What Is Catalyst Terminal? A Free Research Workstation

What Is Catalyst Terminal? A Free Research Workstation

Most market software sells you data and leaves the analysis to you. Catalyst Terminal, the flagship workstation inside MarketPicks.ai — https://marketpicks.ai/terminal, runs the other way: it does the dissection first and hands you the read on a single screen. It is free to use, it runs in a browser, and it is built for research — not for telling you what to buy.

Here is what it actually does.

One command bar, six labeled panels

It is a full-viewport workstation — one screen, one command bar, no menu archaeology. You type a symbol and everything the engine knows about that symbol lands in front of you. Under the bar sit six labeled function keys, shown on screen and wired as real hotkeys:

• F1 AUTOPSY — the eight-section company dissection. • F2 RADAR & CHAINS — the source-issue radar plus supplier relationships. • F3 SCENARIOS — bull, base, and bear paths. • F4 FORENSIC — forensic scoring detail. • F5 MOVE — the movement desk: price, returns, trend, range, volatility, written in plain English. • F6 SUPPLY — the supplier-chain propagation map.

Press `/` to jump back to the command bar. Digits 1–6 switch panels too, for keyboards and operating systems that grab the F-keys first.

The terminal also routes by asset class. Equities get the full engine treatment. Crypto, commodities, futures, and world markets route to their own live desks with real prices — and any symbol the engine has not dissected says so honestly instead of inventing a report for it.

The eight-section autopsy, with receipts

The core of the product is a forensic company autopsy scored across eight sections: identity and business model, revenue driver tree, margin and unit economics, customer and supplier concentration, competitive positioning, financial health, bull/base/bear asymmetry, and the source-issue radar.

The part worth caring about is the receipts discipline. Every claim in the autopsy traces back to the filing it came from — the exact sentence, the exact document, a link you can open. If the engine cannot find a number, it records a coverage gap and caps the score rather than filling the hole with a plausible guess. That single rule is why the tool is worth reading at all: you can audit it.

Feed the same discipline into the other panels and you get the rest of the workstation. The supplier-chain map pulls customer and supplier concentration straight from 10-K and 20-F text — no quote, no edge, sentence included. The source-issue radar watches for early warning signals and refuses to let a single noisy indicator demolish an otherwise healthy score without corroboration. Scenarios come with a falsifier and an observation window attached to each branch: what would prove it wrong, and by when.

Congressional trades, per ticker

Catalyst Terminal also tracks congressional stock disclosures — the periodic reports members of Congress are required to file under the STOCK Act. That record is public by law, and the terminal organizes it per ticker, so you can ask the question a retail investor actually has: who disclosed a transaction in this name, and when? Amount ranges are shown exactly as disclosed, because exact position sizes are never public.

Ask the engine

Type a question in plain English at `/ask`. The answer is grounded in live data rather than a language model's improvisation — and when there is no read to give, it stays quiet instead of manufacturing one.

Who it is for, and why free

It is built for individual investors, students of markets, journalists, and anyone who wants filing-level rigor without an institutional seat. The site is supported by advertising rather than subscriptions, which is why there is no trial wall, no credit card, and no seat fee.

It is also honest about its limits: quotes are near-real-time rather than a licensed consolidated feed, the forensic autopsy runs nightly over its core universe, and AI output can be wrong.

MarketPicks.ai is a research tool. Nothing here is financial advice, and there are no guaranteed returns. Do your own work, and talk to a licensed professional before you act on anything you read.

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About the author: by MarketPicks — the editorial team behind MarketPicks.ai and Placebets.ai, a family of free research tools built on one rule: every claim carries a receipt you can open yourself.

This research note is not financial advice. It is meant to help readers build a watchlist, compare market conditions, and think through risk before making independent decisions.