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The Free Stock-Research Workflow: Screen, Analyze, and Track Every Decision

The Intrinsiqq Team
SEC-data stock analysis · June 18, 2026
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Most people research stocks across a dozen open tabs: one for screening, one for the financials, one for valuation, and another to remember why they even bought. It is slow, and it is easy to lose the thread. Here is a simple workflow built around three jobs, screen, analyze, and track, with a tool worth using for each.

1. Screen for candidates

Screening is where most workflows start, and the tool you pick quietly decides what kind of investor you become. Active traders lean on technical screeners built around charts, relative strength, and momentum. If you invest on fundamentals rather than price action, you want a different lens: quality, valuation, and balance-sheet health.

That is what we built Intrinsiqq for. It screens US stocks on the numbers that matter to a long-term investor, valuation multiples, return on capital, and dividend safety, computed straight from SEC filings, for free, with no account.

2. Analyze and value

A screen gives you a shortlist. The real work is deciding whether a company is actually good and actually cheap. This is the core of Intrinsiqq: every stock gets a transparent quality score, a three-scenario discounted cash flow plus a reverse DCF that shows what the current price already assumes, and a full dividend analysis, all sourced from the filings with the methodology shown so you can check the math. No black box, no per-report paywall.

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Quality score, three-scenario DCF, and dividend safety, pre-loaded from SEC filings.

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3. Track and review your decisions

This is the step almost everyone skips, and the one that compounds the most: writing down why you bought, what you expected, and what actually happened. Without it you repeat the same mistakes and never learn from the wins. For this, a dedicated journal beats a spreadsheet. Trade Tracs is a clean option built for exactly this: logging trades, reviewing your reasoning, and turning your own history into a feedback loop.

If you also trade actively, you have probably seen all-in-one technical platforms like Deepvue. They are powerful for finding and timing trades, but their focus is charts and scanning, not the discipline of reviewing what you did and why. Trade Tracs comes at it from the other side, journaling and trade review first:

Trade TracsDeepvue
FocusJournaling & trade reviewCharts, screening & scanning
Helps youLearn from your own track recordFind and time entries
Built forReviewing decisions, building disciplineActive technical trading

Pairing honest journaling with fundamental research is one of the highest-leverage habits an investor can build.

The workflow, in one line

Screen on fundamentals (Intrinsiqq), analyze and value (Intrinsiqq), then journal and review every decision (Trade Tracs). Two of the three are free, and all three take minutes once they are part of your routine.

Frequently asked questions

Do you need to pay for a stock screener?+

Not for fundamental research. Technical-trading suites that offer charting, relative-strength, and momentum scans are typically paid and aimed at active traders. But screening stocks on fundamentals, valuation, quality, and dividend safety, can be done for free. Intrinsiqq, for example, screens US stocks on those metrics straight from SEC filings with no account required. Which one you need depends on whether you trade on price action or invest on the underlying business.

What does a good stock-research workflow look like?+

A simple, repeatable workflow has three jobs. First, screen to build a shortlist of candidates that fit your criteria. Second, analyze and value each one to decide whether the business is actually high quality and reasonably priced, using tools like a quality score, a discounted cash flow, and a dividend-safety check. Third, journal your decisions: write down why you bought, what you expected, and what actually happened, so you can review and improve over time. The third step is the one most investors skip and the one that compounds the most.

Why keep an investing journal?+

A journal turns your own track record into a feedback loop. By recording your reasoning at the time of each decision, what you expected and why, you can later compare it against what actually happened and learn from both your mistakes and your wins. A dedicated journaling tool makes this easier than a spreadsheet by structuring entries and reviews. Without a journal, it is easy to misremember your reasoning and repeat the same errors.

The Intrinsiqq TeamSEC-data stock analysis

Intrinsiqq builds free stock analysis from official SEC EDGAR filings: quality scores, DCF fair value, dividend safety, and 10 years of financials for 8,000+ US companies. Every number is computed from primary filings and documented in full on our methodology page, not from third-party estimates. Read the methodology →

Intrinsiqq is a research tool, not investment advice. Figures are computed from public SEC EDGAR filings; stock prices are delayed. Always do your own research before making any investment decision. Product names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners; Intrinsiqq is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

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