RoostAlert
Signal. Not noise.
RoostAlert is a free market intelligence dashboard built for investors who want signal, not noise. It shows leading economic indicators, S&P 500 movers, insider trading activity, and market-moving news all in one place, updated throughout the trading day.
No subscriptions. No ads. No stock picks. Just data.
Most market dashboards are built to keep you glued to the screen. Flashing numbers, breathless commentary, breaking alerts on things that don't matter. RoostAlert takes the opposite approach.
The core philosophy behind RoostPoint is that at least 95% of your portfolio should be boring index funds that you never touch. But if you are feeling risky and want to take a small informed investment or 2 with the other 5%, you should know what the market health indicators are saying, what insiders are doing, and what is moving today.
That's what this is for.
All data sourced from publicly available information:
· SEC EDGAR - Insider trade filings (Form 4)
· Yahoo Finance - Market data and prices
· CNN Fear & Greed Index - Market sentiment
· S&P 500 constituents - Top movers universe
The dashboard throws a lot of numbers at you. Here's what each one actually means and how much weight to put on it.
Fear & Greed (CNN): A 0 to 100 score built from seven market indicators, not a mood ring. Below 25 is Extreme Fear. Above 75 is Extreme Greed. Some people use it backward on purpose, buying when everyone else is scared. That works until it doesn't. Extremes can sit there for weeks before anything happens.
VIX (Volatility): Wall Street calls it the fear gauge. It rises when stocks fall, especially fast. Under 15 is calm. Over 30 is the kind of day that gets a headline. It tells you how nervous the market is right now, not what happens tomorrow.
10Y Treasury Rate: The number that quietly sets your mortgage rate, your credit card APR, and your car loan. Climbing means borrowing gets more expensive everywhere, not just for the government. Falling usually means money running scared into something safe.
VTI 50/200 SMA (Golden Cross / Death Cross): A Golden Cross means the 50 day average price sits above the 200 day average. Death Cross means the opposite. Wall Street loves these names. Just know this: by the time you see one, the trend already happened. It confirms, it doesn't predict.
HYG vs IEF (Credit Spread): HYG holds junk bonds. IEF holds safe government debt. When investors start doubting companies can actually pay back what they owe, they dump the junk bonds and buy the safe ones. That shows up here first, often before it shows up in stock prices. One day's reading is noise. Watch the line, not the number.
Stock/Bond Divergence: Stocks and bond yields usually move in opposite directions. When they climb together instead, that's two different groups of investors disagreeing about what's actually going on in the economy. It doesn't tell you who's right. It tells you to pay attention.
DXY (Dollar Index): How strong the dollar is against a basket of other currencies. A stronger dollar usually means cheaper imports and more pressure on commodities and companies that do a lot of business overseas.
Gold: What people buy when they don't trust anything else, including each other's currencies. It tends to move on real fear, not the everyday kind.
WTI (Oil): The oil price. It shows up at the gas pump eventually, but also in shipping, plastics, and pretty much anything that gets manufactured or moved.
BTC (Bitcoin): Despite the "digital gold" pitch, it usually trades like a high risk tech stock, not a safe haven. Don't expect it to protect you on a bad day for stocks.
Market Breadth: How many of the 11 market sectors are green today, out of 11. A market that's up because two sectors are carrying it is a weaker story than one where everything's rising together.
Insider Buy/Sell Ratio: See "About the Insider Trading Data" below for the full breakdown. Short version: insiders sell far more dollar volume than they buy, almost always. That's routine, not a warning sign. What actually matters is the ratio changing, not where it sits on any given day.
The insider buys and sells shown on the dashboard come from SEC Form 4 filings, which corporate insiders are required to submit within two business days of any transaction involving their company's stock. The data is pulled directly from the SEC EDGAR public database.
What the dashboard shows is the biggest buyers and sellers by total dollar value over the last 45 days, grouped by company. Multiple transactions by different insiders at the same company are combined into a single row.
BEFORE reading too much into it:
· Form 4 covers all insider transactions, not just open market purchases and sales. That means the numbers can include stock option exercises, restricted stock award vesting, and shares acquired through employee stock purchase plans. These are not the same as an executive writing a personal check to buy shares.
· On the sell side, many large insider sales are executed under pre-scheduled 10b5-1 trading plans. These are set up months in advance and aren't necessarily a signal that the insider is bearish on the company.
· The most meaningful signal in insider data is typically a cluster of open market purchases by multiple insiders at the same company, with no offsetting sales. That's someone putting their own money in at current prices with no pre-arrangement.
RoostAlert is for informational purposes only. Nothing on this site constitutes financial advice, investment recommendations, or solicitation to buy or sell securities. Insider trade data sourced from SEC EDGAR public filings. Always do your own research. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Not affiliated with the SEC or any government agency.
RoostAlert is a RoostPoint LLC project. RoostPoint covers personal finance, Texas electricity, and insurance - without the marketing spin. Same philosophy, different data.
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