Markets, in the time you actually have.
Built for analysts who care about doing this well but can only give it an hour or two a week. ArcAlpha condenses the market into a single structured read so you stay current without losing your weekends.
What’s hard from where you’re standing
Four patterns that show up for almost everyone trying to do this well with a full-time job.
The challenge
The day ends, the market doesn’t
You finish work at 7pm. The setups you spot at 9pm are gone by morning, and the platforms screaming at you don’t know what you actually care about.
The challenge
The information firehose
Twenty browser tabs, three newsletters, two podcasts, and a Discord. None of it is structured around your style or your timeframe. None of it tells you what to ignore.
The challenge
The full-time asymmetry
You’re competing for the same opportunities as people watching every tick. The honest answer isn’t to try harder than them — it’s to fight a different fight.
The challenge
The ‘built for busy people’ dilution
Most tools marketed at working professionals are watered-down versions of the real thing. You don’t want a junior toolkit. You want the institutional read, delivered well.
How ArcAlpha fits a working week
The platform is built so the watching happens automatically. Your hour or two is review and decision time — not data-gathering time.
The Daily Brief
A five-minute structured read of the market built around the Three Lenses — price action, options flow, and fundamentals. Skim it with coffee. You walk into the week already current.
Sector regime map
See where money is rotating without scanning every stock. The regime tells you which industries are leading, which are reversing, and which are quiet — updated daily.
Watchlist + alerts
Narrow the universe to twenty or thirty names that fit your style. ArcAlpha watches them so you don’t have to — you get pinged when something develops, not when something twitches.
Setup snapshots
When an alert fires, the full institutional read appears in one frame: price action, options flow context, fundamentals, and the historical pattern. No spelunking required.
A week in the platform
Roughly two hours of your attention, five days of the platform doing the watching.
Weekend Brief. Sector regime check. Tune the watchlist for the week ahead. Note one or two themes you’re watching.
Skim the Daily Brief. Check overnight alerts on the watchlist. Bookmark anything worth studying later.
Same rhythm — brief, alerts, watchlist. By now you have a sense of which themes are holding.
Week-in-review. Look at how the regime evolved, what fired, what didn’t. Plan next week’s focus.
The platform is doing the watching. You’re at work, with your family, asleep.
Start with these lessons
Four short reads from the education library that build the fastest foundation for a working schedule.
Which tier fits a working schedule
Alpha — $79/mo
Alpha gives you the unlimited scanner, full Alpha% setup strength scores, per-stock fundamentals, and multi-persona analysis. It is the tier most working professionals settle on once they want a real read on every name they look at — without the institutional-flow workspace they don’t need at this volume.
See full pricingIf you study institutional flow as a primary subject, Architect ($149/mo) adds the dedicated ArcFlow workspace. Explorer (free) exists if you want to try the Daily Brief first — though the full platform value lives at Alpha.
Questions we hear most
How is ArcAlpha different from other trading platforms?
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Three things, especially for someone with a working schedule. First, ArcAlpha is built by a trader, not a tech team that has never traded — so it maps the actual analyst workflow rather than presenting disconnected metrics on a dashboard. Second, most platforms cover one slice — technicals, or options flow, or fundamentals — and leave you to assemble the picture. ArcAlpha integrates all three lenses plus sector regime and earnings intelligence into a single coherent read on every stock. Third, this is a tool, not a service — no live chat rooms, no signal services, no gurus. When you only have an hour or two a week, the integrated read is what makes the time matter.
Can I really stay current on markets with just an hour or two a week?
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Yes, if the platform does most of the watching for you. ArcAlpha runs continuously, scoring setups across more than 11,700 US equities and surfacing only the ones that warrant attention. Your hour or two becomes review and decision time, not data-gathering time.
Do I need to learn options to get value from ArcAlpha?
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No. Options flow is one of three lenses ArcAlpha uses to read a stock — alongside price action and fundamentals. You can absorb what the flow data is showing without ever trading an option yourself. Many users treat it purely as an institutional-positioning signal that informs their equity decisions.
What is the minimum time investment to get started?
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Around thirty minutes a week is enough to build a reading routine. Most users settle into one to two hours per week once they identify which lenses matter most for their style.
Which tier should I start with?
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Alpha ($79/mo) is the right starting point for most working professionals. It gives you the full platform — unlimited scanner, Alpha% setup strength scores, per-stock fundamentals, and multi-persona analysis — which is what makes the time investment worthwhile when you only have an hour or two a week. Explorer (free) exists as a free entry point if you want to try the Daily Brief first, but you won’t see the full platform from there.
Can I share the analysis with a financial advisor or accountability partner?
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ArcAlpha is an educational market intelligence platform, not a personalized advice service. The same analysis is generated for every user, so sharing what you see with an advisor or partner is straightforward.
I’m a high-income specialist (physician, attorney). Is this different for me?
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The platform and the data are identical for everyone — ArcAlpha does not personalize analysis based on income, account size, or profession. What tends to differ for specialists is the role markets play in their week: a smaller time budget, a longer time horizon, and a stronger preference for fundamentals and regime context over short-term tactics.
See the full platform from day one
Alpha gives you the unlimited scanner, Alpha% setup strength, fundamentals, and multi-persona analysis — the full read that makes one or two hours a week actually worth it.