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One sentence, built from real signals already on the platform — never a template, never a recommendation
"Why It Screened" is a sentence Finmagine builds fresh for a stock from signals you could otherwise only get by opening Conviction Ranking, Sector RRG, the Earnings Catalyst Score, and the Screener Backtest panel separately and combining them yourself. It never adds a new fact of its own — it just states, in plain language, which of the platform's existing signals are actually true for that stock right now. This guide covers how the sentence is assembled, what each part means, where it appears, and why you won't see one on every stock.
Finmagine already computes dozens of independent signals for every stock — Conviction Ranking's multi-scan match count, Sector RRG quadrant and trail direction, the Earnings Catalyst Score, RS Rating, promoter pledging, valuation vs. trading history, and the Screener Backtest win rate, among others. Historically, seeing the full picture for one stock meant opening several different pages and mentally combining them yourself.
"Why It Screened" does that combination for you, automatically, in one sentence — built fresh from whichever of those signals are actually true for that specific stock, in that specific combination. It never invents a new fact and never uses a fixed template; two different stocks with different signal combinations will read differently, on purpose.
Every sentence is built the same way, in the same order, though any given stock may not have all four parts:
| Part | What it is |
|---|---|
| Lead | The single strongest signal, chosen from a fixed priority order and only used if it clears its own threshold (e.g. Sector RRG only leads if the sector is genuinely in the Leading quadrant). If nothing clears the bar, the sentence opens with a neutral "notable setup" instead of overstating a weak signal. |
| Supporting facts | Up to three more real, currently-true facts, each individually strong enough to be worth mentioning — a weak or negative reading (e.g. a bottom-decile RS Rating, or a sector in the Weakening quadrant) is never cited as if it were positive evidence. |
| Caution | At most one, chosen from whichever risk is most material for that stock: heavy promoter pledging, weak cash conversion behind a strong earnings score, a valuation that looks stretched relative to its own trading history, a soft Screener Backtest win rate, or (US stocks) a cluster of insider selling. Omitted entirely if nothing material applies. |
| Label | A classification, never a strength or quality word: Broad signal stack (3+ signals, no caution), Partial signal stack (2 signals, no caution), Mixed signal stack (2+ signals plus a caution), or hidden entirely if there's only 0-1 signal (see Section 3). |
Two separate reasons a stock might not have one:
A sentence only renders when a stock clears at least two real signals. A stock with a single lukewarm signal and nothing else — say, an RS Rating of 61 and nothing more — genuinely doesn't have much of a "why" to tell yet, so no sentence is shown rather than stretching one thin fact into a full sentence.
Conviction Ranking, RS Momentum, RS-Before-Price, and the individual Stock Analysis page all read the exact same thing: the sentence Finmagine computed overnight for stocks that matched at least one screener preset that day. If a stock didn't screen anywhere, it has no sentence on any of these pages — including Stock Analysis. This is deliberate: a sentence only ever describes a stock that actually cleared a real screening gate, never one computed from scratch just because you happened to search that ticker.
Underneath every sentence, small chips name which modules fed into it — for example RS Rating, RRG, ECS, Backtest — so you know exactly where each part of the sentence came from and can click through to that module for the full picture.
A "Sources" link expands to show the actual values behind the sentence, not just the module names — e.g. RS Rating 84 · Energy in Leading quadrant · ECS 78 · Backtest win rate 52%. The sentence is the plain-language story; the Sources row is the audit trail.
"Why It Screened" is a description of currently-true facts, not investment advice:
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