Frequently asked questions about Gekko

Gekko is a stock charting and research platform for US stocks and ETFs. It gathers the footprints that institutions, company insiders, politicians and the options market 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, GEX Levels and the Dark Pool Index, 24 chart indicators, a screener, AI-generated trade ideas, alerts, a backtester and a full market analysis toolkit across 5,800+ tickers, all in one dashboard.

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.

Three things. First, the chart: insider buys, options flow, politician disclosures, analyst calls, 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 indicator library: GEX Levels and the Dark Pool Index from the options chain and off-exchange data, plus Gekko's own TrendCandles™, Gekko Bands, S&R Clouds, Smart Money Score and Dynamic Swing Index. Third, the proprietary scores you cannot get elsewhere: the GekkoIndex™ and Gekko Fair Value, 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.

US-listed stocks and ETFs — about 5,800 names, including the major indexes' constituents, the widely traded ETFs and the mid- and small-caps that trade with real volume. Coverage is US-listed only; there is no futures or forex coverage.

Yes. GEX Levels draws the Call Wall, Put Wall and Gamma Flip on the chart for around 2,000 optionable US stocks and ETFs, recalculated from the full options chain every night, with the net gamma regime, max pain and an optional strike profile. The Dark Pool Index shows a stock's daily off-exchange short-volume ratio from FINRA data against its own normal range. Both are included in every plan and the trial. More about GEX Levels & Dark Pool →

Many subscribers do. Chart tabs and saved layouts, seven chart types including TrendCandles™, drawing tools with resize handles, moving averages, resizable panes, alerts, PNG export and the 24-indicator library cover what most traders use day to day — with the smart money data, GEX levels and the GekkoIndex on top. What Gekko does not offer is tick-by-tick real-time quotes or trade execution; prices update every fifteen minutes through the session. More about the charts →

No. Gekko is a stock charting app that runs entirely in your browser — sign up and you are looking at charts within seconds. It is built for a desktop or laptop screen. An FAQ and a What's New page are built into the dashboard, and support chat is a click away if you get stuck.

No. Gekko provides educational research and analytics tools. It describes data — what insiders, funds, politicians and options traders have done, and where a stock sits on Gekko's own measures — and it does not make buy or sell recommendations. Gekko.app is operated by Greenstone Digital Limited (New Zealand), which is not a licensed financial adviser, broker or dealer. The full wording is in the Terms of Service.

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.

Nothing is charged and nothing needs cancelling. Your access pauses until you choose a plan inside Gekko; your watchlists and portfolio are kept, so subscribing later picks up where you left off.

$99 a month, or $77 a month when you pay yearly ($929 billed once, which saves $259 against twelve monthly payments). Both plans include everything — there are no upgrades or add-ons to buy. The pricing page has the full comparison.

You can cancel in a couple of clicks from your account at any time; access continues to the end of the period you have paid for. Billing periods are not refunded, which is why the free week comes first — use it to make sure Gekko is right for you before choosing a plan.

Yes, from the billing portal in your account at any time. The change is prorated, so you pay or are credited only the difference for the rest of the current period.

Gekko's proprietary 0 to 100 score of the smart money picture on a stock: an estimate of how much institutional buying or selling is behind recent trading. Every reading falls into one of five zones — Selling, Distribution, Neutral, Accumulation and Buying — and the score is refreshed every fifteen minutes through the US session for roughly 5,800 US stocks and ETFs, with a final reading after the close. How the score is built is Gekko's own and is not published; the methodology page explains what the zones mean and how to read them.

A single estimate of what a company's shares are worth, produced by Gekko's proprietary valuation model from the company's fundamentals and how the market prices companies with its profile. It runs again after every close. What matters is the gap: how far the last close sits above or below the estimate, and which way that gap is moving. It is an estimate for research, not a price target or a prediction.

Prices and the GekkoIndex refresh every fifteen minutes through the US session; Gekko Fair Value, the options signals and the GEX levels are recalculated after every close. Insider filings, congressional disclosures, buybacks and fund positions are dated to when each became public. Analyst ratings refresh twice a day; earnings dates, estimates and news daily; dark pool data daily and short interest twice a month.

Gekko licenses its market data from established providers and reads public filings — Form 4 insider filings, 13F fund filings, congressional disclosures and SEC buyback announcements. Gekko does not publish real-time quotes or whole datasets, and it does not sell data.

Gekko's stock analysis pages carry, for 2,500 of the largest US stocks, the GekkoIndex zone and what followed past readings, Gekko Fair Value, a smart money summary, earnings history, analyst consensus, seasonality and the week's headlines — rebuilt after every close, free, no account needed. The charts with every signal plotted, the full feeds, the screener, ideas and alerts are inside Gekko.

Yes. Inside Gekko you can set an alert straight from the chart on a price level, a GekkoIndex reading or a Fair Value premium, and receive it in the app or by email. Alerts are checked every fifteen minutes through the session, and a plotted trade's stop and target can be alerted in one click.

Every Gekko account comes with an affiliate link. Share it, and when someone subscribes through it you earn 50% of every payment they make, up to $1,000 per referral, paid monthly by PayPal. The affiliate page has the details.

Email support@gekko.app — every message is read and typically answered within one business day — or use the AI assistant on the contact page for instant answers. Spotted an error on a stock page? Every page has a "Report an error" link that goes straight to the founder.