools are secondary for me but still helpful on quiet days.

Patrick Boone

I use gekko to stay aware of institutional activity without spending half the morning on filings. Options flow and the index are the two features I rely on most. Does the job without drama.

Gregory Vance

Gekko is practical and focused. Signals on the chart, a usable screener, and the fair value number are enough for my process. Gekko.app feels like it was put together for people who already do their own research rather than beginners looking for tips.

Frank Carlton

Useful for what it is. GekkoIndex is a decent starting point and the options data beats free alternatives. Layout gets crowded if you turn every signal layer on at the same time.

Richard Caldwell

Does some things well, especially the chart markers for options and insiders. GekkoIndex still feels a bit like a black box and the screener could use more filter options. Still better than assembling the data myself from multiple sources every day.

Matthew Snyder

Reviews submitted by Gekko subscribers. Individual experiences vary and are not indicative of future results.

Start seeing the footprints

The largest investors in the market leave a trail in public filings and market data. Gekko collects that trail, dates it, and puts it on the chart in front of you. Take a week and see what your own watchlist looks like with it turned on.

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