Start Here: How to Use Signal8 Academy

What Signal8 Academy is

Signal8 Academy is a set of free, plain-English guides to the documents and mechanics behind US stocks. The guides explain concepts with worked numbers, use hypothetical companies unless a real filing is cited, and end by showing where to see the idea in live data on Signal8. Nothing here is investment advice.

Pick a path

"I keep getting caught by surprise offerings"

Start with the dilution track. Read What Is Dilution? first, then work through the rest of Dilution & Toxic Financing in order. Along the way you will meet terms like ATM offering and warrant overhang.

"I want to read SEC filings myself"

Go to Reading SEC Filings. It covers what each form is for and where the important sentences hide.

"I want to understand halts, splits, short interest and float"

Go to Market Structure. It also explains how congressional trading disclosures work.

"I want to get more out of Signal8"

Go to Using Signal8 for walkthroughs of research pages, screeners, alerts, the Terminal, and the API and MCP server.

Look up a term

Every guide links its terms to the glossary. Hover a dotted-underlined word in any guide for a one-line definition, or click it for the full entry.