How to use Catalyst

1. 1

   Create your account

   1 min

   The beta is invite-only, so public sign-ups are off: request access and you will be sent an invite code, then sign in with email, a one-time code or Google. The calendar and the full public record are readable without an account — an account only adds your own holdings, watchlist and stars.

   Request beta access
2. 2

   Connect your broker

   2 min

   Integrations is where every connection lives, split into your feeds and the app's feeds. Trading212 takes a read-only API key (Settings → API in Trading212 — leave every trading scope off). Interactive Brokers uses a Flex Web Service token and a Flex Query id, with an on-screen checklist for both. No broker? Drop in a statement CSV or upload a screenshot of your holdings and confirm what's read off it. Broker data always takes priority over CSV or screenshot imports.

   Open Integrations
3. 3

   Choose how you're reminded

   1 min

   Turn on device push, pick how far ahead you want warnings, and switch on the daily broker auto-sync if you want holdings refreshed each morning. Install the app to your home screen if you want alerts on your phone. You can also subscribe to your events as a calendar feed: Settings gives you a private subscription link that Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook refresh on their own schedule, so your dated events sit alongside the rest of your diary.

   Open Settings

1. 4

   Open the calendar

   1 min

   Tip of the day picks the single event most worth your attention. Below it, reminders flag anything in the next 7 days touching a ticker you hold, watch or starred. Switch between list and wall views, filter by sector, star events into Favourites, and use the My calendar tab for your own dated entries.

   Open the calendar
2. 5

   Look closer before the event

   1 min

   Rate impact on any event for the company's real beat history plus an AI read on direction, confidence and magnitude — with clickable sources. Every event card also shows how the share has actually moved on past events of the same type, and, where options are quoted, the move the options market is pricing in. Check Insiders for director buying, and Event risk if too much of your portfolio lands on one day.

   Check event risk
3. 6

   Decide, then review

   1 min

   Positions shows a generic scenario signal on each security you hold — constructive, two-sided, cautious, or no view when the evidence is thin — with a risk label. It is never a personal recommendation. It reads the company and its events, not your holding, so what you do about it is your decision. Ideas surfaces new companies around upcoming catalysts. Afterwards, every outlook is graded against the real price move on the Record.

   Review your positions

• Coverage is strongest on US listings. UK and EU tickers have thinner earnings and insider detail.
• Dates move. The feed re-syncs every morning and updates events in place.
• Prices are cached, not live ticks. Treat values as indicative rather than exact.
• Ratings are a starting point. Check the Record hit rate and read the reasoning, not just the direction.

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Risk level

How uncertain the AI is about its own call. Low means the data is consistent and the direction looks clear; high means the event is noisy, conflicting, or unusually binary.

AI impact

The model's read of how strongly an event is likely to move the stock, which way, and over what horizon. It blends historical beat/miss rates, recent sentiment, and comparable past events.

Importance

How much market attention the event typically commands. Earnings and macro prints score high; minor filings or routine conferences score lower.

Portfolio exposure

The slice of your connected portfolio that is exposed to a ticker or a single event. A large position ahead of a high-impact day means higher exposure.

Stars / Favourites

Your personal watch flag. Starring an event parks it in the Favourites tab so you can track it without it needing to be in your portfolio.

My calendar

Your own dated entries — research, review, trade plan or personal — with an optional reminder. Any market event can be cloned into it, and prep/review days are auto-created for tickers you hold.

Date confirmed / estimated

On the Milestone map, confirmed means the company or regulator has published the date; estimated means we've modelled it from trial timelines or filing patterns and it can move.

Past moves

How the share actually moved on previous events of the same type, and how comparable companies in the sector moved on theirs. Green is +2.5% or better, red is -2.5% or worse, amber is the range in between.

Options-implied move

The percentage move the options market is pricing in around a dated event, read from the at-the-money straddle. Where it exists it is shown ahead of any modelled estimate, because it is a live market price rather than our view.

Base rate

For event types we do not rate, the historical distribution of moves for that kind of event — what usually happens, rather than a call on what will happen.

Index events

Additions to, deletions from and rebalances of major indices (S&P, FTSE Russell, MSCI), taken from each provider's own dated notices. Index flows can move a share independently of anything the company does.

Lock-up expiry

The date after an IPO when insiders are first free to sell, read from the prospectus. It is a dated supply event, not a prediction that anyone will sell.

Calendar subscription

A private link from Settings that publishes your events into Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. It is read-only, refreshes on your calendar app's schedule, and can be revoked at any time by regenerating the link.

Everything here is research tooling. Read the full disclaimer and the methodology, and get in touch via support if something looks wrong.