Transparency about how StockSetupLists is built, funded, and where the conflicts are.

StockSetupLists is an informational and educational tool. It is not investment advice, a recommendation to buy or sell any security, or a substitute for a licensed financial professional. See our Terms of Service for the full disclaimer.

StockSetupLists is operated by Zero Vector Apps LLC. The Service is funded by paid subscriptions to its premium features. We do not accept payment from issuers, brokers, exchanges, or any other party in exchange for content placement or favorable treatment of a specific security. We do not run a brokerage, manage client money, or earn commissions on trades.

A subscription-funded service has structural incentives that a user should understand:

• 100% algorithmic, no editorial curation. Subscription products can be tempted to optimize for daily-active use rather than for honest analysis. Unlike newsletters, analyst services, or influencer-driven recommendations, StockSetupLists has no human editor picking which tickers feature, no "pick of the day," and no curated watchlist. Every setup published is found by a fixed algorithm running against daily price and volume data. The list size is driven by algorithmic quality thresholds, not by an engagement target — even when that means a short list, an unremarkable one, or names the user has never heard of. The AI digest's system prompt is also frozen (see below) so it cannot be tuned for tone, sentiment, or engagement without a deliberate, dated change.
• Personnel positions. Personnel involved in building or operating the Service may hold positions in securities discussed by the Service. All content is generated algorithmically before any individual review, and no one associated with the Service trades ahead of publication on the basis of pre-publication output.
• Vendor relationships. The Service uses third-party vendors for market data, AI inference, cloud hosting, authentication, and payment processing. We pay these vendors at standard commercial rates. None of these relationships influence which securities appear on the list or how they are scored.

The market digest is generated by a large language model. Four things worth knowing:

• Not research, not analyst opinion. The digest is generated to summarize what the algorithm found that day. It is not investment research, not an analyst opinion, and not a recommendation . It does not reflect human editorial judgment about any security and should not be read as if it did.
• Frozen system prompt. The instructions given to the model are byte-stable. They are not adjusted day-to-day to tune the digest's tone, sentiment, or engagement characteristics. Any change is a deliberate, source-controlled edit.
• Guardrails. The system prompt explicitly forbids the model from referencing internal quality thresholds, inventing securities not in its input, or framing the digest as advice. The output is checked against these constraints before publication.
• Errors are possible. Despite the guardrails, AI-generated text can still contain factual mistakes, omissions, stale references, or hallucinated detail. Verify any specific claim before acting on it.

Price and reference data are licensed from a third-party market data provider. Data feeds occasionally have gaps, corrections, or adjustments that can affect a given day's output. The Service does not independently verify every data point.

See Methodology for how to interpret the quality score and what it does (and does not) measure.

We retain a record of each day's published output so we can explain or substantiate a past day's results if asked.