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4 Finding your way around

The app frame around the Channels page: top bar above, the side menu down the left, the page content beside it.
The frame every page lives in: top bar above, menu on the left, the page itself beside it — here around Channels.

Every page has the same two pieces of furniture: a sidebar down the left and a bar across the top. Neither ever changes, so once you know them you know how to reach everything.

The market clock

To the right of the bell is the New York time and the state of the US stock market: a green dot while it is open, blue while it is shut, and how long until that changes — so "opens in 2h 14m" during the morning, "closes in 40m" late in the session. Hover it for the whole sentence.

It knows about weekends and about the public holidays the market closes for, including the two half-days that end at 13:00 — the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. It does not know about an unscheduled closure, which is rare and announced in advance; on such a day the clock would read open.

On a phone

Below about 760 pixels wide the layout changes. Five destinations — Home, Chart, Portfolio, Feed and Channels — move to a bar along the bottom of the screen, where a thumb can reach them. Channels is there rather than News because a channel is where a conversation is waiting for you, while News is somewhere you go once you have decided to read. Everything else, News included, is behind the ☰ button at the top left, which slides the same menu in from the side. Tap outside it, press Esc, or go anywhere at all and it closes itself.

It is the same menu and the same pages as on a computer, not a reduced version — nothing is missing, it is only arranged for a narrow screen. The chart and the heatmap still want a larger one to be comfortable.

Backer badges

People who backed the crowdfunding campaign carry a small badge beside their name — on their profile, and on everything they post. There are five: Early Believer, Founding Member, Founding Creator, Design Partner and Patron. Each has its own shape as well as its own colour, so they can be told apart without relying on colour at all.

A badge buys nothing. Every tool in the app is free for everyone, backers included — it only says somebody helped pay for the place to exist before it was easy. It is awarded by an administrator and cannot be set by the person wearing it.

The footer

Every public page ends with the same footer: five columns listing every tool SigniBull offers — markets, your money, community, learning and company — plus links to our social accounts. It is the fastest way to find a surface you have not opened yet.

Looking around without an account

On the sign-in page, Continue as a guest opens SigniBull without an account. A short message first says exactly what is open. Economic reports, Treasury yields, company financials from SEC filings, the whole Academy, the public stock analyses and this guide are open in full. Screens built on licensed market data — prices, charts, the heatmap, sectors, ETFs, news and the earnings calendar — open in their own layout with the figures blurred, because our data licences let us show them to members only. Everything that would be yours — a portfolio, watchlists, alerts, the community — needs a free account.

A GUEST tag sits in the top bar with Sign in and Create account beside it, with a language switch and the light/dark toggle, and What guests can see above every screen reopens the message. Nothing you do as a guest is saved.

4.1 The guided tour

The first time you sign in on a browser, the app offers a short guided tour: the page dims, a spotlight moves around the frame, and a card beside each stop says what lives there — the groups on the rail down the left, the search box up top. Eight stops, about a minute.

  • Next and Back move between stops; Enter and the arrow keys do the same.
  • Skip tour or Esc ends it at any point. Nothing is lost — every stop is a place you can simply go.
  • It shows itself once per browser. Sign in on a new device and you get one showing there too.

Want it again? ⚙ Settings → Guided tour → Take the tour replays it whenever you like. On a phone the tour is shorter: it skips the stops that point at the desktop menu and keeps the ones that exist on the small screen.

4.3 The top bar

The logo
Clicking it goes Home from anywhere.
The search box
A door rather than a field. Click it, or press Ctrl K from anywhere in the app (⌘ K on a Mac), and a panel opens over the page.

Type a few letters of any page and it appears: three letters of “bonds” reaches Bonds, and the rest of that band of the menu comes with it — somebody looking for one market page usually wants the area rather than the single page they happened to remember. Each result says which band it lives in, so the panel teaches the menu while you use it.

Type a ticker instead and it offers that symbol’s chart, from the same symbol search it has always used. ↑ ↓ move through the list, Enter goes, and Esc closes it and puts your cursor back where it was. With nothing typed it offers a few places worth knowing about, so it is never a dead end.

The plain symbol box is still there in the seven other places you have to name a symbol — the chart rail, watchlists, the portfolio, the order ticket, alerts, the earnings hub and Home — and behaves identically each time.
What's new
A four-pointed star, immediately left of the bell — the same mark as Release notes at the bottom of the left menu, because the two lead to the same material. It fills with a soft blue when something has changed since you were last here. Click it for the short version — a few bullets on what you gained — and Read the full note → for the whole entry in Release notes, the last entry in the left menu. It goes quiet once you have opened it, and it stays in the bar afterwards so you can go back to it. The first time you ever sign in it shows nothing: a history of changes to a product you have never used is not news.
The bell
An outline when there is nothing waiting; filled, with a red dot, when there is. The dot counts unread notifications and unread direct messages together. Clicking it opens Alerts & notifications.
☾ / ☀
Switches between the dark and light themes immediately. Remembered per browser.
Your name and picture
Opens a small menu with My profile and Sign out.

4.4 Things that work the same everywhere

  • Esc closes whatever is open on top — a dialog, the symbol search dropdown, an indicator menu, a profile card.
  • Clicking outside a dialog closes it too, as does its ✕.
  • A ? or i next to a label explains that control where a longer label would not fit. They are worth clicking; several of them cover rules you would otherwise have to learn by being surprised.
  • Any ticker symbol shown anywhere is clickable and opens its chart.
  • Clicking somebody's name on a post opens a small card with who they are, a Follow button and a link to their full profile.
  • A View all → link on a summary card opens the full page that card is a preview of.

4.5 SigniBull on your phone

There are native apps for iPhone and Android, built from the same account and the same data as this website. Sign in with the email and password you already use — nothing is separate, and nothing needs importing.

They carry the whole product, not a cut-down version: your portfolio and holdings with every purchase behind each position, charts and indicators, the heatmap, sectors, ETFs, bonds, economic reports, the earnings hub, the newspaper, written analyses, the Academy, the feed, Top Bulls, friends and messages, and price alerts.

Two things work differently on a phone

  • Simple and Advanced. A phone bar holds four icons, not fifteen. Simple mode gives you Portfolio, Feed, Top Bulls and Settings and nothing to configure; Advanced adds a More button with everything else behind it, and lets you choose which four sit on the bar. The switch is in Settings.
  • Push notifications arrive with the store release. Until then a fired alert reaches your notification inbox, exactly as it does here.
Android today, iPhone in review. Android is available now as a direct download, not yet on Google Play: open Settings and use the QR code or Open the download page (or go to signibull.com/android on the phone), download the file, and when the phone asks, allow installs from that source in its settings. iPhone: the app has been submitted to the App Store and is in Apple's review; we expect it in the coming days and will say so here the day it is approved. Meanwhile on any phone: this website installs to your home screen from the browser — Add to Home Screen on iPhone, Install app on Android — with no download.