Investors Guide to Using this Website

sgstocksbrief.com organises publicly available exchange announcements and stock prices so you can time a purchase after you have decided on a stock, monitor something you already own, or spot announcements worth a closer look. It covers SGX (Mainboard and Catalist, plus tracked index ETFs and unit trusts) and the US venues — NYSE, Nasdaq and Cboe BZX. It is an information-organisation tool, not investment advice.

What is free, and what registration adds

The calendars, the company lists, every company page with its Price & Event History table and CSV download, the Commentary, the Glossary and Singapore's headline economic series are free to read with no account at all.

Registering with an email address — there is no payment and no card — additionally unlocks:

• The price chart on every company page, at any of the four date ranges, with numbered announcement markers.
• Market at a Glance — the whole SGX board on one screen.
• The Top Movers screens for SGX, NYSE, Nasdaq and Cboe, with their AI commentary and spreadsheet exports.
• The paper-trading portfolio.
• A saved watchlist of up to 15 companies on each US calendar.
• The rest of the Economy dashboard — the deeper Singapore series and 25 other economies.
• One free AI report summary.

The calendars

The AGM / EGM, Dividends, Reports and Other Announcements calendars list upcoming and recent events across all tracked SGX companies, each linking straight back to the underlying SGX or company page. Use them to see what is coming before it happens — an ex-date you need to be on the register for, a results date you want to be watching.

The NYSE, Nasdaq and CBOE/BATS calendars work the other way round: you pick the companies first, then read their AGM/proxy filings, dividends, reports and other announcements across four tabs. Registered users can save up to 15 companies as a watchlist, so the calendar opens on the names they follow instead of asking again each visit.

Company pages

Each company page shows a price chart and a combined Price & Event History table. Pick a single date range — 2 weeks, 3 months, 1 year or 3 years — from the Show selector and both the chart and the table follow it. You can filter by event type and download the data as a CSV spreadsheet (daily open/high/low/close prices, traded volume and dated announcements) for use in Excel or your own analysis tool.

• The yellow highlighting indicates an upward trend: prices are rising.
• Rows with no prices are announcements taken from SGX. Some announcements cause prices to rise.
• Announcements in the Announcement Events list are numbered oldest-first, and the same numbers appear as dotted markers on the price chart — so you can see where a filing sits against the price.
• SGX announcements are refreshed about three times each weekday; prices about nine times each weekday.
• The trading hours of the Singapore Stock Exchange are 9am to 12pm and 1pm to 5pm.

US company pages follow the same shape, with SEC filings in place of SGX announcements and a 3 months / 1 year / 3 years range selector. A filing can be summarised in place, without downloading the PDF yourself.

To compare names rather than read one, tick two or three rows on the Companies / ETFs list and press Display stocks. That puts their charts and histories side by side in narrower columns under one shared date range.

Market at a Glance

Every other screen on this site is a filtered list; Market at a Glance is the whole board at once, in the shape the newspapers print — 52-week high and low, last sale, the day's change, range and volume, then dividend cover, gross yield, net P/E, price-to-book and market cap. Switch between Mainboard and Catalist, and sort by any column to run a crude screen: sort by gross yield for income names, by P/BV for cheap ones, by volume to see where the day's activity actually went. A dash means the figure is not available — most often an ETF or unit trust, which has no balance sheet to compute from.

Top Movers

Three screens, by horizon: Daily (1 day, 2 days, 3 days or 1 week), Short-Term (1, 2 or 3 months) and Medium-Term (6 months, 1 year or 2 years). Each exists for SGX and separately for NYSE, Nasdaq and Cboe.

A raw percentage change is a poor signal on its own, because it is dominated by illiquid prints and one-off spikes, so the screens add:

• A minimum average daily turnover filter — set the floor yourself, and thinly traded counters drop out.
• % of days above the moving average (50-day on the short screen, 200-day on the medium one) — a move that held above its average for most of the window is a different thing from one that spiked at the end.
• Maximum drawdown — the largest peak-to-trough fall inside the window, so a steady compounder ranks ahead of a volatile name that merely finished at the same price.
• Separate Companies, Index ETFs and Unit Trusts rankings — a trending sector often shows up in the fund counters before any single stock does.

You can generate a short AI commentary on the table you are looking at, and download the recent rankings as a spreadsheet.

Paper trading

The paper-trading portfolio lets you place pretend Buy/Sell orders from any SGX or US company page at the latest close and track virtual cash, holdings and profit/loss. Board lot sizes and a brokerage fee are applied so the numbers behave like a real account, and USD positions are converted so the totals are in one currency. No real money is involved and no order reaches an exchange — when you want to trade for real, use a low-cost broker.

The wider context: Economy, Commentary, Glossary

Economy is the macro backdrop behind the stock screens. Singapore's monthly inflation, unemployment and trade balance are open to everyone; registration adds Singapore's tech, services, sector, property, jobs and money series, GDP and inflation with IMF forecasts, and 25 more economies Singapore trades with.

Stocks Commentary republishes weekly written analysis of the STI constituents and the wider SGX market. Each article has its own page, and beside it sits a That week in numbers panel — the actual moves and results filings for the week being discussed, computed from the same price data that feeds the calendars, so you can check the commentary against the figures rather than take it on trust.

Glossary defines the announcement terms you will meet on the calendars — book closure date, ex-dividend date, scrip dividend, business trust, trading halt and the rest — each with the source it came from.

The AI summariser

Upload an annual report or AGM minutes as a PDF — or several related PDFs to be combined into one summary — and get back a structured summary in seconds: key figures, dividends, outlook, risks and governance. You can download it as a Word document. US filings can be summarised straight from an NYSE, Nasdaq or Cboe company page without downloading anything. Your summaries are private to your account — see Terms §5a. Registration includes one free summary. The summary is a reading aid, not a verdict — check anything you plan to act on against the report itself.

A sensible approach

• Start by picking a good stock based on reported company results and the economic outlook.
• Use this website for timing a purchase after you have decided, monitoring a stock you own, spotting announcements for deeper investigation, or practise paper trading and monitoring a diversified portfolio without using real money in the trades.
• An alternative way to start is to pick stocks from the top movers based on doing a technical commentary on them, before checking their reported company results.
• If you can't stop worrying, just invest in an ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) like the STI (Straits Times Index) instead, for better diversification to spread the risk.
• Under normal circumstances, after you have set aside enough for an emergency fund of several months to one year, you can start setting aside money for investing.
• After you have chosen your stock to invest in and a time to buy or sell the stock, pick a low cost e-broker and do your trade there.

Nothing here is a recommendation, scoring or rating. Always verify against the original SGX or SEC filings before making any investment decision.