Honesty
Software you trade with is only worth trusting if it's honest — including about itself. This page is the complete account of how TickAhead works, where its data comes from, and the lines we will not cross.
Your privacy, by architecture
- What you watch lives in your browser. Your watchlists and settings are stored locally on your own device. They are never uploaded, and there is no analytics or tracking of any kind inside the product.
- This website counts visits; it does not follow people. On these marketing pages we use Cloudflare’s privacy-first web analytics — no cookies, no fingerprinting, nothing shared with an advertising network — plus our own count of a few things that tell us whether the site works: pages viewed, which plan a visitor clicked, and which campaign link brought them. We store those as counts, with no visitor identifier of any kind, so we can tell you how many people came from a given post and not who any of them were. There is no such tracking in the product itself, and no cookie banner here because nothing we do requires one.
- Your account is an email and a license key — that's the entire record we hold about you, plus the subscription status Stripe gives us. We know whether you've paid. We don't know what you watch.
- Your data exports to one file you own — and imports back, on any machine. If your subscription lapses, the product switches off, but your watchlists stay readable and exportable, forever. We gate features, never your data.
- We couldn't read your lists if we wanted to. If we ever offer optional sync, it will be end-to-end encrypted — built so that we still can't.
Where the data comes from
Plainly: the prices are free public data, refreshed about once an hour. They are delayed, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. That is honest for what this does — noticing that a stock has drifted to the edge of its range is a judgement measured in days and weeks, not seconds. It is the wrong tool for timing an entry, and we would rather say so here than let you find out with money on the line.
| Data | Source | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Stock prices | Free public market data, fetched hourly by our server and cached | Delayed by up to an hour. Your device reads our cache, never the source — so one person's use can never slow the service for anyone else. |
| Timeframes | Daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly closes | The four the readings are built from. No intraday data — the product doesn't use it, so we don't collect it. |
| Company names | The SEC's public company register | Official and public, parsed directly, so a ticker shows the right name. |
| The readings | Arithmetic, on your device | A Bollinger Band is a 20-period average and a standard deviation. We show where price sits between the bands. You could check it in a spreadsheet — and we'd rather you did. |
| Your watchlists | Yours | Stored on your device. We don't need to know what you watch, so we don't keep it. |
Things we will never do
- Sell trade signals or predictions. TickAhead reports a condition — where price sits in its own range — and stops there. It does not tell you what to buy, and it never pretends to know what happens next.
- Sell or mine your data. What you choose to watch is private.
- Use dark patterns. No fake urgency, no engagement bait, no notification spam. We optimize for your results, not your screen-time — and that survives any business model.
- Hold your data hostage. A lapsed subscription switches the product off — but your watchlists stay readable and exportable, always.
- Lock you in. No contracts and no cancellation runaround — cancel anytime, keep access to the end of the period you've paid for.
Affiliate disclosure
Some links in the product's Resources section, and the referral link optionally attached to anything you share, may earn TickAhead a commission at no cost to you. This never influences the data or content shown anywhere in the product — and you can turn the share link off in Settings.
We also run our own affiliate program: people who refer TickAhead earn a commission on subscriptions they bring in, at no extra cost to the buyer, and the price is exactly the same whether or not you arrive through a referral link. Our affiliates agree to promote TickAhead honestly — no spam, and no income, profit, or performance promises (we don't make those, and neither may they). Full rules are in the affiliate terms.
Disclaimer
- Not financial advice. Nothing in TickAhead — the band readings, the timeframe agreement, or anything the scanner surfaces — is investment advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation to buy or sell any security. A stock sitting at the edge of its range is a description of the past, not a forecast; it can stay there, or go further, for a long time.
- Past performance does not predict future results. Win rates and patterns shown are descriptive, not predictive.
- Trading is risky. You can lose money, including more than you put in if you use leverage. Only risk capital you can afford to lose.
- Do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor before making trading decisions.
- No liability. TickAhead assumes no responsibility for trading losses, missed opportunities, or decisions made using the product.
- The data is delayed and free. It may be incomplete or wrong, and the feed may be interrupted at any time. Never act on a reading without checking the price somewhere authoritative first.
Questions
Ask us anything: contact@tickahead.com. The product also has a built-in support assistant.